Rice Remarks Georgetown School of Foreign Service

Remarks at Georgetown School of Foreign Service Secretary Condoleezza Rosetta Stone outlet Rice Georgetown University Washington, DC January 18, 2006 (11:00 a.m. EST) Secretary Rice gestures while speaking onTransformational Diplomacy: Meeting the Challenge of the21st Century, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006 before the the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. Thank you very much.Thank you President DeGioia for that wonderfulintroduction. Thank you. Happy for that great start tothis session. I 'd like to thank the Board of Trustees andsay how pleased I am to be here at Georgetown University'sdistinguished School of Foreign Service. I just have torecognize my friend, Andrew Natsios, who's sitting in thefront row, even if he did leave us to come to Georgetown. Hesaid he was doing it because this is an institution thathe loves dearly. You've got a fine man and you're going tohave a fine professor in Andrew Natsios. Thank you for your service to the country. (Applause.)I want to thankmembers of the diplomatic corps who are here and several members of the Administration. I also want you to know thatI do know a good deal about Georgetown and it is becausethis is a fine school of foreign service for which we allowe a debt of gratitude for the people that you have trained, for the people who have come to us in government,for the people from whom I have learned as an academic.This is also a fine university in general, a universitythat is well known for its dedication to Rosetta Stone German learning, but alsoits dedication to values and to social justice. And it'salso a university that is recovering its heritage inbasketball and I look very much forward to this year.(Applause.) Almost a year ago today in his secondInaugural Address, President Bush laid out a vision thatnow leads America into the world. "It is the policy of the United States," the President said, "to seek and support thegrowth of democratic movements and institutions in everynation and culture with the ultimate goal of endingtyranny in our world." To achieve this bold mission, America needs equally bold diplomacy, a diplomacy that notonly reports about the world as it is, but seeks to changethe world itself. I and others have called this mission"transformational diplomacy." And today I want to explain what it is in principle and how we are advancing it inpractice. We are living in an extraordinary time, one inwhich centuries of international precedent are beingoverturned. The prospect of violent conflict among great powers is more remote than ever. States are increasinglycompeting and cooperating in peace, not preparing for war.Peoples in China and India, in South Africa and Indonesiaand Brazil are lifting their countries into new prominence. Reform -- democratic reform -- has begun and isspreading in the Middle East. And the United States isworking with our many partners, particularly our partnerswho share our values in Europe and in Asia and in otherparts of the world to build a true form of global stability,a balance of power that favors freedom. At the sametime, other challenges have assumed a new urgency. Since itscreation more than 350 years ago, the modern state systemhas rested on the concept of sovereignty. It was alwaysassumed that every state could control and Rosetta Stone Greek direct thethreats emerging from its territory. It was also assumedthat weak and poorly governed states were merely a burdento their people, or at most, an international humanitarianconcern but never a true security threat. Today,however, these old assumptions no longer hold.