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Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
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Phone: +1-202-518-3436
E-mail: pbeinart@cfr.org
Location:
Washington, DC
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Author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals-And Only Liberals-Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again. Editor-at-Large and former editor of the New Republic, columnist for the Washington Post, and contributor to Time magazine. Current work examines how the United States recovers from lost wars.
Expertise:U.S. national security; domestic politics and foreign policy; foreign policy history; the media and foreign policy; nationalism; democracy and human rights; Congress; the presidency.
Experience:Editor at Large, The New Republic (currently); Columnist, the Washington Post (currently); Contributor, Time Magazine (currently); Editor, The New Republic (1999-2006); Non-Resident Fellow, the Brookings Institution (2005-2006).
Honors:The Week magazine's columnist of the year for 2004. The Good Fight: Why Liberals-- And Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again named one of the best books of 2006 by the Washington Post.
Selected Publications:The Good Fight: Why Liberals--And Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (HarperCollins, 2006). Also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Slate, Reader's Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Polity: the Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Studies Association.
Current Research Project
April 8, 2008
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
If presidents govern the way they campaign, then Obama will be a fine leader, argues Peter Beinart.
See more in U.S. Election 2008
March 20, 2008
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Article
Time Magazine
Peter Beinart writes that the Iraq war has spelled the end for muscular moralism in U.S. foreign policy.
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, Democracy Promotion
March 3, 2008
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Article
Time Magazine
“The Democrats may seem divided along class lines,” argues Peter Beinart, “but it's actually the Republicans who need to worry.”
See more in United States, U.S. Election 2008
January 31, 2008
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Peter Beinart argues that “bitter primary contests don't necessarily hurt candidates in the general election.”
See more in United States, Presidency, U.S. Election 2008
![The Impact of Foreign Policy in the 2008 Election [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]](/content/publications/images/flag.jpg)
January 31, 2008
| Speakers: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs |
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| Presider: | Robert McMahon, Deputy Editor, CFR.org |
Transcript
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
January 31, 2008
| Speakers: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs |
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| Presider: | Robert McMahon, Deputy Editor, CFR.org |
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the role of foreign policy in the 2008 presidential campaign.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
January 28, 2008
News Briefing
CFR experts offer their analysis of President George W. Bush's final State of the Union address.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, Presidency
January 16, 2008
| Speaker: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to Peter Beinart, CFR senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy, discuss the presidential primaries and the key international issues being debated among the candidates as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.
See more in U.S. Election 2008
January 4, 2008
Peter Beinart, CFR Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
CFR's Peter Beinart says the Iowa caucuses reveal shifts in the political beliefs of both parties' bases.
See more in United States, Presidency, U.S. Election 2008
December 9, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
Peter Beinart writes about the implications of the use of the term “World War IV ” in place of “war on terror.”
See more in Middle East, Wars and Warfare, Foreign Policy History
December 3, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Peter Beinart writes that "in the biggest surprise of the campaign so far, the election that almost everyone thought would be about Iraq is turning out not to be. And that explains a lot about which candidates are on the rise and which ones are starting to fall."
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, U.S. Election 2008
November 28, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Peter Beinart writes that Obama must convince voters that his original antiwar stance still matters.
See more in U.S. Election 2008
September 11, 2007
| Authors: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies Vali R. Nasr, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy |
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Other Report
Six CFR experts provide their own analysis of the Petraeus and Crocker testimony.
See more in Iraq, Defense Strategy, Wars and Warfare
August 30, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Time Magazine
See more in Iraq, U.S. Election 2008
August 18, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
The Australian
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, Foreign Policy History, Organization of Government
August 15, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, Polls, U.S. Election 2008
August 7, 2007
Podcast
CFR Senior Fellow Peter Beinart sees little chance of bipartisan Iraq policy emerging from Congress as the political season intensifies.
See more in Iraq, Defense/Homeland Security
August 6, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Time Magazine
See more in Pakistan, Democracy Promotion, Terrorism
June 25, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Time Magazine
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
June 12, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
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