May 26, 2009
John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for diplomacy and development to rank alongside defense at the heart of America's foreign policy in a major speech at the Brookings Institution last week. CGD's Sarah Jane Staats calls the speech a “knock-out” and writes that Sen. Kerry has put himself at the forefront of a growing number of congressional champions pushing for a more effective U.S. approach to global development.