Robert Holley is a retired United States Foreign Service Officer (1980-2002) who has extensive policy experience in Trans-Atlantic security issues as well as the politics of transitional societies in Eastern and Central Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and North Africa. Prior to his Foreign Service career, he was as a US Army aviator (1967-1974). He has also taught courses in US foreign policy at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the University of Florida. He was Counselor for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Rabat, Morocco (1998-2001) where, simultaneously, he was also the US Government’s principal political interlocutor with the Polisario Front. He is the recipient of numerous US and foreign military medals and civilian honor awards, including the Secretary of State’s Career Achievement Award and both the Silver and two Bronze Stars and fourteen awards of the Air Medal for combat service. Currently, Mr. Holley is a Senior Policy Adviser at the Moroccan American Center for Policy where he has served in various capacities since 2003.
He can be reached at: robertmholley@aol.com
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[...] Robert M. Holley (Washington, DC, Dec. 22, 2011) — The Party of Justice and Development (PJD) is described as [...]
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[...] Robert Holley, Senior Advisor, Moroccan American Center for Policy (Washington, DC, March 20, 2012) — I was driving around town this past weekend doing the usual errands and listening to my favorite classic rock station when an oldie from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers came on the radio, where he sings “You Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee.” It made me think of the just concluded, but as usual inconclusive, ninth round of informal talks on Western Sahara and something I thought Peter Van Walsum had said in his last report as the UN’s Personal Envoy that had never gotten the attention I felt it deserved. [...]
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[...] American Center for Policy, by Robert M. Holley (Washington, DC, July 23, 2012) — A few weeks ago I scribbled on these same pages a somewhat [...]
[...] American Center for Policy, by Robert M. Holley (Washington, DC, Sept. 7, 2012) — In July I wrote on these pages about the seeming [...]
[...] country in the world to recognize the independence of the United States of America in 1777. – Robert M. Holley is Senior Policy Advisor for the Moroccan American Center for Policy (MACP). [...]
[...] by Robert M. Holley (Washington, DC, Jan. 15, 2013) — It would have been nice if Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb [...]
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[...] by Robert M. Holley (Washington, DC, Feb. 12, 2013) — I was in Morocco in November, December and then again in [...]