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Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations (on leave)
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Phone: +1-650-725-9496
E-mail: esherwood-randall@cfr.org
Location:
Stanford, CA
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Senior researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Currently examining the role that alliances should play in U.S. national security.
Expertise:National security; proliferation prevention; defense leadership and management; alliance relations; Europe; NATO and the European Union; the former Soviet Union; Central Asia; China.
Experience:Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia (1994-96); Associate Director, Harvard Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project (1990-93); guest scholar, Brookings Institution (1988); Chief Foreign Affairs and Defense Policy Adviser to Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (1986-87).
Languages:French (fluent); Russian and Spanish (conversational).
Honors:Carnegie Scholar (2004); Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal (1995); Rhodes Scholarship (1981).
Selected Publications:"Is NATO Dead or Alive?" (The Huffington Post, April 1, 2008); “The Case for Alliances” (Joint Force Quarterly); “Alliances and American National Security” (U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute); Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations (coauthor, Council Special Report, 2006); “The Case for Discriminate Force” (coauthor, Survival, 2002); “Managing the Pentagon's International Relations” (chapter, in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future, MIT Press,2001); Allies in Crisis: Meeting Global Challenges to Western Security (Yale University Press, 1990).
Current Research Projects
April 1, 2008
Op-Ed
Huffington Post
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall notes that, “NATO is actually doing far less than it should be doing. The current pace of operations creates a crisis-like environment in which the urgent crowds out the important.”
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March 27, 2008
Audio
Listen to CFR experts discuss the upcoming NATO summit and NATO operations in Afghanistan.
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![CFR Conference Call: The Upcoming NATO Summit [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]](/content/publications/images/natocanadian-troops.jpg)
March 27, 2008
Transcript
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Fall 2007
Article
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
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July 3, 2006
Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in Turkey, Public Diplomacy
June 22, 2006
Op-Ed
Washingtonpost.com
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June 22, 2006
Transcript
Council Fellows Steven A. Cook and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall joined presider Marc Grossman, former ambassador to Turkey, in a presentation of a new Council Special Report. Underscoring the importance of the US-Turkey relationship, they expressed support for Turkey’s integration into the European Union, called for the resolution of the Cyprusissue, and suggested trilateral talks between Turkey, theU.S. and legitimate Kurdish-Iraqi leaders.
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June 22, 2006
Audio
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June 21, 2006
News Release
“The growing schism between the West and the Islamic world is one of the primary challenges confronting American foreign and defense policymakers. As a consequence, the relationship between the United States and Turkey—a Western-oriented, democratizing Muslim country—is strategically more important than ever,” asserts a new Special Report.
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June 2006
Council Special Report No. 15
Council Special Report
This Council Special Report makes the case that Turkey’s strategic importance to the United States is greater than ever, and that a major effort needs to be undertaken to renew and revitalize the relationship.
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April 4, 2006
Transcript
Former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin and Congresswoman Jane Harman discuss intelligence support to the military. McLaughlin stresses "it's important we not think about this subject uniquely as supporting troops in battle," opening up the meeting to a broad range of intelligence issues, while Harman weighs in on the effects of recent reform legislation.
See more in Defense Strategy, Intelligence
November 11, 2004
Transcript
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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.
Complete list of CFR Books.
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.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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