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    • Art and Craft of Diplomacy: Secretary of State John Kerry Faces ‘Complex Agenda’

      By Christiane Amanpour, Mary-Rose Abraham, David Miller & Brian Fudge | Around the World – Thu, Jan 31, 2013

      In her four years as the 67th Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton traveled nearly a million miles, visited 112 countries and had 1,700 meetings with world leaders. Besides a grueling travel schedule, the president’s chief foreign affairs adviser must wield all the tools of a negotiator: the art and craft of diplomacy.

      This week Clinton steps down from her post. Taking her place is Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The new secretary of state faces plenty of challenges: the crisis in Syria, Iran, North Korea, Israeli-Palestinian relations. And that’s just to name a few. So how does the craft of diplomacy help the U.S. negotiate our increasingly complex geopolitical relationships?

      In this episode of “Around the World,” Christiane speaks with R. Nicholas Burns. He served for 27 years in the U.S. foreign services, including as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008. Burns is now a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy

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    • Al Qaeda Affiliate in Africa Threatens U.S. Interests

      By Christiane Amanpour, Mary-Rose Abraham and Mark Monroy | Around the World – Thu, Jan 24, 2013

      Three Americans were among the more than three dozen foreign workers killed after a four-day hostage crisis at a BP joint-venture gas facility in Algeria. The terrorist attack is yet another sign of growing al Qaeda cells in north and west Africa, specifically al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM). A Pentagon spokesman said this affiliate of the notorious terrorist group was involved in the Algeria attack. AQIM and other radical Islamist groups pose an increasing threat to U.S. and Western interests.

      In Mali, jihadists are now being countered by French forces fighting alongside soldiers from neighboring West African countries. ABC News’ Bazi Kanani reports from Mali’s capital, Bamako, that the presence of French soldiers is a huge relief to people there. Just two weeks ago Mali’s government knew there was no way its own army could stop the advance of the jihadists who have taken over more than half of the country. But this war is just getting started and now—especially after the attack in

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    • Frenemies: U.S.-Middle East Relations Over the Centuries

      By Christiane Amanpour, Mary-Rose Abraham, David Miller & Mark Monroy | Around the World – Thu, Jan 17, 2013

      It was a little more than two years ago that a street vendor in Tunisia set himself on fire to protest a lack of job opportunities. His death sparked a people’s revolt in Tunisia that quickly spread to neighboring countries in the Middle East. And so the Arab Spring was born, igniting protests in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and Syria. As people took to the streets en masse, long-standing political regimes in many of those countries crumbled.

      In the revolutions across the Arab world, people demanded more democracy. And it left Americans wondering whether it would bring more instability, more terrorism or if it would stabilize the region -- in short, “Is the Arab Spring a threat to us?”

      The Arab Spring came a decade after 9/11, which thrust relations between America and the Muslim world into the height of crisis. But for centuries before that, the United States has had a deep relationship, a deep involvement in the Middle East and the greater Arab world. It’s been a vital relationship

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