Nationality United States Role Teacher Name Adam Garfinkle | Religion Jewish | |
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Born June 1, 1951 (age 72) ( 1951-06-01 ) Washington, D.C. Alma mater University of Pennsylvania Occupation editor, speechwriter, professor Spouse(s) Priscilla Elizabeth Taylor (a science teacher), June 21, 1981 Education University of Pennsylvania Residence Potomac, Maryland, United States Books Jewcentricity: Why the Jews Are, Political Writing: A Guide to t, Telltale hearts, Politics and society in modern Is, The Politics of the Nuclear F | ||
Political party '50s and '60s Democrat | ||
Adam garfinkle the middle east before the arab spring fpri s 2013 middle east history institute
Adam M. Garfinkle (born June 1, 1951, in Washington, D.C.) is 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.
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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.
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 The 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). Garfinkle has a B.A., M.A. (both 1972), and Ph.D. (1979) in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.