Linda Robinson

Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy

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Renewing America and Renewing America and Women and Foreign Policy Program

Women Voters’ Pivotal Role in Electing the Next U.S. President

April 3, 2024

Progress on the Status of Women and Girls Off Track in UN Assessment

September 21, 2023

Renewing America and Renewing America and Women Around the World and Women and Foreign Policy Program

Biden’s Progress on Women’s Rights: Good Start, But Not Fast Enough

March 14, 2023

Renewing America and Renewing America and Women Around the World and Women and Foreign Policy Program

Women in the 118th Congress: Halting Progress, Storm Clouds Ahead

March 9, 2023

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Linda Robinson is senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) where she writes about women's political and economic leadership, the relationship between gender equality and democracy, technology-facilitated violence, and current international affairs. She was previously a senior international researcher and director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation. She has also been a fellow at the Wilson Center, the Merrill Center at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. A former foreign correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and senior editor at Foreign Affairs, Ms. Robinson provides frequent commentary on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Her books include Masters of Chaos, a New York Times bestseller; Tell Me How This Ends, a Foreign Affairs bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of 2008; One Hundred Victories, about Afghanistan; and Intervention or Neglect, about Central America. She received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defense and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for reporting on Latin America. She has published over twenty RAND studies and hundreds of articles based on extensive field research, and has testified before Congress on special operations, the Iraq war, and the Middle East.

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