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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
Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance
Former director of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Institute for Leadership. Adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University working on issues related to the foreign policy implications of the melting Arctic, homeland security, and the future of shipping. Currently directing a roundtable series on strategic ocean governance.
The Arctic; ocean policy; homeland security; U.S. foreign policy; shipping.
Phone: +1-212-434-9618
Email: sborgerson@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Author of the forthcoming book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: Women and Reform in the Middle East (Random House). Recently coauthored Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security. Director of CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program.
Economic development; gender issues in the Middle East and Southwest Asia; foreign aid; microfinance; education reform in the Middle East.
Phone: +1-212-434-9771
Email: icoleman@cfr.org
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey. Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward reform in the Arab world. Currently writing a book on the future of U.S.-Egypt relations.
Politics in the Arab world; U.S.-Middle East policy; Turkish politics; civil-military relations in the Middle East; Arab-Israeli conflict.
Phone: +1-202-509-8620
Email: scook@cfr.org
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
Award-winning author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China’s Future. Currently writing a book on the implications of China’s global quest for natural resources.
Chinese domestic and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; global environmental issues.
Phone: +1-212-434-9641
Email: eeconomy@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for East, Central, and South Asia
Former deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, deputy assistant secretary of state for Central Asia, and member of the policy planning staff for East Asia. Author of books on China. Now writing a book on the reemergence of Asia as an integrated strategic space and the global implications of the rise of Asian power.
China, India, Central Asia, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia; energy, Caspian oil and gas; China and India as emerging global powers; economic integration in East, Central, and South Asia; U.S. foreign policy; new global and Asian regional architecture.
Phone: +1.202.509.8528
Email: efeigenbaum@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Professor of law at Harvard University. Author of After Jihad, What We Owe Iraq, and Divided by God. Former senior constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, released in April 2008.
Relationship between law and religion in both the Western and Middle Eastern context; Middle East politics; North Africa; Islamic constitutional thought.
Email: noah_feldman@harvard.edu
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of the Council report HIV and National Security: Where are the Links? Presently writing a book examining the global impact of infectious disease.
Global health systems; chronic and infectious diseases; bioterrorism; public health and its effects on foreign policy and national security.
Phone: +1-212-434-9749
Email: ealavian@cfr.org
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations
Award-winning author, former State Department official, and staff member of the National Security Council. Professor of political science and international politics at George Washington University. Latest book is America Between the Wars (with Derek Chollet, PublicAffairs Books, June 2008).
Transatlantic relations; U.S.-Russian relations; NATO; the European Union.
Phone: +1-202-509-8424
Email: jimg@gwu.edu
President, Council on Foreign Relations
Former State Department director of policy planning and lead U.S. official on Afghanistan and Northern Ireland (2001 - 2003), and principal Middle East adviser to President George H.W. Bush (1989 - 1993). Author or editor of eleven books on U.S. foreign policy, including War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars.
U.S. foreign policy; international security; globalization; Asia; Middle East
Phone: +1-212-434-9543; for all media requests, contact Lisa Shields at +1-212-434-9888 or lshields@cfr.org
Email: president@cfr.org
Vice President, Washington Program
Former deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs and vice president for external relations at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
U.S. foreign policy; Congress and foreign policy; media and public opinion; international education.
Phone: +1-202-509-8400
Email: kking@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 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
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies
Former U.S. ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria and former assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force that produced the report More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa; economic development; democratization and elections; civil reconstruction; conflict prevention; global governance; United Nations; HIV/AIDS.
Phone: +1.202.509.8524
Email: swittels@cfr.org
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Award-winning author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. Author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, released in October 2007. Author of a blog at The American Interest.
U.S. foreign policy; international political economy; domestic politics; religion and foreign policy.
Phone: +1-212-434-9548
Email: wmead@cfr.org
Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance
Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy toward global governance. Author of The Best Laid Plans, released in November 2008.
Multilateral cooperation, international institutions and global governance; United Nations; weak and failing states; foreign assistance and post-conflict reconstruction; transnational threats; U.S. foreign policy; diplomatic history.
Phone: +1.202.509.8482
Email: spatrick@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
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Former ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state for policy toward the states of the former Soviet Union. Directed the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force that produced the report Russia’s Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do.
Russia and the former Soviet Union; Caucasus and Central Asia; U.S. foreign policy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8454
Email: ssestanovich@cfr.org
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
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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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