Walter Russell Mead

Walter Mead is Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a political economist who studies the global economy and its impact on American policy and society. Mr. Mead is a Senior Contributing Editor at Worth, and a Contributing Editor at the Los Angeles Times. His writings have appeared… more

Walter Russell Mead's book, Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk examines America's historical approach to the world as well as the foreign policy of the Bush administration and its effects both at home and abroad. Mead takes a closer look at how the 2001 terror attacks have changed the political and strategic problems of American foreign policy.

Assessing both Bush and his critics, Mead offers a new approach to the war that can… more

From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America's dealings -- from its earliest days -- with the rest of the world. It is Walter Russell Mead's thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers that we have faced -- and faced down. Beginning as an isolated string of settlements at the edge of the known world, this country-in two centuries-drove… more

Eighteen months in the making, the Project on Development, Trade and International Finance's Final Report maps out global financial strategies which would support the growth of the middle class in emerging economies by promoting long-term, private sector capital flows from industrialized countries to developing economies.

Program directors Walter Russell Mead and Sherle Schwenninger will outline their proposals and make the case that such reform serves the long-term interests of developed and developing countries alike, and Robert Dugger, Jeff Faux and… more