Adam Garfinkle Explained

Birth Name:Adam Morris Garfinkle
Birth Date:1 June 1951
Birth Place:Washington, D.C.
Alma Mater:University of Pennsylvania
Occupation:editor, speechwriter, professor
Children:3
Awards:Fellow of Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81
grant from Orbis and German Marshall Fund, 1981
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Adam M. Garfinkle (born June 1, 1951) is an American historian and political scientist and the founding editor of The American Interest, a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of The National Interest. He has been a university teacher and a staff member at high levels of the U.S. government. He was a speechwriter to more than one U.S. Secretary of State.[2] Garfinkle was a speechwriter for both of President George W. Bush's Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. He was editor of The National Interest and left to edit The American Interest in 2005. Francis Fukuyama, Eliot Cohen, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Josef Joffe, and Ruth Wedgwood were among the magazine's founding leadership.[3]

Career

Early in his career, Garfinkle worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (1972–1978 and from 1981). He taught American foreign policy and Middle East politics at the University of Pennsylvania (1980–1989) and Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He has also taught at Drexel University (1980), Widener College (Chester, Pennsylvania) (1981), Haverford College (1991), and Tel Aviv University (1992–1993). He served on the staff of the National Security Study Group of the US Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), as an aide to General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (1979–1980), and an assistant to Senator Henry M. Jackson (1979). As of 2009, he was a member of the project "Middle East at Harvard" (MESH).[4] Garfinkle has a B.A., M.A. (both 1972), and Ph.D. (1979) in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Books

Notes and References

  1. [Contemporary Authors Online]
  2. Web site: No More Vietnams . The New York Times. 2009-04-15 . October 15, 1995 . Joseph C. Zengerle. (letter to the editor)
  3. News: The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies . . Washington, D.C. . 3 . September 2005 . 2009-04-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100529062218/http://www.sais-jhu.edu/pressroom/publications/sais-reports/2005_sep_oct/sr_sepoct05.pdf . 2010-05-29 . Several SAIS professors have teamed up to launch The American Interest (AI), a new independent quarterly magazine devoted to exploring America's place in today's world, which published its premier issue in early September...Francis Fukuyama,... Eliot Cohen,... Zbigniew Brzezinski,... Josef Joffe,...Ruth Wedgwood,...The magazine's editor is Adam Garfinkle, who was a speechwriter for Rice and Colin L. Powell and served as the editor of The National Interest and a SAIS adjunct professor..
  4. Web site: Adam Garfinkle Middle East Strategy at Harvard . 2009-04-15 . Nov 1, 2007 . . . Harvard University.

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