A Call To Restructure the State Department

The United States must scrap the current structure of the State Department and radically reshape its foreign assistance, trade and diplomatic programs to create a super-size international affairs agency to meet overseas challenges, a majority in a congressionally mandated bipartisan commission will recommend tomorrow.

Did we catch your eye yet? To read more from Glenn Kessler, in a recent WashPost article, please click here! The article incorporates CSIS's idea of Smart Power (PCR Project Co-Director Rick Barton is a commissioner on the project), and reevaluating the U.S. aid process--demonstrated in "A Perilous Course, U.S. Strategy and Assistance to Pakistan."