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Protecting U.S. interests and values in an increasingly interdependent world requires a rethinking of America’s international strategy. Many of the assumptions that guided U.S. foreign policy over the past decade are at odds with both emerging world realities and our nation’s internationalist tradition. New America is working to promote a new internationalism that adapts our best foreign policy traditions to the 21st century, combining tough-minded realism about America’s interests in the world with pragmatic idealism about the kind of world order best suited to America’s democratic way of life.

New America's recent articles, events, policy papers and press coverage on this topic are available below, as is information on our staff and fellows with expertise in this area. To learn more about New America's ideas, proposals and activities, please see our American Strategy Program home page.

Policy Papers

New America's latest official publications on this issue are featured below.

Nuclear Bailout

The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to undertake an extensive, multi-billion dollar investment in new nuclear weapons facilities and new nuclear warhead designs. The initiative, known as “Complex Transformation,” is unnecessary on strategic and technical grounds, not to mention exorbitantly expensive. The various plans being considered by the DOE have more to do with bailing out the nuclear weapons industry than they do with determining what size complex makes sense in an era of nuclear arms reductions. At a minimum,… more

William D. Hartung | March 25, 2008

Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Make the U.S. Economy Stronger or Pose National Security Risks?

By way of introduction, I spent most of the last seventeen years working as an investment banker and private equity investor based primarily in London, England. This experience, I believe, gives me a somewhat different perspective on Sovereign Wealth Funds and the role that they play in today’s international capital markets. Currently, I co-direct the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation. The New America Foundation is a non-profit, post-partisan public policy institute in Washington D.C.

Over the past several months, few issues in international finance have generated… more

Douglas Rediker | February 13, 2008

Is The United States Losing Turkey?

On February 5th and 6th, 2007, the Hudson Institute, with support from the Smith Richardson Foundation, convened a small workshop of noted specialists on Turkey, Europe, and international security to assess the state of America’s alliance with Turkey and, more specifically, to ascertain whether the United States risks “losing” Turkey as a long-time and critical ally. The workshop was part of a project directed by Rajan Menon,… more

Rajan Menon | March 26, 2007

Terrorism: A Brief for Americans

Introduction

On November 7, 2006 Americans went to the polls and registered a deep concern on the course of the war in Iraq. For months ahead of the mid-term elections, they understood what leaders in the White House refused to acknowledge: A region spiraling downward in violence and bloodshed. American troops with no exit strategy. Most horrific of all, U.S. soldiers—America’s finest—tortured, killed… more

February 2007

Dealing with Tehran

This report by Flynt Leverett, director of New America's Geopolitics of Energy Initiative within the American Strategy Program, was commissioned by The Century Foundation.

The complete document is available via The Century Foundation website at http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=PB&pubid=595.

Flynt Leverett | December 2006

Beyond Dominance

The central idea underlying American grand strategy since the end of the Cold War has been dominance -- the notion that the United States is so powerful and virtuous that it can pretty much remake the world on its own terms. For most of its two terms in office, the Clinton administration pursued a form of soft dominance, in that it sought to legitimize its policies through America's traditional alliances and through the use of international bodies like the International… more

Sherle R. Schwenninger | February 1, 2004

Opportunity Missed

FROM THE MOMENT the Berlin Wall came down, a succession of U.S. presidents used American economic, military, and cultural primacy as leverage to build a new global system incorporating both the former communist countries and the developing nations of the global South. Over the course of the next decade, America's leaders phased out the Pax Americana alliance system in Europe and East Asia -- a Temporary Cold War measure -- and replaced it with a global great-power concert.

In… more

Michael Lind | February 1, 2004

The Population Implosion

A NEW CHALLENGE FACES THE WORLD. It is not a problem that can be photographed, reduced to a sound bite, or rendered into the conventional formulations of Left and Right. It has everything to do with sex, death, money, and power, yet is rarely the subject of a headline. Rather, its reality dwells beneath the surface of everyday events, in the realm of what historian Arnold Toynbee once called the "deeper, slower movements that, in the end,… more

Phillip Longman | February 1, 2004

Democracy in the Islamic World

IN A REMARKABLE SPEECH at the National Endowment for Democracy in November 2003, President Bush acknowledged 60 years of American error and announced a policy of encouraging democracy, not dictatorship, in the Muslim world. Whether this long overdue message is followed by an actual policy change or simply results from the short-term need to explain the Iraq war in the absence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) remains to be seen. But in any event, Bush neglected to mention… more

Noah Feldman | February 1, 2004

American Strategy Project -- Grand Strategy No.2

Dear Colleagues:

Yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed a ground-breaking idea for the reform of Iraq put forth by my colleague Steve Clemons, Executive Vice President of the New America Foundation and Co-Director of the American Strategy Project.

In the April 9th edition of the New York Times, Steve suggested that the Alaska Permanent Fund, which provides a share of state oil revenues directly to Alaskan citizens, could be a model for a similar program… more

Michael Lind | April 30, 2003

American Strategy Project -- Grand Strategy No.1

The United States is now more isolated from its major allies and more internally divided over foreign policy than at any time since 1945. The strategy of the Bush administration -- and not merely its style -- is to blame.

The grand strategy of the Bush administration rests on three axioms: American global hegemony; preventive war; and the so-called "war on terror." All three axioms… more

Michael Lind | March 13, 2003

Articles & Books

Recent New America-authored articles, op-eds and books on this topic are featured below.

Lessons From Iraq

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If what is shaping up to be the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history has an upside, it is that the current war in Iraq should definitively, permanently settle a handful of critical questions about American conduct in the world. This book provides a list of those questions and even ventures some answers in the form of key lessons from Iraq.

The idea of assembling lessons as tools for avoiding the next war is less of a stretch than it… more

William D. Hartung | May 2008

Population Bombing

In the 20th century, a global network of colluding activists, institutions, and governments sought to engineer solutions to various real and perceived social problems by, as Matthew Connelly puts it in his new book, planning "other people's families." In its most egregious expression, this movement led to the forced sterilization of millions of people around the world, including many thousands in the U.S., on the grounds that they were -- genetically or otherwise -- unfit. California alone had sterilized 7,500… more

Phillip Longman | May 19, 2008 | National Review

Israel At 60

I don't often, or ever really, write about my own relationship to Israel or how I ended up there, but I'll make an exception for its 60th anniversary.

My relationship with Israel started at the time of the ‘good' Iraq war. You remember, the Iraq war whose ambitions were limited to ensuring continued access to Kuwaiti oil -- not the contemporary trifecta effort to own the oil, change the regime, and transform the region.

In January of 1991 I was working in… more

Bin Laden Or Bust

Dude! What a rad plan! Kicking back over drinks at Bungalow 8, the hard-to-get-into Manhattan nightclub, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock hatched the idea of a humorous documentary and book about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Your average auteur would wake up the next morning back in his Brooklyn crib, reach for the Advil and realize that searching for the largest mass murderer in U.S. history is about as funny as a pounding hangover.

But Spurlock is not an auteur easily deterred.… more

The Perils Of Unconditional Engagement

The issue of whether or not to engage Hamas boils down to the following question: would such engagement help moderate the organization, or would it simply improve Hamas’ chances of dominating the Palestinian political scene and encourage extremism throughout the Middle East? For now, any engagement that goes beyond achieving de-escalation in Gaza would serve to bolster Hamas at the expense of those working toward a two-state solution.

Those who argue that engagement would bring about a significant change in Hamas’… more

Here Comes the Second World

This article is adapted from Parag Khanna's book The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order.

The term "second world" has fallen out of use. It used to mean countries of the socialist world; today I use the phrase to refer to those countries in eastern Europe and central Asia, Latin America, the middle east and southeast Asia which are both rich and poor, developed and underdeveloped, postmodern and pre-modern, cosmopolitan and tribal -- all at… more

Parag Khanna | May 2008 | PROSPECT

Wilson and the Founders: The Roots of Liberal Foreign Policy

This article is adapted from Widmer’s January 2008 presentation at “The Liberal Foreign Policy Tradition,” a conference cosponsored by CIS, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the History and Democracy Project.

We can't do much better than reclaiming the Declaration of Independence as a fundamental foreign policy document in American history. We have a tendency to read it in a simplistic way, and to think of it only as a sort of airy declaration of what were then human rights,… more

The U.S. Senate: Stalling Hemispheric Arms Control

In 1997, President Bill Clinton, standing beside Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo in the Organization of American States’ flag-bedecked Hall of the Americas, declared: “Gun trafficking is an issue of national security for our governments, and a matter of neighborhood security for all of us in the Americas.” The presidents had joined together to sign an OAS treaty known as the Firearms Convention, or by its Spanish initials as CIFTA, designed to end the illicit manufacture and trafficking of guns, ammunition,… more

It's No Longer 1968 For Dems

In May 2004, as the presidential campaign was beginning to gather steam, an unnamed senior Bush administration official was asked to comment on the dilemma John F. Kerry faced in criticizing the handling of the war in Iraq. His response: “It’s never stopped being 1968” for Democrats.

A more telling description of Democratic vulnerability on national security issues is difficult to imagine. The year 1968 is shorthand for the 40-year political caricature of Democrats as “soft” and “weak” on military affairs.… more

Michael A. Cohen | April 30, 2008 | The Politico

Baitullah Mehsud

For Pakistanis, the Dec. 27 assassination of Benazir Bhutto was the J.F.K. murder and 9/11 rolled into one, plunging the nation into days of mourning and setting off riots across the country. It was a stunning victory for Pakistan's militants, who have increasingly turned their firepower against the state, conducting more than 50 suicide attacks in 2007 alone.

The government quickly fingered Baitullah Mehsud as the mastermind of the Bhutto assassination; he had previously threatened to kill her. The details of… more

Peter Bergen | April 28, 2008 | TIME Magazine

In Rocky's State, a Legislator Can Still Outpunch an Orator

The razor-thin margin separating the contenders for the Democratic nomination grew even thinner at the weekend. Why is this battle so close? A simple reason is that, despite the occasional invective, Americans genuinely admire both the charismatic Barack Obama and the fiercely resilient Hillary Clinton. When John McCain is thrown into the mix, we have the greatest reality show ever, an epic clash of survivalists. It is a shame Sergio Leone is not here to direct the final scene. But… more

Ted Widmer | April 22, 2008 | The Guardian (London)

What High Oil Prices Can Do For a Country

From the outside, Effat College doesn't seem like a bellwether of change. The all-girls school in Jeddah, a port city on the coast of the Red Sea, is rimmed by unscalable high walls and an empty parking lot, resembling the scene of a freshly departed circus in Middle America. In many ways, the college's exterior illustrates conventional misperceptions -- closed, drab, and unwelcoming -- of modern Saudi Arabia. Perhaps the only thing less inviting is the bold, red lettering at… more

Nicholas Schmidle | April 18, 2008 | Slate

Clinton Has Strategic Blind Spot On China

A similar version of this article also appears on The New Republic, which features a debate between Steven Clemons and Richard Just, TNR's deputy editor, on the appropriate response to the Beijing Olympics.

China's Olympics are an enticing target for "cause crusaders" who want to taunt the regime with public relations stunts while the global spotlight and attention of billions are watching every countermove China's leaders make. The "norms" of any state are not really evident… more

Blogging In Support Of the Saudi Government

In the pre-Internet age, Raed al-Saeed would be punching above his weight. Last month, the 33-year-old Saudi posted a six-minute film on his blog that has thrust him into a millennial debate previously waged by only mullahs and popes: Can religion be evil? "My goal was not to make me or my blog famous," said al-Saeed. His intentions were more subtle: "Don't be brainwashed into judging a religion by one video made by someone who hates that religion."… more

Nicholas Schmidle | April 17, 2008 | Slate

We Have To Clean Up Bush's Messes Before We Can Focus On China

This article is the third part of a TNR debate between Steven Clemons and Richard Just, deputy editor from The New Republic, on the appropriate response to the Beijing Olympics.

Please click here for the first part of the debate. For the second part, please click here.

From: Steven Clemons To: Richard Just

Richard reads me pretty well. I don't believe that the U.S. government should throw its weight behind an Olympics-tethered human rights rebuke of China --… more

Steven Clemons | April 17, 2008 | The New Republic

Why Hillary's Olympics Stance Is Immature

This article is the first part of a TNR debate between Steven Clemons and Richard Just, deputy editor from The New Republic, on the appropriate response to the Beijing Olympics.

From: Steven Clemons To: Richard Just

Hillary Clinton recently called on George W. Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympic opening ceremonies, and I think she's showing a strategic blind spot that is worrisome.

To add a bit of context, last October, The New Republic's editors ran a thought-provoking editorial, "Gold… more

Steven Clemons | April 15, 2008 | The New Republic

Military Conflict

General Richard A. Cody graduated from West Point in 1972, flew helicopters, ascended to command the storied 101st Airborne Division, and then, toward the end of his career, settled into management; now, at fifty-seven, he wears four stars as the Army Vice-Chief of Staff. This summer, he will retire from military service.

In 2004, in a little-noted speech, Cody described the Army’s efforts to adapt to its new commitments. (It was attempting to fight terrorism, quell the Taliban, invade and pacify… more

Steve Coll | April 14, 2008 | The New Yorker

A Middle East Report Card

Condoleezza Rice has just completed her 14th Middle East visit in 15 months and her third since the Annapolis Conference.

The Annapolis effort is scheduled to last one year, wrapping up at the end of the Bush term, but with four months gone, the scorecard makes for predictably depressing reading. Economic conditions and freedom of movement in the West Bank have, if anything, deteriorated -- settlements are expanding, not a single outpost has been dismantled, and Israelis and Palestinians are less… more

Target: Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden lives among friends, follows news on satellite television or the Internet and reads books about American foreign policy; this much can be safely inferred from his periodic audio and video statements. His latest topical punditry surfaced just a few weeks ago on jihadi websites when he addressed violence in Gaza and the pope's travels.

Because of his passable grasp of current events, Bin Laden may well understand what many Americans do not: that he is more likely to… more

Steve Coll | April 13, 2008 | Los Angeles Times

'A More Private Occupation'

Imagine Philippe Starck and Daniel Libeskind are commissioned to design an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank -- imposing exterior, breezy interior, daring splashes of light and color. Sometimes it seems this is the image being promoted by the newly privatized and civilianized checkpoints and crossings popping up in the territories. When it comes to dress codes, the drab olive of military fatigues is decidedly passe, having been replaced by the crisp uniforms of private security contractors.

A half-dozen such terminals… more

Daniel Levy | April 11, 2008 | Haaretz

Events

Related New America events, both recent and upcoming (if any), are featured below.

Experts

Steven Clemons

Steven Clemons

Steven Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote a new American internationalism that combines a tough-minded realism about America's interests in the world with a pragmatic idealism about the kind of world order best suited to America's democratic way of… more

Clemons is New America's primary contact for this issue. All fellows and staff with expertise in this area are listed below in alphabetical order.

Ghaith al-Omari

Before joining the New America Foundation, Ghaith al-Omari served in various senior positions within the Palestinian Authority, including Foreign Policy Advisor to the Palestinian President, Director of the International Relations Department in the Office of the Palestinian President, and Senior Advisor to former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. In these capacities,… more
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Peter Bergen

Peter Bergen Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist, and the author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden (Free Press, 2001), which has been translated into 18 languages. He is also the author of The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al… more

Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan Frida Berrigan is Senior Program Associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. Previously, she served for eight years as Deputy Director and Senior Research Associate at the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New York City. She… more
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Steven Clemons

Steven Clemons

Steven Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote a new American internationalism that combines a tough-minded realism about America's interests in the world with a pragmatic idealism about the kind of world order best suited to America's democratic way of… more

Michael A. Cohen

Michael A. Cohen Michael A. Cohen brings a wealth of experience in foreign policy to the New America Foundation. He is the author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the Twentieth Century and How They Shaped Modern America (Bloomsbury, June 2008) and a member of the board… more
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Steve Coll

Steve Coll Steve Coll is President & CEO of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post, serving as the paper’s managing editor from 1998 to 2004. He is author six books,… more
Areas of Expertise: Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Pakistan

Patrick C. Doherty

Patrick C. Doherty

Patrick C. Doherty is Deputy Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. The American Strategy Program aims to promote a new American internationalism that combines a tough-minded realism about America's interests in the world with a pragmatic idealism about the kind of world order best suited… more

Maria Figueroa Küpçü

Maria Figueroa Küpçü Maria Figueroa Küpçü specializes in the development of international advocacy campaigns, with particular expertise in stakeholder engagement in the global policymaking process. As a senior director at the market research and consulting firm Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, she guided presidential and parliamentary campaigns in South Korea, Ukraine, Serbia, Bermuda,… more
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Tim Golden

Tim Golden is an investigative journalist who writes about legal policy in the fight against terrorism and other issues related to the treatment of terror suspects. He is on leave from The New York Times, where he is a senior writer and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine.… more
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy, Terrorism

Gary Hart

Gary Hart

Gary Hart represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1987, where he served on the Armed Services Committee, specializing in nuclear arms control and military reform. He is the author of sixteen books. The Baltimore Sun called his 2004 book on American foreign policy, The Fourth Power, "extraordinarily… more

Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy, National Security

William D. Hartung

William D. Hartung

William D. Hartung is Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. The project serves as a resource for journalists, policymakers, and citizen’s organizations on the issues of weapons proliferation, the economics of military spending, and alternative approaches to national security strategy.

Before coming to New… more

Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy, National Security

Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna is an expert on geopolitics, global governance, and Asian and European affairs, and was most recently the Global Governance Fellow at The Brookings Institution. He has worked at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, where he specialized in scenario and risk planning, and at the Council on… more

Sameer Lalwani

Sameer Lalwani As Policy Analyst for the American Strategy Program, Sameer Lalwani contributes to the program's aim of sparking broader American internationalism through research, writing, and innovative programmatic efforts to frame public discourse on U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Lalwani primarily concentrates on policy toward the Middle East and South Asia, but he… more
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Flynt Leverett

Flynt Leverett Flynt Leverett is a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and global energy issues. From 1992 to 2003, he had a distinguished career in the U.S. government, serving as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, Middle East Expert… more

Daniel Levy

Daniel Levy

Daniel Levy is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Policy Initiative of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. He was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative and directed policy planning and international efforts at the Geneva Campaign Headquarters in Tel Aviv. Previously,… more

Jeffrey G. Lewis

Jeffrey G. Lewis

Jeffrey G. Lewis is Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation. The Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative seeks to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in international security and renew the fundamental bargain contained in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The author of Minimum Means… more

Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy, WMD

Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven, a former senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, previously covered Central Europe for The Financial Times; Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia for The Times (London), and India as a freelance journalist. He was also an editor at the International Institute for Strategic… more

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

Michael Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author, with Ted Halstead, of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (Doubleday, 2001). He is also the author of Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics (New… more

Eric Liu

Eric Liu Eric Liu is an author and educator who has served in leadership roles in national politics and media. His most recent book, The True Patriot, co-authored with Nick Hanauer, is a pamphlet in the style of Thomas Paine that argues for a new progressive patriotism. He is also the author… more

Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon is the Monroe J. Rathbone Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University. He was an Academic Fellow and Senior Advisor at the Carnegie Corporation of New York for two years, where he played a key role in developing the Corporation’s Russia Initiative. Dr. Menon was also a Senior… more

Afshin Molavi

Afshin Molavi

Afshin Molavi is the author of Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran (Norton, 2002), which was nominated for the Thomas Cook literary travel book of the year and described by Foreign Affairs as “a brilliant tableau of today’s Iran.” A former Dubai-based correspondent for the Reuters news agency and a regular… more

James Pinkerton

James Pinkerton

James P. Pinkerton worked in the White House under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Since leaving government in 1993, he has been a columnist for Newsday, a contributor to the Fox News Channel, and a regular on Fox’s Newswatch show. He has also been a member of… more

Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah Purdy is Assistant Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where he teaches ethics, and property, constitutional, and environmental law. He was a Fellow at the New America Foundation in 2001 and 2002, and rejoined the Foundation in 2004 after completing a clerkship with Judge Pierre N. Leval of… more

Nicholas Schmidle

Nicholas Schmidle

Nicholas Schmidle writes about the intersection of culture, religion and politics abroad. He has reported from South and Central Asia, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Slate, The New Republic, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post and many other publications. He appears on NPR,… more

Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy, Pakistan

Sherle R. Schwenninger

Sherle R. Schwenninger Sherle Schwenninger directs the New America Foundation's Economic Growth and Global Middle Class Programs. He is also the former editor of the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program. Mr. Schwenninger was Founding Editor of World Policy Journal from 1983 to 1992, and served as Director of the World Policy Institute… more

Nicholas Thompson

Nicholas Thompson

Nicholas Thompson was most recently a senior editor at Legal Affairs Magazine and, before that, an editor at Washington Monthly. He is now a contributing editor at both publications and an editor at Wired. Mr. Thompson has written about politics, technology, and the law for The New York Times, The… more

Katherine Tiedemann

Katherine Tiedemann As Program Associate with the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation, Katherine Tiedemann contributes to the initiative’s aim of reducing the role of nuclear weapons in international security through research, writing, and innovative programmatic efforts. Before joining the American Strategy Program, Ms. Tiedemann was a Research… more
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Ben Van Heuvelen

Ben Van Heuvelen

Ben Van Heuvelen is a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, working for President Steve Coll on a new book project.

Mr. Van Heuvelen comes to New America from Salon.com and The Atlantic Monthly. His writing has appeared on Salon.com and Nerve.com. Before becoming a journalist, he taught high school… more

Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Ted Widmer

Ted Widmer

Ted Widmer is Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, one of America's premier centers for research into early American history. From 2001 to 2006, he was the inaugural director of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, where… more

Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Robert Wright

Robert Wright

Robert Wright is the author of The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Peter Smith, 1997) and Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Pantheon, 2000). He is a contributing editor for The New Republic and a contributor to Time and Slate. He has also written for The Atlantic… more

Press

Press Release/Media AppearanceDate
Reports from Lebanon and Video Coverage of the New America Foundation's "Briefing on Beirut"May 14, 2008
Parag Khanna in Financial Express | India Doesn’t Count YetApril 27, 2008
Peter Bergen talks with CNN Newsroom | Hamid Karzai Survives Assassination AttemptApril 27, 2008
Steve Coll and Peter Bergen on CNN's Late Edition | Interview on Osama bin LadenApril 27, 2008
Jeffrey Lewis on NPR | Syria Revelation Could Affect N. Korea Nuclear TalksApril 24, 2008
Steve Coll on Book TV | After Words Interview on "The bin Ladens"April 19, 2008
Flynt Leverett in National Interest Online | Inside Track: Pole DancingApril 17, 2008
Steve Coll in The Week | Book ReviewApril 16, 2008
Steve Coll on Public Radio International | Bob Edwards Weekend InterviewApril 6, 2008
Steve Coll on NewsHour | New Book Examines the Bin Laden FamilyMarch 28, 2008
Steve Coll on Frontline | Bush's War: Part 2March 24, 2008
Daniel Levy in New York Times | U.S. May Relent on Hamas Role in TalksMarch 19, 2008
Parag Khanna in Salon | Can the U.S. redeem itself overseas?March 17, 2008
Parag Khanna on WTOP Radio | Interview on The Second WorldMarch 16, 2008
William Hartung in Toronto Star | '$3 Trillion Is Just a Part of the Cost'March 16, 2008
Afshin Molavi in U.S. News | Global Public Opinion Turns Against the U.S. on Iran's Nuclear ProgramMarch 11, 2008
Daniel Levy and Ghaith al-Omari in Washington Post | In Search for Peace, a Shrinking White House RoleMarch 2, 2008
Steve Clemons and Lawrence Wilkerson in Financial Times | 'A Family Business'February 26, 2008
Eliza Griswold on Public Radio International | 'God's Country: Nigeria's Middle Belt' February 26, 2008
Steve Clemons in Dallas Morning News | 'Joshua Kurlantzick: It's Time to End the Cuban Embargo'February 24, 2008