Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001
From: Interhemispheric Resource Center/Institute for Policy Studies
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FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS
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What's in the NEWS, April 26, 2001
Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa
by Ann-Louise Colgan
http://fpif.org/commentary/0104kansteiner.html
Walter Kansteiner, Bush's nominee for Assistant Secretary
of State for Africa, was chosen for the post over well-respected
foreign service professional Johnny Carson, who currently
serves as U.S. ambassador to Kenya. Initial reports on Kansteiner
have noted his background as a commodities trader and as an
African affairs expert at the State Department and National Security
Council during the first Bush administration. In 1991 Kansteiner
received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award for
work promoting privatization. During the Clinton years, he worked
for the Scowcroft Group, a consulting firm headed by Brent Scowcroft,
former national security adviser and Kansteiner's former boss in the
Bush administration. Kansteiner has written occasional articles on
Africa for The Forum for International Policy (http://www.ffip.org/),
a center-right Washington think tank where Scowcroft is a resident
trustee.
Kansteiner fits the profile of the majority of the middle-tiered
appointees of the Bush administration, described in The Washington
Post (March 25, 2001) as having "eclipsed Reagan's in conservatism."
Although some portray the State Department as a haven of moderates
in contrast to Pentagon and White House hardliners, Kansteiner's
appointment mirrors the appointments of Otto Reich for Latin American
affairs at the State Department and of John Negroponte for the position
of UN representative. With Kansteiner, Bush is appointing another
right-wing ideologue to a key operational position dealing with regional
issues. Interestingly, neither Kansteiner's official biography nor news
stories to date highlight his ties with the far-right Institute on Religion
and Democracy (IRD).
For complete article:
http://fpif.org/commentary/0104kansteiner.html
For more profiles on key staff members in the new
Bush administration, see FPIF's Republican Rule website:
http://fpif.org/republicanrule/profiles.html
FPIF publishes policy briefs, reports on U.S foreign
policy, editorials, and global affairs commentaries. For
information about submitting an original analysis please
review: http://fpif.org/guidelines.html
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Tim McGivern
Foreign Policy in Focus
http://www.fpif.org
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