{"id":2307,"date":"2017-02-21T11:39:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2017-02-21T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:39:36","slug":"professor-hugh-dugan-remembers-the-russian-ambassador-to-un-vitaly-churkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/2017\/02\/21\/professor-hugh-dugan-remembers-the-russian-ambassador-to-un-vitaly-churkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Hugh Dugan remembers the Russian Ambassador to UN Vitaly Churkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">Vitaly Churkin\u2019s posting as Russia\u2019s Ambassador to the United Nations provided powerful institutional memory and issue expertise to Moscow.\u00a0 This <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">gave<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\"> many advantages <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">o Putin\u2019s foreign policy, due in great part to Churkin\u2019s ten-<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">year UN term <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">compared to other ambassadors serving less than half that time usually.\u00a0 Churkin\u2019s staying <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">power there and as a fixture of Moscow\u2019s foreign policy elite meant that his word was definit<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">ive and unambiguous, albeit often problematic and frustrating for other UN member states.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">On the Security Council Churkin reliably played the match or the firecracker, or both, but never the spectator.\u00a0 As a masterful member of the diplomatic guild, his ambassadorial tradecraft was state-of-the-art and respected among his peers and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">among <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">students of the foreign relations chessboard.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #993366;font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Churkin cultivated over time a deep bench of Russian diplomatic talent at the UN which brought his trademark boldness to its many forums and sessions.\u00a0 This deep bench, not equaled in any other delegation to the UN, will ensure continuity of Moscow\u2019s interests at the UN going forward while the diplomatic community there comes to terms with his sudden departure.<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #003300;font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Churkin\u2019s posting as Russia\u2019s Ambassador to the United Nations provided powerful institutional memory and issue expertise to Moscow.\u00a0 This gave many advantages to Putin\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/2017\/02\/21\/professor-hugh-dugan-remembers-the-russian-ambassador-to-un-vitaly-churkin\/\">Continue Reading<span 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