Gideon Rose

Gideon Rose

Editor, Foreign Affairs, and Peter G. Peterson Chair, Foreign Affairs

Contact Info:

Phone: +1.212.434.9629
E-mail: grose@cfr.org

Location:

New York, NY

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Former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration; expert on national security and terrorism. Author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, October 2010).

Expertise:

International conflict; Middle East, Persian Gulf, and South Asia; terrorism; economic sanctions.

Experience:

Editor, Foreign Affairs (2010-Present); (Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs (2000-2010); Olin Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations (1995-2000); Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council (1994-95).

Selected Publications:

“Democracy Promotion and American Foreign Policy,” International Security (Winter 2000/2001); “Conservatism and American Foreign Policy: Present Laughter vs. Utopian Bliss,” The National Interest (Fall 1999); “It Could Happen Here: Facing the New Terrorism,” Foreign Affairs (March/April 1999); “The Rollback Fantasy,” Foreign Affairs (January/February 1999), with Daniel Byman and Kenneth Pollack; “The Exit Strategy Delusion,” Foreign Affairs (January/February 1998). Edited volumes (with James F. Hoge Jr.): Understanding the War on Terror (2005); America and the World (2002); How Did This Happen? (2001). Book: How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, 2010).

Education:

PhD, Harvard University

BA, Yale University

Past Research Projects

Publications

Audio

Media Conference Call: Future of U.S. Defense Spending

Speaker: Andrew F. Krepinevich
Presider: Gideon Rose

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments President Andrew Krepinevich talks about the future of defense spending, and how spending cuts could impact U.S. security interests, with Foreign Affairs magazine editor Gideon Rose.

Audio

Media Conference Call: Brennan Confirmation Hearings

Speaker: Sarah Holewinski
Presiders: Micah Zenko and Gideon Rose

Center for Civilians in Conflict Executive Director Sarah Holewinski and CFR Douglas Dillon Fellow Micah Zenko discuss the confirmation hearing of John Brennan to head the CIA as well as Brennan's likely approach to U.S. drone strike policies if he is confirmed.

Video

2012 Arthur Ross Book Award

Speaker: John Lewis Gaddis
Presider: Gideon Rose

The 2012 Arthur Ross Book Award event honors gold medal recipient John Lewis Gaddis for his book George F. Kennan: An American Life, as well as silver medalist Jason Stearns and honorable mention Daniel Yergin.

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2012 Arthur Ross Book Award

Speaker: John Lewis Gaddis
Presider: Gideon Rose

The 2012 Arthur Ross Book Award event honors gold medal recipient John Lewis Gaddis for his book George F. Kennan: An American Life, as well as silver medalist Jason Stearns and honorable mention Daniel Yergin.

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Transcript

2012 Arthur Ross Book Award

Speaker: John Lewis Gaddis
Presider: Gideon Rose

The 2012 Arthur Ross Book Award event honors gold medal recipient John Lewis Gaddis for his book George F. Kennan: An American Life, as well as silver medalist Jason Stearns and honorable mention Daniel Yergin.

Video

Iran and the Bomb: Hold or Hit?

Speakers: Matthew H. Kroenig and Trita Parsi
Presider: Gideon Rose

Matthew H. Kroenig and Trita Parsi debate whether an outside power should strike Iran to stop its nuclear program, as part of CFR's Third Annual Back-to-School Event.

Learn more about CFR's resources for the classroom at Educators Home.

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Iran and the Bomb: Hold or Hit?

Speakers: Matthew H. Kroenig and Trita Parsi
Presider: Gideon Rose

Matthew H. Kroenig and Trita Parsi debate whether an outside power should strike Iran to stop its nuclear program, as part of CFR's Third Annual Back-to-School Event.

Learn more about CFR's resources for the classroom at Educators Home.

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Transcript

A Conversation With Moncef Marzouki

Speaker: Moncef Marzouki
Presider: Gideon Rose

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki discusses the successes, difficulties and future challenges of the democratic revolution that has swept over his country in the last year and a half.

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Media Conference Call: The Chicago NATO Summit

Speaker: Ivo H. Daalder
Presiders: Gideon Rose and Rachel Bronson

Listen to U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO Ivo Daalder discuss the Chicago NATO Summit with Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' Rachel Bronson.

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A Conversation with Network News Executives

Introductory Speaker: Richard N. Haass
Panelists: Stephen A. Capus, Ken Jautz, David Rhodes, and Benjamin B. Sherwood

Executives from NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, and CNN discuss the future of the news media, including the importance of international news coverage, the rise of online news, and the effects of technology on the industry.

This meeting was made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation.

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Video

A Conversation with Network News Executives

Speakers: Stephen A. Capus, Ken Jautz, David Rhodes, and Benjamin B. Sherwood
Introductory Speaker: Richard N. Haass
Presider: Gideon Rose


Executives from NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, and CNN discuss the future of the news media, including the importance of international news coverage, the rise of online news, and the effects of technology on the industry.

This meeting was made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation.

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Audio

A Conversation with Network News Executives (Audio)

Speakers: Stephen A. Capus, Ken Jautz, David Rhodes, and Benjamin B. Sherwood
Introductory Speaker: Richard N. Haass
Presider: Gideon Rose


Executives from NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, and CNN discuss the future of the news media, including the importance of international news coverage, the rise of online news, and the effects of technology on the industry.

This meeting was made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation.

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Policy Responses for the United States and Europe

Speakers: Robert M. Danin and Eugene Rogan
Presider: Gideon Rose


Robert Danin, CFR's Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies, and Eugene Rogan, faculty fellow and university lecturer in the modern history of the Middle East at University of Oxford's St. Antony's College, analyze the reactions of the United States and Europe to the Arab uprisings.

This session was part of a CFR symposium, Implications of the Arab Uprisings, which was made possible by the generous support of Rita E. Hauser, and organized in cooperation with University of Oxford's St. Antony's College.

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Policy Responses for the United States and Europe (Audio)

Speakers: Robert M. Danin and Eugene Rogan
Presider: Gideon Rose


Robert Danin, CFR's Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies, and Eugene Rogan, faculty fellow and university lecturer in the modern history of the Middle East at University of Oxford's St. Antony's College, analyze the reactions of the United States and Europe to the Arab uprisings.

This session was part of a CFR symposium, Implications of the Arab Uprisings, which was made possible by the generous support of Rita E. Hauser, and organized in cooperation with University of Oxford's St. Antony's College.

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