Ex-diplomats serve as candidates' foreign policy advisers: Who's advising whom?

NYT/AP: Seasoned Advisers Help Candidates
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 5, 2007

Some of the prominent ex-diplomats providing foreign policy advice to presidential candidates seeking the White House:

--Richard Holbrooke (Hillary Rodham Clinton).

Former U.N. ambassador, head of State Department's European bureau and ambassador to Germany, he's best known for negotiating the Dayton accords in 1995 that ended four years of fighting in the Balkans.

--Madeleine Albright (Clinton).

Secretary of state in President Clinton's second administration, she was the first woman to hold the top diplomatic job. Albright is best known for aggressive diplomacy in the Balkans to stop ethnic cleansing.

--Henry Kissinger, George P. Shultz, Lawrence Eagleburger (John McCain)....

--Charlie Hill (Rudy Giuliani)....

--Tony Lake (Barack Obama).

National security adviser in Clinton's first term, Lake is a professor at Georgetown University' foreign service school, was director of policy planning for President Carter and was a senior foreign policy adviser to the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1991-92.

--Zbigniew Brzezinski (informal adviser for Obama).

National security adviser in the Carter administration, he focused on East-West relations in a long diplomatic and academic career stretching back to the Kennedy administration. Known for anti-Soviet views, he general favors diplomacy rooted in international cooperation and has opposed President Bush's war in Iraq.

--Steven Schrage (Mitt Romney)....

--Derek Chollet (John Edwards.)

He was Edwards' foreign policy adviser in the Senate and now a key adviser in the campaign.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Campaign-Advice-Glance.html

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