Bruce Stokes

Bruce Stokes is the international economics columnist for National Journal, a Washington-based public policy magazine. He is a member and former fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directed the Trade Program. He was also a member of President Clinton's Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy, and a Japan Society fellow from 1987 to 1989. He writes frequently for Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, and is the author or co-author of numerous books, most recently of America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked. Mr. Stokes is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies.

As a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Mr. Stokes led an inquiry into the potential for maximizing American economic growth in an increasingly competitive world.

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