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Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance
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Phone: +1-202-464-2679
E-mail: spatrick@cfr.org
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Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy toward global governance. Author of The Best Laid Plans, released in November 2008.
Expertise:Multilateral cooperation, international institutions and global governance; United Nations; weak and failing states; foreign assistance and post-conflict reconstruction; transnational threats; U.S. foreign policy; diplomatic history.
Experience:Research Fellow, Center for Global Development (2005-2008); Policy planning staff member, Afghanistan, post-conflict and global affairs portfolios, U.S. Department of State (2002-2005); Research Associate, Center on International Cooperation, New York University(1997-2002).
Languages:French (proficient).
Honors:International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (2002-2003); Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University (1988-1991); Brookings Research Fellow (1992-93); Guest Research Fellowship, Norwegian Nobel Institute (1993).
Selected Publications:The Best Laid Plans:The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield, November 2008); "U.S. Policy toward Fragile States: An Integrated Approach to Security and Development," in The White House and the World: A Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President (Center for Global Development, August 2008); "‘The Mission Determines the Coalition:’ The United States and Multilateral Cooperation after 9/11,” in Cooperating for Peace and Security (forthcoming 2008); “Index of State Weakness in the Developing World,” Brookings Working Paper (2008); Integrating 21st Century Development and Security Assistance (contributor; 2008); “A Return to Realism? The United States and Global Peace Operations since 9/11,” International Peacekeeping (2007); Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Assessing “Whole of Government” Approaches toward Fragile States, (co-author, International Peace Academy: 2007); “Toolbox: Making Foreign Aid Reform Work,” The American Interest (2007); “The Pentagon and Global Development: Making Sense of the DoD’s Expanding Role,” CGD Working Paper #131 (2007); "Beyond Coalitions of the Willing: Assessing U.S. Multilateralism," Ethics and International Affairs (2003); Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement (coeditor, Lynne Rienner, 2002); Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Post-Conflict Recovery (co-editor, Lynne Rienner, 2000); and op-eds published in Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Miami Herald, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Summary Report of CFR Symposium on International Law and Justice (October 17, 2008)
Current Research Projects
November 13, 2008
Op-Ed
National Interest online
Stewart Patrick argues that the November 15 meeting of the G20 will likely not result in a breakthrough similar to the one at the original Bretton Woods.
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September 25, 2008
Op-Ed
The Olympian
Stewart Patrick discusses why President Bush's address to the U.N. had the right content, but lacked validity.
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September 17, 2008
Article
Center for Global Development
This chapter by Stewart Patrick is excerpted from the book The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President and addresses how the United States must reformulate how it handles failing, failed and war-torn states.
See more in International Peace and Security, U.S. Election 2008
July 28, 2008
Interview
Stewart M. Patrick, a former member of the State Department's Policy Planning staff, discusses the utility of international courts in combating rampant rights abuses.
See more in Global Governance, International Law
July 11, 2008
Op-Ed
Bellville News-Democrat
Today's global architecture should reflect contemporary power realities that have developed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, writes Stewart Patrick. Instead, the world must make do with creaky bodies like the G8, United Nations, IMF and NATO, whose agendas, capabilities and governance structures reflect a world that no longer exists.
See more in International Organizations
June 17, 2008
Testimony
In testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development, Foreign Assistance, and International Environmental Protection, Stewart M. Patrick discusses policy options for international disaster assistance.
See more in Congress
Updated: May 27, 2008
Online Debate
CFR Senior Fellow Stewart M. Patrick and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation debate the merits of supporting the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
See more in International Law, Sovereignty, Humanitarian Intervention
May 15, 2008
Op-Ed
Baltimore Sun
Stewart Patrick addresses the difficult question of whether or not the UN should intervene in Myanmar and do something about the “callous indifference” that the ruling junta is showing towards its people.
See more in Burma/Myanmar, International Organizations, Humanitarian Intervention
December 10, 2007
Video
Watch experts discuss strategies for preventing conflict in the years ahead, with particular regard to weak or failing states.
See more in International Peace and Security, Conflict Prevention
December 10, 2007
Transcript
A transcript of the CFR session three symposium on the future of conflict prevention.
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December 10, 2007
Audio
Listen to experts discuss strategies for preventing conflict in the years ahead, with particular regard to weak or failing states.
See more in International Peace and Security, Conflict Prevention
March 2006
Must Read
In this Washington Quarterly report Stewart Patrick looks at the U.S. defense strategy of strengthening the sovereign capacities of weak states to combat internal threats of terrorism, insurgency, and organized crime.
See more in Defense Strategy, Nation Building, Terrorism
In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
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.
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This report lays out a thoughtful agenda for U.S. policy toward the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguing that what happens there should matter to the United States--for humanitarian reasons as well as economic and strategic ones.
In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.
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