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Parent topics
- United States cabinet [r]: The most senior committee of the executive branch of the United States government. [e]
- U.S. foreign policy [r]: The foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775. [e]
Subtopics
Secretaries and other leaders
- Dean Acheson [r]: An American diplomat (1893-1971) primarily responsible for shaping foreign policy during the Truman administration and early Cold War. [e]
- Madeleine Albright [r]: Principal, The Albright Group LLC; Director, Council on Foreign Relations; Director, Aspen Institute; Former U.S. Secretary of State [e]
- John Quincy Adams [r]: (1767-1848) Sixth U.S. President (from 1825 to 1829), and son of President John Adams. [e]
- James G. Blaine [r]: Republican presidential candidate in 1884; politician of the American Civil War, Reconstruction and Gilded Age eras. [e]
- John C. Calhoun [r]: (1782 – 1850) American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina; a strong advocate of southern state's rights and a defender of the institution of slavery. [e]
- Henry Clay [r]: (1777-1852) American Whig Party leader, 3-time failed presidential candidate, and broker of North/South compromises that held the Union together. [e]
- Hillary Clinton [r]: U.S. Secretary of State (2009-2013); Senator for New York (2001-2009); U.S. presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, 2016 (contender, 2008); former First Lady (born 1947). [e]
- John Foster Dulles [r]: U.S. Secretary of State during most of the Eisenhower administration; adamant about containment of, rather than compromise with, Communists. Allen Dulles was his brother and Director of Central Intelligence [e]
- John Hay [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Evans Hughes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cordell Hull [r]: (1871-1955) American attorney, political leader and diplomat; longest tenure as U.S. Secretary of State (1933-1944); especially interested in international organizations and received Nobel Peace Prize for contributions there; negotiated to avert World War Two in the Pacific [e]
- Thomas Jefferson [r]: (1743-1826) Third U.S. President (from 1801 to 1809), first U.S. Secretary of State (from 1789 to 1793), author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia. [e]
- Henry Kissinger [r]: (1923—) American academic, diplomat, and simultaneously Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration; promoted realism (foreign policy) and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War; Director, Atlantic Council [e]
- James Madison [r]: (1751–1836) Fourth U.S. President (from 1809 to 1817), author of some the Federalist Papers, Secretary of State, and one of the most influential U.S. founding fathers. [e]
- George C. Marshall [r]: Army Chief of Staff (WWII), Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense (Korean War)and sponsor of the Marshall Plan. [e]
- James Monroe [r]: (1758-1831) Fifth U.S. President (from 1817 to 1825), creator of the Monroe Doctrine and a lessening of partisan tensions known as the "Era of Good Feelings." [e]
- Colin Powell [r]: A retired general in the United States Army who served in high political office, first African-American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State; minimally partisan although he considered himself a moderate Republican, not a neoconservative [e]
- Condoleeza Rice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Elihu Root [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dean Rusk [r]: United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1968 in the Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, with extensive Asian experience and a strong advocate of U.S. resistance to Communism in Southeast Asia [e]
- William Seward [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Daniel Webster [r]: Add brief definition or description
Deputy Secretaries
- Lawrence Eagleburger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Armitage [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Negroponte [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Steinberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
Under Secretary for Political Affairs
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Burns [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Ball [r]: Add brief definition or description
Counselor
Policy Planning Staff
- Robert Bowie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stephen Bosworth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Cargo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gregory Craig [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zbigniew Brzezinski [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Gordon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Haass [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Morton Halperin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Kennan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stephen Krasner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anthony Lake [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Lewis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Winston Lord [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George McGhee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Nitze [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Owen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mitchell Reiss [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peter Rodman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dennis Ross [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Walt Rostow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anne-Marie Slaughter [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gerard Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Solomon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Steinberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Sutterlin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Wolfowitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- William Bundy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Christopher R. Hill [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kurt Campbell [r]: Add brief definition or description
Near Eastern Affairs
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Counterterrorism
United States Information Agency
Diplomats
Influential think tanks
- Brookings Institution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Center for a New American Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Center for Strategic and International Studies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Council on Foreign Relations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Foreign Policy Research Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hudson Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Project for the New American Century [r]: Add brief definition or description