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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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New York, NY
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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
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
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
November 1, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Article
Prospect
See more in U.K., U.S. Strategy and Politics
October 17, 2007
| Speaker: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World |
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| Presider: | Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach |
Audio
Listen to Walter Russell Mead, CFR Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy, lead a conversation on his new book, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series.
See more in Religion
October 17, 2007
| Speaker: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy; Council on Foreign Relations; Author, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World |
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| Presider: | Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
See more in Religion
October 14, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
See more in China, Japan, India, Emerging Markets, Geoeconomics
October 12, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Article
New Republic Online
See more in United States, Foreign Policy History
October 9, 2007
| Speaker: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations |
Video
Watch Walter Russell Mead, CFR's Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow, discuss his newest book, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World.
See more in United States, U.K., U.S. Strategy and Politics
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