Peter Tarnoff

Peter Tarnoff ( born April 19, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is a retired American diplomat who for political affairs the third highest post held as Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States and also long-time president of the Council on Foreign Relations had.

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 ) from. After further studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris, he entered the diplomatic service and was initially 1962-1964 Political Officer at the Embassy in Nigeria and then special assistant to the Deputy Ambassador to South Vietnam, U. Alexis Johnson. He was subsequently 1965-1966 Special assistant to Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the former ambassador to South Vietnam, before he returned to the State Department and there for a year analyst for Nigeria in the office of Intelligence and Research.

In 1967 he was again special assistant to Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who was now special envoy ( Ambassador -at -Large), and in 1968 head of the U.S. delegation to the peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War in Paris. In 1969 he was special assistant to Kenneth Rush, the Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. After administration (ENA ), which traditionally formed the elite of the French administration officials, in 1970 a scholar at the École nationale d', he was after the completion of this activity 1971-1973 General in Lyon.

Following Tarnoff was 1973-1975 Deputy Ambassador to Luxembourg and returned to the Foreign Office to Washington afterwards, DC back, where he was successively Director of the Office of Research and Analysis in Western Europe and then from 1977 to 1981 when U.S. Secretary of State Executive Director of the Executive Secretariat and the administration of the State Department.

In 1981, he retired after the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was in the following period from 1983 to 1986, first Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Seattle, a company founded in 1951 non-partisan non-profit organization that focuses on foreign policy issues. Subsequently, he was from 1986 to 1993 president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

After the election of Bill Clinton as U.S. president, he returned in March 1993 returned to the Foreign Ministry, where he took to April 1997 as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the third highest position. In this role, he provoked a scandal in 1993 when he refused to take over the role of " world police " by the United States. Although this corresponded to the intention of President Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher, was Tarnoffs view by Christopher himself with the words "We will lead " perspective.

After that, he was at times director of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a non-partisan organization founded in 1995, in collaboration with the Council on Foreign Relations also dealing with foreign policy issues.