William Joseph Burns

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William J. Burns (2014)

William Joseph Burns (* 4. April 1956 in Fort Bragg , North Carolina ) is an American diplomat , who until November 3, 2014 of 28 July 2011 Deputy Foreign Minister ( Deputy Secretary of State ), the second highest post in the State Department of the United States clad.

Life

After attending school, Burns, son of Major General William Burns, studied history at La Salle University , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA History) after studying abroad for a year at Laval University in Québec in 1978 . After he graduated with a scholarship of the George C. Marshall - Foundation a postgraduate course in the subject of International Relations at the University of Oxford and graduated first with a Master of Philosophy and finally in 1981 with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from.

After completing his studies, he entered the diplomatic service in 1982 and found jobs in the State Department as well as at US missions abroad in the following years until 1996. Between 1996 and 1998 he was special assistant to then Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright and US Executive Secretary of State head of the Executive Secretariat of the Department of State Administration.

He succeeded Wesley William Egan, Jr. as Ambassador to Jordan in August 1998 and returned to the State Department in June 2001, where he was Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs until 2005 . In November 2005 Burns, who also worked for the Council on Foreign Relations , succeeded Alexander Vershbow as ambassador to Russia .

As of May 13, 2008, he held the third highest post in the United States Department of State as United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. On July 27, 2011, the US Senate confirmed his appointment as Vice Secretary of State and thus Deputy Hillary Clinton . The following day he succeeded James Steinberg . From January 2013 he was deputy to Hillary Clinton's successor, John Kerry . In April 2014, his resignation was announced for October of the same year. Shortly before the end of his tenure, the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace announced that Burns would take over its chairmanship from February 2015 as the successor to Jessica Mathews . His position as Deputy Secretary fell to Tony Blinken .

In 2015 Burns was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From June 11th to 14th, 2015 he took part in the 63rd  Bilderberg Conference in Telfs-Buchen , Austria .

In the New York Times , Burns described the Iranian attacks on tankers in 2019 as "ruthless and dangerous [but] at least partly a foreseeable consequence of an American strategy of forced diplomacy, which so far has only known coercion and no diplomacy."

Fonts

  • Economic Aid and American Policy Toward Egypt, 1955-1981 (1985)
  • How We Fool Ourselves on Russia . In: New York Times . ( nytimes.com ).
  • The Back Channel. A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal . Random House, New York 2019. ISBN 978-0-525-50886-1

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ William J. Burns named next Carnegie President . Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 29, 2014
  2. ↑ cit. according to Christoph Ehrhardt, Majid Sattar: Reactions to tanker attacks: With relentless indecision . FAZ , June 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Burns, William Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burns, William J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Bragg , North Carolina