Publishing Institution: Council of American Ambassadors / Political Geography: Europe

Author:: James P. Cain
Publication Date:: 09-2008
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Council of American Ambassadors
Abstract:: The challenges of energy availability and climate change loom ever larger for the international community, with our nation's security and the world's environment hanging in the balance. As diplomats, we must help our nation and its partners find solutions to these challenges. Part of our job is to assume the bullypulpit and enlighten others of the many things America is already doing in these areas, to overcome the global impression that America is not doing its part. But my time in Europe has convinced me that an even greater use of our diplomatic time and resources is to seek out and support innovation, collaboration and partnership between America and those abroad who are pioneering ways to lower greenhouse gas emissions, develop alternative energy resources, and increase energy efficiency.
Political Geography:: America and Europe

Author:: April H. Foley
Publication Date:: 09-2008
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Council of American Ambassadors
Abstract:: Hungary is a medium sized European country of approximately ten million people that shares with its Central European neighbors a common legacy of more than four decades of Soviet domination. Although a fully functioning democracy for nearly 20 years now, a member of NATO since 1999 and the European Union since 2004, Hungary still suffers from the heritage of communism. While the physical damage of this era has been largely eliminated, the less visible but longer lasting effects of the totalitarian period of Hungarian history persist in plaguing the economic and political life of the country to which I arrived in August 2006.
Political Geography:: Europe, Soviet Union, and Hungary

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