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James Morrison

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James Morrison joined the The Washington Times in 1983 as a local reporter covering Alexandria, Va. A year later, he was assigned to open a Times bureau in Canada. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Morrison was The Washington Times reporter in London, covering Britain, Western Europe and NATO issues. After returning to Washington, he served as an assistant foreign editor until his transfer to the Metro desk as the Virginia editor. Mr. Morrison returned to the Foreign Desk in 1993 to launch the Embassy Row column, a diplomatic news column primarily focusing on foreign ambassadors in the United States and U.S. ambassadors abroad. The column is the only one of its kind in U.S. journalism.
Mr. Morrison was born on Nov. 27, 1950, in Charleston, W.Va. His father worked as a printer for the Charleston Gazette and later relocated to Washington to work as a photo engraver at The Washington Post until his retirement. Before joining The Washington Times, James Morrison was a reporter for the Springfield, Va., Times, the Northern Virginia Sun and the Alexandria Gazette. He attended American University.

Articles by James Morrison

Embassy Row

President Obama tried to practice "Sally Field diplomacy" in Latin America by reaching out to U.S. opponents in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela and believing they "like me," only to have his overtures rejected, a former Costa Rican ambassador said in an analysis of Mr. Obama's first year in office.

December 17, 2009

Embassy Row

When Henry Kissinger was secretary of state in the 1970s, he once quipped, "If I want to call Europe, who do I call?"

December 16, 2009

Embassy Row

Mexicans are beginning to realize that drug violence is spreading into society at all levels and is no longer an isolated conflict along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual.

December 15, 2009

Embassy Row

When U.S. Ambassador Dan Rooney visited a small Irish town to look for President Obama's ancestors, speculation spread through Ireland that the envoy might be preparing a presidential visit to the Emerald Isle.

December 14, 2009

Embassy Row

Canadian Gary Doer and American David Jacobson are on the road to learn as much as possible and as quickly as possible about each other's country.

December 8, 2009

Embassy Row

Foreign visitors in Washington this week.

December 7, 2009

Embassy Row

The Afghan ambassador in Washington is disappointed that President Obama set an 18-month deadline to begin the withdrawal of U.S. troops from his country and insisted the Afghan army and police will need at least five more years before they can handle security.

December 4, 2009

Embassy Row

Ambassador to Japan John Roos held talks with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima and argued that the relocation of the Futenma Marine base farther north within four years is the "best and only viable option."

December 1, 2009

Embassy Row

Gustavo Coronel, a Venezuelan social activist, petroleum geologist and political scientist; Manuel Rosales, the elected mayor of Maracaibo, Venezuela, forced into exile because of his opposition to President Hugo Chavez and Gerver Torres, director of Leadership and Vision, a nonprofit Venezuela organization, discuss the threat to democracy in Venezuela in a forum sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at the Hudson Institute.

November 30, 2009

Embassy Row

The next president of Romania could be a very familiar face in Washington.

November 27, 2009

Embassy Row

The Sandinista judges on the Supreme Court recently removed a restriction that prohibited Nicaraguan presidents from serving more than two terms, presenting a significant boost to President Daniel Ortega, who wants to run for a third overall term in 2011.

November 25, 2009

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to Greece worries that countries along the western region of the Balkan Peninsula are still a boiling caldron of unrest 10 years after wars ravaged the area and changed the political landscape.

November 24, 2009

Embassy Row

From Washington to Manila, ambassadors are discovering the value of Twitter, Facebook and other Internet networking sites to get their messages to the netroots generation.

November 23, 2009

Embassy Row

The British ambassador doesn't think so, but he is seeing what he calls a "cinematic trend" in Hollywood where the latest, chic vampire movies feature English actors.

November 20, 2009