The current confrontation turns partly on what, if any, commitments Secretary of State James A. Baker III made about NATO’s expansion in the waning days of the Cold War. By Peter Baker While the White ...

Former Secretary of State James Baker attempted to shield Bob Zoellick, the new head of Mitt Romney's national security transition team, Thursday night following blistering criticisms from neocons ...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush turned on Friday to a longtime family friend and troubleshooter, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, to be his personal envoy in seeking an international deal to ...

HOUSTON (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has picked up theendorsement of former Secretary of State James Baker in her bid tounseat incumbent Gov. Rick Perry. Baker, speaking to a Houston ...

A longtime adviser to President Bush and the Bush family says there may be alternatives to the present U.S. policy in Iraq. Former Secretary of State James Baker told ABC that the United States has ...

— James Baker, secretary of state to George H.W. Bush, in an interview with The Cable’s Josh Rogin. Contact us at [email protected] ...

The other day I called an Arab security official in the Gulf and joked with him about how well things are going in Iraq. He wasn’t in the mood for irony. “The Iranians and the Shi’a are coming to get ...