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Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Author of Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning and professor at Columbia University. Commissioner to the National Commission on Terrorism and former staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Current work examines the U.S. national security agenda.
Intelligence and U.S. defense policy; military strategy; political and military intelligence; international conflict; terrorism.
Phone: +1-212-854-7325
Email: rkb4@columbia.edu
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Award-winning author and former editorial editor for The Wall Street Journal. Author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. Currently writing a history of guerrilla warfare.
Defense policy; defense budget; proliferation; nation-building and peacekeeping; democracy and human rights; U.S. grand strategy; national security; military technology; military history; U.S. foreign policy; terrorism and guerilla warfare; terrorism; media.
Phone: +1.212.434.9619
Email: mboot@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Recipient of the Robert S. Landauer Memorial Lecturer Award for outstanding scientific achievement toward improving the security of radioactive sources. Author of the Council Special Report Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks and director of the Council Special Report China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies; arms control, climate change, energy policy, and nuclear energy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: cferguson@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for Europe Studies
Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and former director for European affairs at the National Security Council. Currently writing a book on the international order and how to preserve transatlantic peace.
NATO; European Union; U.S. national security; nationalism; the Balkans.
Phone: +1-202-509-8402
Email: ckupchan@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Former senior director for strategic planning and institutional reform, National Security Council staff. Author of Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Random House, 2005). Current work focuses on strengthening the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
U.S. national security policy; nuclear nonproliferation; diplomatic history; structure and process of U.S. national security policymaking.
Phone: +1.202.509.8475
Email: plettow@cfr.org
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Author of On Nuclear Terrorism, released November 2007. Directed the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change.
Climate change; energy policy; weapons of mass destruction; homeland security; arms control and proliferation; technology and foreign policy; science and technology in the Islamic world.
Phone: +1-212-434-9495
Email: mlevi@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia
Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy in South Asia, especially Pakistan and India.
South Asia; U.S. foreign policy; international security; international relations theory.
Phone: +1-202-509-8441
Email: dmarkey@cfr.org
Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
Former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration; expert on national security and terrorism.
International conflict; Middle East, Persian Gulf, and South Asia; terrorism; economic sanctions.
Phone: +1-212-434-9629
Email: grose@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran's Approach to the World (Oxford University Press, May 2009). Served as senior adviser to the special adviser for the Gulf and Southwest Asia at the U.S. Department of State.
Iran; Persian Gulf and U.S. foreign policy.
Phone: +1.202.509.8432
Email: rtakeyh@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Recipient of the Robert S. Landauer Memorial Lecturer Award for outstanding scientific achievement toward improving the security of radioactive sources. Author of the Council Special Report Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks and director of the Council Special Report China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies; arms control, climate change, energy policy, and nuclear energy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: cferguson@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for Europe Studies
Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and former director for European affairs at the National Security Council. Currently writing a book on the international order and how to preserve transatlantic peace.
NATO; European Union; U.S. national security; nationalism; the Balkans.
Phone: +1-202-509-8402
Email: ckupchan@cfr.org
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Author of On Nuclear Terrorism, released November 2007. Directed the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change.
Climate change; energy policy; weapons of mass destruction; homeland security; arms control and proliferation; technology and foreign policy; science and technology in the Islamic world.
Phone: +1-212-434-9495
Email: mlevi@cfr.org
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
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.
U.S. foreign policy; Congress; domestic politics; news media and public opinion.
Phone: +1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
Email: jlindsay@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia
Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy in South Asia, especially Pakistan and India.
South Asia; U.S. foreign policy; international security; international relations theory.
Phone: +1-202-509-8441
Email: dmarkey@cfr.org
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Expert on emerging regional and international security challenges. Led the bipartisan Genocide Prevention Task Force's Expert Group on Preventive Diplomacy. Currently focusing on future conflict trends and associated prevention strategies.
U.S. national security policy, conflict prevention strategies, U.S. counterterrorism policy, Northeast Asia security
Email: pstares@cfr.org
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Author of On Nuclear Terrorism, released November 2007. Directed the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change.
Climate change; energy policy; weapons of mass destruction; homeland security; arms control and proliferation; technology and foreign policy; science and technology in the Islamic world.
Phone: +1-212-434-9495
Email: mlevi@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia
Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy in South Asia, especially Pakistan and India.
South Asia; U.S. foreign policy; international security; international relations theory.
Phone: +1-202-509-8441
Email: dmarkey@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Recipient of the Robert S. Landauer Memorial Lecturer Award for outstanding scientific achievement toward improving the security of radioactive sources. Author of the Council Special Report Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks and director of the Council Special Report China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies; arms control, climate change, energy policy, and nuclear energy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: cferguson@cfr.org
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Author of On Nuclear Terrorism, released November 2007. Directed the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change.
Climate change; energy policy; weapons of mass destruction; homeland security; arms control and proliferation; technology and foreign policy; science and technology in the Islamic world.
Phone: +1-212-434-9495
Email: mlevi@cfr.org
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
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.
U.S. foreign policy; Congress; domestic politics; news media and public opinion.
Phone: +1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
Email: jlindsay@cfr.org
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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
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Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1.212.434.9753
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