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<\/a><\/p>\nAmb. Robert Loftis,<\/a> Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0was recently interviewed on what an official protest among career diplomats at the State Department means for President Donald Trump’s\u00a0travel ban on citizens of\u00a0seven Muslim-majority countries.<\/span><\/p>\n Loftis was interviewed for a January 31, 2017 article in\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>entitled “State Department Dissent: What Does it Mean for Trump’s Travel Ban?<\/a>”<\/p>\n From the text of the article:<\/p>\n \u201cThe likelihood of this administration taking the protest of career state department officials seriously is very low,\u201d explains Robert Loftis, a longtime State Department diplomat who was formerly the ambassador to Lesotho, in a phone conversation with The Christian Science Monitor.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe vast majority of people are willing to work with an incoming administration,\u201d says Ambassador Loftis, who is now a professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies. \u201cThat\u2019s your job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou want to have all the interests of the United States considered before you take a major step like this,\u201d Loftis explains. The travel ban, by contrast, was \u201cput into place, as far as anyone can tell, without any consultation whatsoever.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Robert G. Loftis served in the State Department and Foreign Service from 1980 to 2012, where he held a wide variety of assignments, including Acting Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (2010-2012), Special Representative for Avian and Pandemic Influenza (2009), Senior Adviser for Security Negotiations and Agreements (2004-2007), Ambassador to Lesotho (2001-2004) and Deputy Chief of Mission in Mozambique (1999-2001). \u00a0You can read more about him <\/span>here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amb. Robert Loftis discusses what an official protest among career diplomats means for President Trump’s travel ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9860,9937,8462,8860,10007,9545,8578,8859,8617,8709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26726,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724\/revisions\/26726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}