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Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations
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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 (op-ed, April 1, 2008); Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations, A Council Special Report (coauthor, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2006); “The Case for Alliances,” Joint Forces Quarterly 43, no. 4 (2006); “The Case for Discriminate Force,” Survival (coauthor, Winter 2003-2004); Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future (coauthor, MIT Press, 2001); Window of Opportunity: The Grand Bargain for Democracy in the Soviet Union (coauthor, Pantheon, 1991); Allies in Crisis: Meeting Global Challenges to Western Security (Yale University Press, 1990).
Current Research Projects
April 1, 2008
| Author: | Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations |
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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.”
See more in NATO, NATO, Peacekeeping, Public Diplomacy
March 27, 2008
| Speakers: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Anya Schmemann, Director, Communications and Marketing, Council on Foreign Relations |
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
| Speakers: | James M. Goldgeier, Senior Fellow for Translatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Anya Schmemann, Director of Communications, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
See more in NATO
Fall 2007
| Author: | Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations |
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Article
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
See more in United States, Turkey, Iraq, Conflict Prevention
July 3, 2006
| Authors: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in Turkey, Public Diplomacy
June 22, 2006
| Authors: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations |
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Op-Ed
Washingtonpost.com
See more in United States, Turkey, Public Diplomacy
June 22, 2006
| Speakers: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations coauthors of CFR Special Report: “Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations” |
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| Presider: | Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman, the Cohen Group, and Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey |
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.
See more in Turkey, EU, U.S. Strategy and Politics
June 22, 2006
| Speakers: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; and coauthor, Council Special Report, Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations; and coauthor, Council Special Report, Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations |
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| Presider: | Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group; and former United States Ambassador to Turkey |
Audio
See more in Turkey
June 2006
| Authors: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations |
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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.
See more in United States, Turkey, Public Diplomacy
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.
See more in United States, Turkey, U.S. Strategy and Politics
April 4, 2006
| Speakers: | Jane Harman, Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Ca) John E. McLaughlin, Senior Fellow, Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, SAIS; Former Acting Director of the CIA |
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| Presider: | Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
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
February 17, 2005
| Speakers: | James M. Goldgeier, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies, Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Transcript
November 11, 2004
| Speaker: | Timothy Garton Ash, Director, the European Studies Center, St. Anthony's College, Oxford University; author, "Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West" |
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| Presider: | Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct senior fellow, Europe studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
See more in Europe/Russia, U.S. Strategy and Politics
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