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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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.

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