Op-Eds by Department Officials

12/15/16 This is One of Our Top Strategies for Fighting Terrorism;  Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall; CNBC; Washington, DC
12/09/16 Bringing International Corporations to the Anti-Corruption Table;  Assistant Secretary Charles H. Rivkin, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; Huffington Post; Washington, DC
11/22/16 America Must Engage With the World: Column;  Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken; USA Today
11/17/16 Justice Inspires Hope;  Ambassador-at-Large Susan Coppedge, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; El Periodico
05/23/16 Moving On in Vietnam, but Remembering Its Lessons;  Secretary of State John Kerry; New York Times
05/20/16 Hyderabad and the Emergence of the Global City;  Assistant Secretary Nisha Desai Biswal, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs; Eenadu Newspaper
05/12/16 Time To Treat Corruption With the Seriousness It Deserves;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
01/30/16 Getting the Endgame Right in Colombia;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Miami Herald
12/30/15 Communities Can Help Turn Back the Threat of Terrorism;  Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall; Boston Globe; Washington, DC
12/29/15 Building on 2015 as We Look Ahead;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Boston Globe
12/29/15 Building on 2015 as We Look Ahead [Arabic];  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Boston Globe
12/29/15 Building on 2015 as We Look Ahead [French];  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Boston Globe
12/29/15 Building on 2015 as We Look Ahead [Spanish];  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Boston Globe
10/29/15 Paris Climate Conference is a Rare Opportunity - Grab It;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Financial Times
10/26/15 What's the Problem with Women, Peace, and Security?;  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Catherine M. Russell; Women Around the World Blog, In Association With The Council on Foreign Relations
10/17/15 U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changing World;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Medium
10/08/15 All Climate Change Is Local;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Bloomberg View
10/06/15 Africa: Decisive Moment for Democracy;  Secretary of State John Kerry; AllAfrica
09/21/15 Our Fate Tied to the Ocean's Fate;  Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Catherine A. Novelli; The Huffington Post; Washington, DC
08/29/15 How Can We Call Ourselves Civilized While Women Are Victims of Barbarity?;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Guardian
08/14/15 Why I'm Going to Havana;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Huffington Post Latino Voices
08/08/15 Twenty Years of U.S.-Vietnam Relations;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
07/31/15 President Obama just announced a new effort to empower girls. Here's what it means.;  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Catherine M. Russell; Women in the World, In Association With The New York Times
07/22/15 The Americans With Disabilities Act Turns 25: Now We Must Work for Global Equality;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Guardian
07/22/15 The Case for the Nuclear Deal With Iran;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Washington Post
06/08/15 Congress Needs To Help American Trade Grow;  Secretary of State John Kerry; USA Today
06/08/15 World Oceans Day;  Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Catherine A. Novelli; Huffington Post; Washington, DC
06/03/15 Building Rule of Law Overseas;  Assistant Secretary William R. Brownfield, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Atlanta Journal Constitution
04/28/15 State Department Lays Out its Strategy;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Hill
04/27/15 How to Make Sure Iran Is a Nuclear Non-Proliferator;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Foreign Policy
04/26/15 Innovation Needs Protection: India and the U.S. Share a Mutual Interest in Encouraging Innovation and Safeguarding Intellectual Property Rights; U.S. Ambassador Richard R. Verma, India; Livemint E-Paper
04/22/15 On Earth Day, Time Running Out for Climate Change;  Secretary of State John Kerry; USA Today
02/18/15 Our Plan for Countering Violent Extremism;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Wall Street Journal Opinion
02/02/15 From a Swift Boat to a Sustainable Mekong;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Foreign Policy
01/21/15 The World is Watching Our Net Neutrality Debate, So Let's Get It Right;  Deputy Assistant Secretary and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy Daniel A. Sepulveda, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; Wired; Washington, DC
12/29/14 Degrading and Defeating ISIL;  Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL John Allen; Defense News; Washington, DC
12/26/14 Stopping the Flow of Corruption;  Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Washington Post
12/20/14 President Obama's New Cuba Policy Looks Forward, Not Back;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Miami Herald
12/15/14 South Sudan's Leaders Need To Set Aside Their Dispute;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Washington Post
12/11/14 No Single Country Can Solve Climate Change;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Huffington Post
12/08/14 Clear Land Mines Off the Earth;  Secretary of State John Kerry; USA Today
11/23/14 U.S.-Bangladesh Trade and Investment Ties: A Partnership for Sustained Success;  Assistant Secretary Charles H. Rivkin, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; Dhaka, Bangladesh
11/11/14 China, America and Our Warming Planet;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The New York Times
10/23/14 10 Parting Thoughts for America's Diplomats;  Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns; Foreign Policy
10/16/14 Feeding our Growing Planet by Opening More Markets;  Assistant Secretary Charles H. Rivkin, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; Des Moines Register; Des Moines, IA
10/09/14 The Gathering Storm;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Huffington Post
09/27/14 Afghanistan's Triumph of Statesmanship and Compromise;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington Post
09/26/14 Under U.S. Leadership, World Will Defeat ISIS;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Boston Globe
09/12/14 Op-Ed: ISIL's Abuse of Women and Girls Must Be Stopped;  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Catherine M. Russell; The Huffington Post; Washington, DC
09/05/14 Building a Dynamic U.S.-China Film Relationship;  Assistant Secretary Charles H. Rivkin, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; The Economic Observer; Beijing, China
08/29/14 To Defeat Terror, We Need the World's Help;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The New York Times
07/30/14 India's Economic Strength and Business Environment Are of Strategic Importance to the U.S.;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Economic Times; Washington, DC
07/30/14 Op-Ed on Afghanistan;  Secretary of State John Kerry; TOLOnews; Washington, DC
07/08/14 Why Is the Senate Hobbling American Diplomacy?;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Politico Magazine
06/30/14 Iranian Nuclear Deal Still Is Possible, But Time Is Running Out;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington Post
06/09/14 A Call to Action To Protect Our Oceans;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Huffington Post
06/09/14 Let There Be No Hiding Place For Rapists in War;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Evening Standard
06/03/14 25 Years Later, Tiananmen Square Still Colors U.S.-China Relations;  Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; The Washington Post
06/03/14 U.S. Is Setting an Example to the World on Climate Change;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Financial Times
06/03/14 We Need More Visas, Now, for Our Afghan Allies;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Los Angeles Times
06/02/14 Democracy, Prosperity Linked;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Miami Herald
05/02/14 Africa Is on the Rise, and We Need To Help Make Sure It Continues;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Washington Post
04/20/14 Working With the Vatican Against Modern Slavery;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Boston Globe
03/06/14 Women Key to Peace and Security;  Secretary of State John Kerry; DipNote Blog; Washington, DC
02/25/14 Preventing Sexual Violence Is a National Security Imperative;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The World Post
12/18/13 Migrants Need Protecting;  Assistant Secretary Anne C. Richard, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration; Op-Ed for International Migrants Day, December 18, 2013; Washington, DC
11/14/13 The Crush on Wildlife;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Huffington Post
11/06/13 Op-Ed: Disabilities Treaty Breaks Down Borders for Vets; Washington, DC
10/25/13 Assad's War of Starvation;  Secretary of State John Kerry; ForeignPolicy.com
09/06/13 Secretary of State John Kerry on the Case for Action in Syria;  Secretary of State John Kerry; The Huffington Post; Washington, DC
07/21/13 Our Disabled Deserve Access Abroad;  Secretary of State John Kerry; USA Today; Washington, DC
07/19/13 Getting the U.S.-China Climate Partnership Right;  Secretary of State John Kerry; ThinkProgress; Washington, DC
06/19/13 We Work on Climate Change Every Day;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Grist; Washington, DC
04/03/13 More Work to Bring War Criminals to Justice;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Huffington Post
03/21/13 Taking Global Action to Fight Hate;  Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Anwar Pandith; Washington, DC
03/08/13 Why Women are Central to U.S. Foreign Policy;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Washington, DC
02/20/13 A Conversation With Ambassador Frederick Barton;  Assistant Secretary Rick Barton, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations; Council on Foreign Relations; Washington, DC
12/10/12 Eleven Words;  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer; Washington, DC
12/08/12 When Women Drive Economic Growth;  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer; The Hindu
11/25/12 War's Silent Scourge: Sexual Violence Against Women;  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer; Ambassador Verveer and UK Ambassador Peter Westmacott's Joint Blog to Commemorate IDEVAW; Washington, DC
10/24/12 Ukraine's Troubling Trends;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; The New York Times
09/27/12 Op-Ed: Saving More Lives Than Ever;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Global Health and Diplomacy News
09/24/12 Lift Up Women to Lift the World;  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer; Washington, DC
08/20/12 London Olympics Make the Case for Unleashing the Potential of Women and Girls;  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer; Huffington Post; Washington, DC
07/23/12 A New Day in Haiti; U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth H. Merten; Op-Ed in Miami Herald; Miami, FL
07/18/12 The Art of Smart Power;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; New Statesman
07/10/12 Keeping Faith in Afghanistan;  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer; Washington, DC
07/06/12 Unsung in Afghanistan;  Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Afghanistan; The Washington Post
06/20/12 Trade With Russia Is a Win-Win;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Wall Street Journal
06/13/12 India and the United States: A Focus on the Fundamentals;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; India Abroad and online at Rediff.com
05/16/12 Missile Defense Cooperation Is the New Way Forward;  Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense Ellen Tauscher; Kommersant Newspaper; Moscow, Russia
05/14/12 Society for Neuroscience;  Science and Technology Adviser E. William Colglazier; Washington, DC
05/03/12 Women and the Arab Spring; Office of Global Women's Issues; Foreign Service Journal: May 2012, Volume 89, No. 5; Washington, DC
04/26/12 Visionary Innovators and Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century;  Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Robert D. Hormats; Huffington Post
03/27/12 Nuclear Security Summit Op-Ed; Op-Ed Article by donga.com; Seoul, South Korea
03/15/12 A Code for Outer Space, as Seen From the State Department; Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller; Letter to the Editor Published in The New York Times; Washington, DC
02/17/12 Science Magazine;  Science and Technology Adviser E. William Colglazier; Washington, DC
02/07/12 Delivering Jobs With International Tourism;  Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Thomas Nides; CNN
01/20/12 A Call to the "Innovation Generation";  Science and Technology Adviser E. William Colglazier; Washington, DC
01/16/12 Wallenberg's Life-Giving Legacy;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; The New York Times
12/22/11 A "New START" for Arms Control;  Assistant Secretary Rose Gottemoeller, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance; DipNote Blog Article; Washington, DC
12/05/11 The Silk Road Through Afghanistan: The Country's Economic Future Lies in its Region;  Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Thomas Nides; Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.; Washington, DC
10/11/11 Foreign Policy Magazine: America's Pacific Century;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Foreign Policy Magazine
08/24/11 Success in Afghanistan: It takes a Region;  Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman; McClatchy Newspapers; Washington, DC
08/12/11 Let's Save Starving Somalis; USA Today; Washington, DC
07/14/11 Foreign Policy of the Internet;  U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Karen Kornbluh; The Washington Post; Washington, DC
07/09/11 Independence Day for South Sudan;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; The Washington Post
07/06/11 Biotech Addresses Food Security, Climate Change: Potential Economic Growth Engine;  Assistant Secretary Jose W. Fernandez, Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs; BIOtechNOW; Washington, DC
06/17/11 There Is No Going Back in Syria;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper
06/07/11 The International Community Needs To Stay Focused on Bosnia and Herzegovina;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Joint Op-Ed Published in Newspapers Throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina
05/08/11 'Clean Stoves' Would Save Lives, Cut Pollution;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; USA Today
05/06/11 'Clean stoves' would save lives, cut pollution;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Printed in the USA Today; Washington, DC
03/12/11 In Libya, Our Aid Matters;  Assistant Secretary Eric P. Schwartz, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration; Washington Post; Washington, DC
03/07/11 Women's Work-More, Earn-Less Plan Hurts;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC
01/09/11 Progress in Haiti Is Slow, but Real; U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth H. Merten; The Washington Post
12/23/10 Prompt Approval of the New START Treaty in the Russian Legislature Will Help Promote Strategic Stability;  Assistant Secretary Rose Gottemoeller, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance; Kommersant, Russian Newspaper; Moscow, Russia
12/18/10 Another Chance for Egypt to Commit to Transparency;  Assistant Secretary Michael H. Posner, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Washington Post
11/30/10 Let's Get Back to Work with Russia: We Need New START in Force;  Assistant Secretary Rose Gottemoeller, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance; Op-Ed featured in The Hill; Washington, DC
11/16/10 What the New Arms Treaty Would Do;  Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher; Letter to the Editor in The New York Times; Washington, DC
11/15/10 Why the Senate Should Ratify New START;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; The Washington Post
11/08/10 Australia and U.S. Face Past, Present and Future Together;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; The Sydney Morning Herald
11/03/10 An End to Human Trafficking;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed Published by Newspapers Around the World
10/28/10 The Key to Sustainable Peace: Women;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Norwegian Newspaper Aftenposten and Denmark's Berlingske Tidende; Washington, DC
10/08/10 Addressing Global Food Production;  Assistant Secretary Jose W. Fernandez, Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs; The Huffington Post
10/01/10 Canada Is a Vital Partner in the Americas;  Assistant Secretary Arturo Valenzuela, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; This article originally appeared in the October 2010 issue of "FOCALPOINT: Spotlight on the Americas"; Washington, DC
09/16/10 U.S. Can't Risk Slow START;  Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher; Op-Ed in POLITICO; Washington, DC
09/16/10 Visit to Auschwitz and Dachau; Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal; Maltese Newspaper L-Orizzont, Swedien's Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Bulgaria's Politika Weekly, Greece's Makedonia
09/07/10 New START: Security Through 21st-Century Verification;  Assistant Secretary Rose Gottemoeller, Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation; Article in Arms Control Today; Washington, DC
06/22/10 A Flourishing Economic Partnership; U.S. Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer; Washington, DC
06/04/10 Partnership Of Democracies;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; Times of India
06/02/10 Promoting Strategic Dialogue; Washington, DC
05/30/10 The Balkans Deserve This;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; The Guardian
05/21/10 U.S.-China Achievements Go Beyond Expo;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Shanghai, China
05/14/10 New Complexities and Approaches to Global Health Diplomacy;  Assistant Secretary Kerri-Ann Jones, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Washington, DC
04/16/10 Joining Hands for Clean Energy;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed in the Miami Herald and La Opinion; Washington, DC
04/16/10 Keeping Nukes in Check;  Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins; Op-Ed in Mail & Guardian; Washington, DC
04/07/10 Our Giant Step Towards a World Free from Nuclear Danger;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed in UK's The Guardian, Germany's Berliner Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , and Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza
03/26/10 Financial Inclusion: Freedom to Borrow; Senior Advisor Charles Shapiro, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; Op-Ed in the Stabroek News, Guyana; The Gleaner, Jamaica; Democrat, St. Kitts & Nevis; Washington, DC
03/08/10 The World's Women Are Still Left Behind;  U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Karen Kornbluh; Op-Ed in The Huffington Post; Washington, DC
02/12/10 One Month Later, Haiti's Humanitarian Crisis Remains; Huffington Post Op-Ed by USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah; Washington, DC
12/15/09 The U.S. Is on Board;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; International Herald Tribune
12/04/09 All Nations Must Play a Part in Afghanistan Mission;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; The Daily Telegraph
10/13/09 Sharing the Benefits of Economic Growth in the Western Hemisphere;  Charge d'Affairs D. Brent Hardt, Barbados; Caribbean Analysis; Bridgetown, Barbados
08/21/09 What I Saw in Goma;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; people.com; Washington, DC
08/09/09 Women Are Drivers of Positive Change;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; City Press, South Africa
08/03/09 In Afghanistan, a Time to Debate and Decide By U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry; Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs; The Washington Post; Washington, DC
07/27/09 A New Strategic and Economic Dialogue with China;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; The Wall Street Journal
07/17/09 Encourage Pakistan as it Confronts Extremism;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; The Times of India
07/04/09 Of Thee I Sing;  Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Anwar Pandith; Washington, DC
06/17/09 Partnering Against Trafficking;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed; The Washington Post
06/01/09 New Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas;  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Op-Ed originally published in The Miami Herald
05/08/09 On Fundamental Human Rights, Our Pledge; Assistant Secretary Esther Brimmer, Bureau of International Organization Affairs; Op-ed published in the Caribbean News; Washington, DC