För den som är intresserad har nu personerna som ska utarbeta grunderna för den nya Obama administrationen offentliggjorts. Med Susan Rice som kallade Hillary för en häxa som en del av det natioella säkerhetsteamet villket kanske får en eller annan att undra. För den som följer amerikanska politik kan man undra om det blir en liknande situation som med John Bolton i utrikesdepartementet under Colin Powell.
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Policy Working Groups
The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration. The Policy Working Groups will focus on the following areas: Economy, Education, Energy & Environment, Health Care, Immigration, National Security, and Technology, Innovation & Government Reform.
—-National Security
The National Security Policy Working Group works closely with key
experts and our agency review teams to help prepare the
President-elect, Vice President-elect and senior national security
appointees as they are named to make early decisions on critical
national security issues.James B. Steinberg is dean of the LBJ School of
Public Affairs (2006-present) and is a former Deputy National Security
Advisor to President Clinton (1996-2000). His previous positions
include vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the
Brookings Institution (2001-2005), director of the Policy Planning
Staff (1994-1996) and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Analysis
in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1993-1994) at the U.S.
Department of State. He is the author of and contributor to many books
on foreign policy and national security topics, including, most
recently, with Kurt Campbell, Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Power.Dr. Susan E. Rice served most recently as a Senior
Foreign Policy Advisor to the Obama for America campaign while on leave
from the Brookings Institution where she is a Senior Fellow in the
Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development Programs. Rice
currently serves on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
From 1997-2001, she was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs. Prior to that, Rice served in the White House at the National
Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for African Affairs and as Director for International
Organizations and Peacekeeping. Rice was previously a management
consultant at McKinsey and Company. She received her B.A. in History
with Honors from Stanford University and her M.Phil. and D.Phil.
(Ph.D.) degrees in International Relations from Oxford University,
where she was a Rhodes Scholar.Group Members
Jeffrey Bader
Jeremy Bash
Antony Blinken
Gregory Craig
Ivo Daalder
Richard Danzig
Mary De Rosa
Michele Flournoy
Stephen Flynn
Michelle Gavin
Philip Gordon
Scott Gration
Frank Januzzi
Colin Kahl
Liz King
Paul Kurtz
Daniel Kurtzer
Ellen Laipson
Mark Lippert
Denis McDonough
Michael McFaul
Carlos Monje
Erin O’Connor
Peter Ogden
Joseph Paulsen
Daniel Restrepo
Bruce Riedel
Dennis Ross
Mara Rudman
Whitney Schneidman
Eric Schwartz
Sarah Sewall
Daniel Shapiro
Steven Simon
Peter Singer
Gayle Smith
Mona Sutphen
Jennifer Urizar
Toni Verstandig
Jeremy Weinstein