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Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
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Phone: +1-212-434-9548
E-mail: wmead@cfr.org
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Award-winning author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. Author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, released in October 2007.
Expertise:U.S. foreign policy; international political economy; domestic politics; religion and foreign policy.
Experience:Project Director, Religion and Foreign Policy, Pew Forum (2003-present); founding Board Member, New America Foundation (1999-present); Project Director, Study Group on History of U.S. Foreign Policy, Phase II (current); Senior Contributing Editor, Worth (current); Contributing Editor, Los Angeles Times (current); Project Director, Working Group on Development, Trade & International Finance, Phase II; President’s Fellow, World Policy Institute at the New School (1987-97); Contributing Editor, Harper’s Magazine (1986-91).
Lionel Gelber Award for the best book in English on international relations, Special Providence (2002); Premio Acqui Storia for most important historical book published in Italian, Italian translation of Special Providence (2002); Arthur Ross Book Award finalist, Special Providence (2002).
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Knopf, 2007); Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America’s Grand Strategy in a World at Risk (Knopf, 2004); Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Knopf, 2001); Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition (Houghton Mifflin, 1987); and articles in Esquire, Worth, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker.
Current Research Projects
Past Research Projects
June 30, 2008
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia and Canada don’t have particularly deep or close relations, but there are strong reasons to believe that closer Canberra-Ottawa ties would bring substantial benefits to both, writes Walter Russell Mead.
See more in Canada, Australasia and the Pacific
July/August 2008
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The real key to Washington’s pro-Israel policy is long-lasting and broad-based support for the Jewish state among the American public at large.
See more in Israel, Media and Foreign Policy
July/August 2008
| Authors: | Condoleezza Rice Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies |
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Podcast
This audio includes readings of selected articles from the July/August 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
July/August 2008
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Podcast
From the July/August 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs: The real key to Washington's pro-Israel policy is long-lasting and broad-based support for the Jewish state among the American public at large.
See more in Israel, U.S. Strategy and Politics
June 11, 2008
| Speakers: | Mayfair Yang, Director of Asian Studies, the University of Sydney, Australia, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Brian Grim, Senior Research Fellow in Religion and World Affairs, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Fenggang Yang, Director, Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University Terrill E. Lautz, Vice President and Secretary, Henry Luce Foundation |
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| Welcoming Remarks: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
March 25, 2008
| Speakers: | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University Law School Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School |
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| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Video
Watch experts discuss the role of religion with regard to the state.
This symposium was made possible by the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation.
See more in Nation Building, Religion
March 25, 2008
| Speakers: | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University Law School Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School |
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| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the role of religion with regard to the state.
This symposium was made possible by the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation.
See more in Nation Building, Religion
March 25, 2008
| Speakers: | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University Law School Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Philip Hamburger, Columbia University Law School |
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| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow For U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
Experts discuss trends in religion and foreign policy.
See more in Religion
March 2008
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
The Atlantic
Walter Russell Mead discusses how America’s evangelicals are growing more moderate—and more powerful.
See more in United States, Religion, U.S. Election 2008
March 12, 2008
| Presider: | Robert McMahon, Deputy Editor, CFR.org |
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| Panelists: | Peter David, Foreign Editor, The Economist Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations Craig Calhoun, University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University |
Video
Experts from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economist, and New York University discuss the public diplomacy challenges facing a new U.S. administration.
February 6, 2008
Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Walter Russell Mead, an award-winning historian, discusses the importance of national security credentials and religion in the presidential nominating contests.
See more in United States, Elections
January 10, 2008
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Walter Russell Mead writes that the “danger of war between the U.S. and Iran over free passage in the Straits is very real.”
See more in United States, Iran, Wars and Warfare
December 27, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Walter Russell Mead writes that “few subjects matter as much as oil, the Persian Gulf and American foreign policy. But few subjects are less well understood.”
See more in Gulf States, Energy Security, U.S. Strategy and Politics
December 26, 2007
Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, The Council on Foreign Relations
Interview
Walter Russell Mead, a leading American historian, says that President Bush’s record in foreign policy has improved a bit in the second term, recovering traditional ground in Europe, and now showing some progress in Iraq. He says in the Middle East, as a whole, the administration has lacked proper follow-through.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
December 23, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Walter Russell Mead writes that “Britain, the country that did more than any other to shape the world system in which we still live, is warming up for an encore.”
See more in U.K.
November 30, 2007
| Speakers: | William Martin, Chavanne Senior fellow for Religious Policy, Rice University Andrew Preston, Professor of History, Cambridge University Leo P. Ribuffo, Society of the Cincinnati, George Washington, Distringuished Professor of History, George Washington University |
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Transcript
William Martin, Chavanne Senior fellow for Religious Policy, Rice University, Andrew Preston, Professor of History, Cambridge University, and Leo Ribuffo, Society of the Cincinnati, George Washington, Distringuished Professor of History, George Washington University, discuss the political position of Evangelicals in Foreign Policy.
See more in United States, Society and Culture, Religion, U.S. Strategy and Politics
November 30, 2007
| Speakers: | William Martin, Harry and Hazel Chavanne Senior Fellow for Religion and Public Policy, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University Andrew Preston, Professor of History, Clare College, Cambridge University Leo P. Ribuffo, Society of the Cincinnati George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, George Washington University |
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| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the historical impact of American evangelical Christians on U.S. foreign policy.
See more in Religion, Foreign Policy History
November 30, 2007
| Speakers: | William Martin, Harry and Hazel Chavanne Senior Fellow for Religion and Public Policy, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University Andrew Preston, Professor of History, Clare College, Cambridge University Leo P. Ribuffo, Society of the Cincinnati George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, George Washington University |
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| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Video
Watch experts discuss the historical impact of American evangelical Christians on U.S. foreign policy.
See more in Foreign Policy History
November 21, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
National Interest online
Walter Russell Mead argues that “a Sarkozy who overcomes the transport unions will take a decisive step toward the modernization of France.”
November 16, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
New York Sun
See more in Ethnicity and National Identity
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America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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In this Council Special Report, the authors make a strong case that the Bush administration’s policy of diplomatic isolation of Syria is not serving U.S. interests, and offer informed history and thoughtful analysis of the country and its external behavior.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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