Expertise
Europe; national security; NATO; Russia/former Soviet Union; South Asia; UN/Global Governance; U.S. foreign policy
Background
Past Positions
Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University; Deputy Secretary of State (1994–2001); Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States (1993–94); Editor-at-Large and Foreign Affairs Columnist (1989–92), Washington Bureau Chief (1984–89), Diplomatic Correspondent (1977–84), White House Correspondent (1975–76), State Department Correspondent (1974–75), and Eastern Europe Correspondent (1971–73), Time Magazine
Education
M.Litt., Oxford University, 1971; B.A., Yale University, 1968
"Just as a nation is a gathering of tribes, so the international community is a gathering of nations—an incipient global nation, in the sense that humanity is learning to govern itself as a whole on those issues where it can do so to the benefit of all, and especially on those where it must do so to avert planetary disaster."
—from The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and The Quest for a Global Nation