James Dobbins
 James Dobbins      (diplomat) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1942-05-31 New York City, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Georgetown School of Foreign Service | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Toril Kleivdal | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Members | ||||||||||||||||||
US diplomatic troubleshooter who worked for RAND. Attended Bilderberg/1983 and Bilderberg/1990. Supporter of internet censorship
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James Francis Dobbins, Jr. is a US diplomat who worked for RAND. He attended the 1983 and 1990 Bilderberg meetings, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Career
He has held State Department and White House posts including assistant secretary of State for Europe, special assistant to the president for the Western Hemisphere, special adviser to the president, secretary of State for the Balkans, and ambassador to the European Community.[1]
Dobbins has worked on numerous crisis management and diplomatic troubleshooting assignments as special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia for the administrations of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.[1]
Diplomatic assignments include the withdrawal of American forces from Somalia, the American-led multilateral intervention in Haiti, the stabilization of Bosnia, and the NATO intervention in Kosovo. In the wake of September 11, 2001, he was named as the Bush administration's representative to the Afghan opposition with the task of putting together and installing a broadly based successor to the Taliban government. He represented the United States at the Bonn Conference that established the new Afghan government, and, on December 16, 2001, he raised the flag over the newly reopened U.S. Embassy.[2]
In 2013 he returned to the State Department to become the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, returning to RAND in 2014. [1]
Internet censorship
In 2015, Dobbins tweeted "Need Curbs on Internet Abuse. I wrote this six months ago. Was controversial then, almost common wisdom now."[3]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1983 | 13 May 1983 | 15 May 1983 | Canada Quebec Château Montebello | The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada |
| Bilderberg/1990 | 10 May 1990 | 13 May 1990 | New York US Glen Cove | 38th Bilderberg meeting, 119 guests |
References
- ↑ a b c https://www.rand.org/about/people/d/dobbins_james.html accessed in 2021
- ↑ James Dobbins, RAND, accessed February 7, 2011.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Jim_Dobbins
