Speaker Biographies

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STEPHEN BOSWORTH

Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University since February 2001. U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from November 1997 - February 2001.

From 1995-1997, Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, an international consortium formed to oversee implementation of the U.S./North Korean Agreed Framework on Nuclear Matters.

From 1988 to 1996, President and CEO of the United States-Japan Foundation, a private foundation with programs in education, public and private leadership exchanges, and policy studies.

Prior to this appointment, he was an officer in the Department of State for 25 years, serving in a number of capacities including two appointments as U.S. Ambassador. From 1979 to 1981 he served as Ambassador to Tunisia, and from 1984 to 1987 he served as Ambassador to the Philippines during the transition from the regime of Ferdinand Marcos to that of Corazon Aquino.

He has also held several senior positions in the State Department including Director of Policy Planning, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs.

He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a non-resident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace.

Honors include:

• Diplomat of the Year Award, given by the Academy for Diplomacy (1987)
• Distinguished Honor Award from the Department of State (1976 and l986)
• Arthur S. Fleming Award as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Officials in Federal Government (1976)
• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star – Government of Japan (2005)

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DANIEL DREZNER

Daniel W. Drezner is associate professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He has previously taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He is the author of All Politics is Global (Princeton, 2007), U.S. Trade Policy (Council on Foreign Relations, 2006), and The Sanctions Paradox (Cambridge, 1999). Drezner has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. He has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University, and has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation and the Treasury Department. He is a regular commentator for Newsweek International and NPR’s Marketplace. He keeps a daily weblog at www.danieldrezner.com. His next book, An Unclean Slate, will examine the future of global governance.

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ANDREW ERDMANN

Andrew Erdmann is a management consultant. His client experience spans retail, energy, and high tech industries, as well as the public sector. Between 2001 and 2005, Erdmann served in a variety of foreign policy positions in the U.S. Government including the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and the National Security Council staff as Director for Iran, Iraq, and Strategic Planning. In 2006, he served as an expert advisor to the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group. Before entering government service, Erdmann was a historian. He has taught international affairs at Harvard University and George Washington University. He has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, and Department of State. Erdmann has B.A. degrees from Williams College and Oxford University, and received an A.M. and Ph.D. in History from Harvard University.

 

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LEE FEINSTEIN

Lee Feinstein currently serves as Director for Foreign Policy and National Security for Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Prior to this he was a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy and deputy director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of expertise include weapons of mass destruction, the United Nations, foreign policy process, and international law.

Feinstein served at the Departments of Defense and State from 1994-2001. He was special assistant for peacekeeping policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1994-95. He served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff under Secretary of State Warren Christopher and as principal deputy director of policy planning under Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright.

Feinstein is currently writing a book on legitimacy and international institutions. He is the author, with Anne-Marie Slaughter, of “A Duty to Prevent” in the January/February 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs, an examination of the international community’s responsibility to act early and collectively to prevent closed societies from pursuing nuclear weapons. Feinstein directed the 2002 independent Task Force report, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and Freedom House, on Enhancing U.S. Relations with the UN. He directs a roundtable on global governance with the American Society of International Law. He is currently serving as an expert on the congressionally mandated Task Force on the United Nations, co- chaired by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and former Senator George Mitchell (D-ME).

Feinstein writes widely on national security and foreign policy and is a frequent guest commentator for television and radio. He holds a law degree from Georgetown University, and is admitted to the practice of law in New York and Washington, DC. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Board of Directors of the Arms Control Association, is a senior adviser to the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and a fellow of the Young Presidents Organization.

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AARON FRIEDBERG

 

Aaron Friedberg is currently Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of two books, The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905 (which received the Edgar Furniss National Security Book Award), and In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy. His areas of interest include international relations, international security in East Asia, foreign policy, and defense policy. Friedberg has been a fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, and has served as a consultant to several agencies of the U.S. government. In 2001-2002 he was the first holder of the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress. In 2003-2005 he served as a deputy assistant for National Security Affairs in the Office of the Vice President. He is a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. Ph.D. Harvard University.

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DAVID GORDON

Dr. David F. Gordon is Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. Prior to this he served in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) as Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). Previously, he served as the Director of CIA’s Office of Transnational Issues (OTI), an office that covers a broad range of national security and foreign policy issues, and as National Intelligence Officer for Economic and Global Issues on the NIC. He is a member of the Senior Intelligence Service of the United States.

Dr. Gordon’s background includes service as a Senior Fellow and Director at the Overseas Development Council, a senior staff member on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, and as the regional economic policy and democracy/governance advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development based in Nairobi, Kenya.

In the 1980s, Dr. Gordon pursued an academic career with a joint appointment at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. He has also taught at the College of William and Mary, Princeton University, Georgetown University and the University of Nairobi. Dr. Gordon’s latest book, Managing Strategic Surprise, co-edited with Ian Bremmer and Paul Bracken, will be published later this year by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. Gordon is a graduate of Bowdoin College and undertook graduate studies in both political science and economics at the University of Michigan, where he received his PhD in 1981.

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RICHARD HAASS

Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. Until June 2003, Richard Haass was director of policy planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns. Previously, Haass was vice president and director of foreign policy studies at The Brookings Institution. He was also special assistant to President George Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council from 1989 to1993. Haass is the author or editor of ten books on American foreign policy, including The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course. A Rhodes Scholar, he holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and both the Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University. He has received honorary doctorates from Hamilton College, Franklin & Marshall College, and Georgetown University.

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BRUCE W. JENTLESON

Bruce Jentleson is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, where he served from 2000-2005 as Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore and the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign (1999-2000) and was Special Assistant to the Director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff (1993-94). He currently serves on the Expert Advisory Group on Preventive Diplomacy of the national bipartisan Genocide Prevention Task Force. His publications include numerous articles as well as seven books including American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, a leading university text on American foreign policy (W.W. Norton, third edition 2007) and Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized: Preventive Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World, a project of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (2000). In 2006-07 he was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Spain. He is the Program Co-Chair for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. He has been a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council.

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JEFFREY W. LEGRO

Jeffrey W. Legro is Compton Professor of World Politics and Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is co-Chair of the Governing America in a Global Era Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. A specialist on international relations, Legro is the author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (2005) and Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II (1995), and a contributor to The Culture of National Security (1996). He is co-editor (with Melvyn Leffler) of To Lead the World: U.S. Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008). Legro’s most recent articles include “What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power,” Perspectives on Politics (September 2007) and “The Plasticity of Identity under Anarchy,” European Journal of International Relations (forthcoming). He is on the editorial board of the Washington Quarterly. In 2002–2003, Legro was a Fulbright professor at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing.

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JAMES M. LINDSAY

James M. Lindsay is Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. He was previously Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council of Foreign Relations, as well as Deputy Director and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Lindsay has written widely on various aspects of American foreign policy. He is the co-author of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Brookings Institution Press), which won the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize and was named a top book of 2003 by The Economist. He is also co-editor of Agenda for the Nation (Brookings Institution Press), which Choice Magazine selected as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2004. He began his career as a professor of political science at the University of Iowa. In 1996-1997, Lindsay served as Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council. He received his A.B. from the University of Michigan and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University.

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Tom Malinowski

Tom Malinowski has been Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch since April 2001, responsible for the organization’s overall advocacy effort with the United States government. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, he served as special assistant to President Bill Clinton, and as senior director for foreign policy speechwriting at the National Security Council. From 1994 to 1998, he was a speechwriter for Secretaries of State Christopher and Albright and a member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff. He has also worked for the Ford Foundation and as a legislative aide to US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He holds degrees in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He appears frequently as a radio, television, and op-ed commentator on US human rights policy worldwide.

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MEGHAN O’SULLIVAN

Meghan L. O'Sullivan, PhD. is a Senior Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center. Prior to joining the Belfer Center, O'Sullivan was an IOP Fellow in the Fall of 2007. O'Sullivan was Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, a position she maintained from October 2005 to September 2007. O'Sullivan was stationed in Baghdad, Iraq for the summer of 2007 at the request of the President, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and the Commanding General.

Prior to this appointment, O'Sullivan was with the National Security Council staff as Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan since July 2004. Before joining the NSC, O'Sullivan was political advisor to the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Deputy Director for Governance in Baghdad, Iraq from April 2003 to June 2004. There, she worked on national political issues, such as the creation of the Transitional Administrative Law and the formation of the Iraqi Interim Government.

From November 2001 to March 2003, O'Sullivan worked at the Office of Policy Planning at the Department of State, where she was the chief advisor to the presidential envoy to the Northern Ireland peace process and helped advance efforts to promote reform in the Muslim world.

From 1998-2001, O'Sullivan was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution. During that time, she was also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and published several books and articles on American foreign policy, including Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism (Brookings, 2003).

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PETER W. RODMAN

Peter W. Rodman is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. He has served in several positions in the U.S. government, including as a Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, as Director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, as special assistant to Henry Kissinger on the National Security Council staff, and, most recently, as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He is currently a member of the Defense Policy Board. Rodman was educated at Harvard College, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School.

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GIDEON ROSE

Gideon Rose has been Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs since December 2000. From 1995 to December 2000 he was the Olin Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, during which time he served as Chairman of the Council's Roundtable on Terrorism. He has taught American foreign policy at Columbia and Princeton Universities. In 1994-95 Mr. Rose served as Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council.

From 1985 through 1987, Rose served successively as assistant editor of the foreign policy quarterly, The National Interest, and the domestic quarterly, The Public Interest. He has written essays on foreign and security policy in Foreign Affairs, International Security, The National Interest, and World Politics as well as op-ed columns for leading newspapers.

Mr. Rose received a Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University and a B.A. in Classics from Yale University.

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MARY SAROTTE

Professor Mary Elise Sarotte, a historian, studies international relations in the 20th century. She has also served as a White House Fellow; her first day was September 4, 2001. Currently an associate professor with tenure at the University of Southern California, Sarotte spent the academic year 2006-7 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, working on an international history of 1989 (forthcoming). Her other publications include the books Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik (University of North Carolina Press) and German Military Reform and European Security (Oxford University Press), as well as various scholarly articles. She has also worked as a journalist for Time, Die Zeit, and The Economist (where she is currently the academic book reviewer) and appeared as a political commentator on the BBC, CNN, CNN International, and Sky News. Sarotte earned her BA in History and Science at Harvard and her Ph.D. in History at Yale. In 2004, she received tenure at the University of Cambridge and was elected a member of the Royal Historical Society. She is also a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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James Steinberg

James B. Steinberg has been Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs since January of 2006. Before joining the School, he was the vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (2001-2005), where he supervised a wide-ranging research program on U.S. foreign policy.

From December 1996 to August 2000, he served as deputy national security advisor to President Bill Clinton. During that period he also served as the president's personal representative to the 1998 and 1999 G-8 summits. Prior to becoming deputy national security advisor, he served as chief of staff of the U.S. State Department and director of the State Department's policy planning staff (1994-1996), and as deputy assistant secretary for analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1993-1994).

Steinberg has also been a senior analyst at RAND in Santa Monica, California (1989-1993), and a senior fellow for U.S. Strategic Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London (1985-1987). He served as Senator Edward Kennedy's principal aide for the Senate Armed Services Committee (1983-1985); minority counsel, U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee (1981-1983); special assistant to the U.S. Assistant Attorney General (Civil Division) (1979-1980); law clerk to Judge David L. Bazelon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1978-1979); and special assistant to the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1977).

Steinberg received his B.A. from Harvard in 1973 and J.D. from Yale Law School in 1978. He is a member of the D.C. Bar. He is a member of the board of directors of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and the President's Council on International Activities of Yale University. He is also a member of the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly.

Steinberg has written numerous books and chapters on foreign policy and national security topics, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/2007 and An Ever Closer Union: European Integration and Its Implications for the Future of U.S.-European Relations. His publications on domestic policy include "Urban America: Policy Choices for Los Angeles and the Nation," and "Were You Counted?—Civil Rights and the 1990 Census" in One Nation Indivisible: The Civil Rights Challenges for the 1990s, published by the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights in 1989.

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ROBERT SCHULZINGER

Robert D. Schulzinger is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction of History and International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he has taught since 1977. He was a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation from 1996 to 2005, and he chaired the committee from 2001 to 2003. He has been a member of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Historical Review Panel since 2006. He is a former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and is the editor in chief of SHAFR’s journal, Diplomatic History. Professor Schulzinger is the author or co-author of twelve books on the history of U.S. foreign relations and recent U.S. history. Among them are A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1997), A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 2006), and U.S. Diplomacy since 1900, sixth edition (Oxford University Press, 2008).

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JEFFREY W. TALIAFERRO

Jeffrey W. Taliaferro (Ph.D., Harvard University) is associate professor of political science at Tufts University, where he has taught since 1997. He is also a member of the faculty of the Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP) at the Fletcher School. His research centers on security studies, international relations theory, and U.S. foreign policy. Professor Taliaferro is the is the author of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004), for which he received the American Political Science Association's Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Award for the Best Book in International History and Politics. He is the co-editor of (with Norrin M. Ripsman and Steven E. Lobell) and a contributor to Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). His articles have appeared in International Security, Security Studies, Political Psychology, and in several edited volumes. He is presently writing a book entitled, Primacy of Power: Realism and U.S. Grand Strategy, 1940-present. Professor Taliaferro has held grants and fellowships from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the National Science Foundation, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He serves on the editorial board of International Studies Review.

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DANIEL TWINING

Daniel Twining handles international organizations and regional issues on the Policy Planning Staff. He was previously the Fulbright/Oxford Scholar at Oxford University. He has been a Transatlantic Fellow and a Director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2001-4, he served as Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator John McCain and was his legislative aide for defense and foreign affairs from 1997-2000. He has also served on the staff of the U.S. Trade Representative. Dan’s work has been published in newspapers, magazines, and academic journals in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is a DPhil candidate in International Relations at Oxford University and holds a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia. He has lived in India, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Benin, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso.

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THOMAS WRIGHT

Thomas Wright is senior researcher for the Princeton Project on National Security and a research fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Previously, he held a research fellowship at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Washington Post, and various international newspapers. His research interests include multilateral cooperation, national security policy, nuclear weapons, and transatlantic relations. He has a PhD in government from Georgetown University, a M Phil in international studies from Cambridge University, and a BA from University College Dublin.

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AMY ZEGART

Amy Zegart is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Featured by The National Journal as one of the ten most influential experts in U.S. intelligence reform, Zegart served on the Clinton Administration’s National Security Council staff and as a foreign policy advisor to the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign. Her first book, Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC (Stanford Univ. Press, 1999) won the American Political Science Association’s award for best dissertation in public administration. Most recently, she is the author of Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (Princeton Univ. Press, 2007) which examines why the CIA and FBI failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism after the Cold War. A former Fulbright Scholar, she received an A.B. in East Asian Studies magna cum laude from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.

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