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When John Kerry recently decided to step down as the U.S. special envoy for climate—ending a yearslong marathon of globe-trotting and 11th-hour negotiations—his daughter suggested organizing a ...

Frustrated US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded action from Israeli and Palestinian ... More than a year of intensive Kerry shuttle diplomacy had appeared to be on the brink of collapse after ...

Anchor Diplomacy, the muscle of entrenching a position and forcing the sides to react, can only be effective by a mediator with tremendous influence on each side.