Peter Tarnoff
Peter Tarnoff (born April 19, 1937 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is a former American diplomat who, as the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, held the third highest post in the United States Department of State and also long-time President of the Council on Foreign Relations was.
Life
After attending a high school in Montreal , Tarnoff studied philosophy at Colgate University in New York and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA philosophy). After further studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris , he entered the diplomatic service and was initially political advisor at the Embassy in Nigeria from 1962 to 1964 and then special assistant to the Deputy Ambassador to South Vietnam , U. Alexis Johnson . He was then from 1965 to 1966 special assistant to Henry Cabot Lodge junior , the ambassador to South Vietnam at the time , before returning to the State Department and there for a year as an analyst for Nigeria in the bureau for intelligence and research.
In 1967 he was again special assistant to Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who was now a special ambassador ( Ambassador-at-Large ) and in 1968 head of the US delegation for the peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War in Paris . In 1969 he became a special assistant to Kenneth Rush , the ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany . After he became a scholar at the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in 1970 , which traditionally trains the elite of French administrative officials, he was consul general in Lyon between 1971 and 1973 after completing this activity .
Tarnoff was then Deputy Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1973 to 1975 and then returned to the State Department in Washington, DC , where he was first Director of the Office for Research and Analysis of Western Europe and then from 1977 to 1981 as US Executive Secretary of State Director of the Executive Secretariat and the administration of the State Department.
In 1981, following the election of US President Ronald Reagan , he resigned from the State Department and from 1983 to 1986 was initially Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Seattle, a non- partisan, non-profit organization founded in 1951 that deals with foreign policy issues . He was then President of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1986 to 1993.
After Bill Clinton's election as US President, he returned to the State Department in March 1993, where he held the third highest position as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until April 1997. In this function he provoked a scandal in 1993 when he refused to accept the role of "world police" by the USA. Although this was the intention of President Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher , Tarnoff's view was relativized by Christopher himself with the words "We will lead".
Afterwards he was temporarily director of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a non-partisan organization founded in 1995, which also deals with foreign policy issues in cooperation with the Council on Foreign Relations.
Web links
- Peter Tarnoff in nndb (English)
- US State Department Biographies
- Making Foreign Policy in a Democracy , Interview with Harry Kreisler from October 13, 1999 (text version)
- Making Foreign Policy in a Democracy , Interview with Harry Kreisler, October 13, 1999 (youtube.com)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarnoff, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City |