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Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
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Phone: +1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
E-mail: jlindsay@cfr.org
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New York, NY and Washington, DC
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Award-winning coauthor of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy and former director for global issues and multilateral affairs at the National Security Council.
Expertise:U.S. foreign policy; Congress; domestic politics; news media and public opinion.
Experience:Director, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin (2006-2009); Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations (2003-2006); Deputy Director and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution (1999-2003); Consultant to the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, Hart-Rudman Commission, (2000-2001); Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa (1987-99); Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council (1996-97).
Honors:Winner of the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize for America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, chosen by The Economist as one of the best books of 2003; International Affairs Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations (1995); Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs (1990).
Selected Publications:America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (coauthor, Brookings Institution Press, 2003); Agenda for the Nation (coeditor, Brookings Institution Press, 2003); Protecting the American Homeland: One Year On (coauthor, Brookings Institution Press, 2003); Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense (coauthor, Brookings Institution Press, 2001); U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War (coeditor, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997); Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Congress Resurgent: Foreign and Defense Policy on Capitol Hill (coeditor, University of Michigan Press, 1993); Congress and Nuclear Weapons (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
Current Research Project
November 18, 2009
Audio
Listen to experts discuss organized crime including the circumstances under which criminal activities constitute a threat to national security.
This session was part of the CFR symposium, Organized Crime in the Western Hemisphere: An Overlooked Threat?, undertaken in collaboration with the Latin American Program and Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and made possible by the generous support of the Hauser Foundation, Tinker Foundation, and a grant from the Robina Foundation for CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance program.
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November 18, 2009
Video
Watch experts discuss organized crime including the circumstances under which criminal activities constitute a threat to national security.
This session was part of the CFR symposium, Organized Crime in the Western Hemisphere: An Overlooked Threat?, undertaken in collaboration with the Latin American Program and Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and made possible by the generous support of the Hauser Foundation, Tinker Foundation, and a grant from the Robina Foundation for CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance program.
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September 22, 2009
Audio
Listen to Ray Takeyh, CFR's senior fellow for middle eastern studies, and James Lindsay, CFR's director of studies, discuss nuclear proliferation and Iran's nuclear program in advance of high-level talks at the United Nations.
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September 22, 2009
Transcript
Ray Takeyh and James M. Lindsay discuss Iran and nonproliferation.
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September 17, 2009
First Take
In this First Take, CFR's James M. Lindsay says President Obama's decision to alter missile defense plans in Eastern Europe makes sense from a military standpoint but he faces challenges in selling the strategy to Americans.
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September 29, 2008
Interview
James M. Lindsay, an expert on U.S. foreign policy, and a former director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses the first presidential debate between Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama.
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January 29, 2008
Interview
James M. Lindsay, an expert on U.S. politics and foreign policy, says President Bush will be regarded as “a below-average president” due to issues like Iraq and immigration reform.
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Updated: November 9, 2006
Interview
James M. Lindsay, an expert on Congress and American foreign policy, says in the aftermath of the Democratic Party victories in the midterm elections, many politicians are hoping that the “knight in shining armor” to rescue Iraq policy may lie in the special commission headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Lee Hamilton.
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October 1, 2006
Article
American Prospect
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June 18, 2006
Op-Ed
The Washington Post
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May 15, 2006
Transcript
Professors Robert Keohane and Peter Katzenstein join CFR fellow Julia Sweig in exploring the various forms of Anti-Americanism across regions and governments as a complex yet powerful global phenomenon.
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May 15, 2006
Audio
Listen to Professors Robert Keohane and Peter Katzenstein and Council Senior Fellow Julia Sweig explore the complex global phenomenon of anti-Americanism.
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May 15, 2006
Video
Listen to Professors Robert Keohane and Peter Katzenstein and Council Senior Fellow Julia Sweig explore the complex global phenomenon of anti-Americanism.
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May 11, 2006
Interview
James M. Lindsay, CFR Vice President and Director of Studies, says President Bush's public approval ratings "are down because he's in trouble in his foreign policy, most notably in Iraq." Says Lindsay: "He has gone from being seen as a man in control of events, in charge of his administration, to being perceived as someone who does not command in government."
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February 1, 2006
Interview
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December 19, 2005
Interview
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December 8, 2005
Interview
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November 27, 2005
Op-Ed
Baltimore Sun
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October 14, 2005
Op-Ed
San Jose Mercury News
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October 11, 2005
Interview
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In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
jlindsay@cfr.org
Janine Hill
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1.212.434.9753
jhill@cfr.org
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