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The key committee in an American embassy. It is composed of the heads of any executive branch agencies operating in the country and is chaired by the ambassador. Designed to help US ambassadors reassert their authority following the colonization of their embassies during the Cold War by a plethora of different Washington-based agencies, the twin principles of the country team idea are consensus and coordination. The term first came into use in 1951 following a report by General Lucius D. Clay. Nevertheless, the country team is only a ‘management tool’ and American ambassadors have never been required to employ it. The well known economist, J. K. Galbraith, who was sent by President Kennedy to be his ambassador to India in 1961, regarded it as indispensable only when he did not want to do anything. |
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