Adam M. Garfinkle (born June 1, 1951) is an American
historian
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and
political scientist
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and the founding
editor
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of ''
The American Interest
''The American Interest'' (''AI'') was a bimonthly magazine focusing primarily on foreign policy, international affairs, global economics, and military matters.
History
The magazine was founded in 2005 by a number of members of the editorial ...
'', a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of ''
The National Interest
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.'' He has been a university teacher and a staff member at high levels of the
U.S. government. He was a
speechwriter
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to more than one
U.S. Secretary of State
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.
Garfinkle was a speechwriter for both of President
George W. Bush
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's Secretaries of State,
Colin Powell
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and
Condoleezza Rice
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. He was editor of ''
The National Interest
''The National Interest'' (''TNI'') is an American bimonthly international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, ...
'' and left to edit ''
The American Interest
''The American Interest'' (''AI'') was a bimonthly magazine focusing primarily on foreign policy, international affairs, global economics, and military matters.
History
The magazine was founded in 2005 by a number of members of the editorial ...
'' in 2005.
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar and writer.
Fukuyama is known for his book ''The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992), which argue ...
,
Eliot Cohen
Eliot Asher Cohen (born April 3, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American political scientist. He was a counselor in the United States Department of State under Condoleezza Rice from 2007 to 2009. In 2019, Cohen was named the 9th Dean of t ...
,
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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,
Josef Joffe
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, and
Ruth Wedgwood
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Fam ...
were among the magazine's founding leadership.
Career
Early in his career, Garfinkle worked at the
Foreign Policy Research Institute
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(1972–1978 and from 1981). He taught
American foreign policy
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and Middle East politics at the
University of Pennsylvania
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(1980–1989) and
Johns Hopkins University
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's
School of Advanced International Studies
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. He has also taught at
Drexel University (1980),
Widener College
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Founded as The Bullock School for Boys in 1821, the school ...
(Chester, Pennsylvania) (1981),
Haverford College
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(1991), and
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
(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
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In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (1979–1980), and an assistant to
Senator
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Henry M. Jackson
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(1979). As of 2009, he was a member of the project "Middle East at Harvard" (MESH).
Garfinkle has a
B.A.
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,
M.A.
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(both 1972), and
Ph.D.
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(1979) in
International Relations
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from the
University of Pennsylvania
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.
Books
* ''"Finlandization": A Map to a Metaphor'',
Foreign Policy Research Institute
The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is an American think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that conducts research on geopolitics, international relations, and international security in the various regions of the world as well as ...
(Philadelphia), 1978.
* (With others) ''The Three Per Cent Solution and the Future of NATO'', Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1981.
* ''Western Europe's Middle East Diplomacy and the United States'', Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1983.
* (Editor) ''Global Perspectives on Arms Control'', Praeger (New York City), 1984.
* ''The Politics of the Nuclear Freeze'', Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1984.
* (Coeditor and contributor) ''Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma'', Macmillan/St. Martin's (New York City), 1991.
* ''Israel and Jordan in the Shadow of War: Functional Ties and Futile Diplomacy in a Small Place'', Macmillan/St. Martin's, 1992.
* (Principal author) ''The Devil and Uncle Sam: A User's Guide to the Friendly Tyrants Dilemma'', Transaction Press (New Brunswick, New Jersey), 1992.
* ''War, Water, and Negotiation in the Middle East: The Case of the Palestine-Syria Border, 1916–23'',
Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
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(Tel Aviv), 1994.
* ''Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement'' (St. Martin's) was named a "notable book of the year" (1995) in the ''New York Times Book Review''.
* ''Israel: Myths and Realities'', Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Ft. Worth, Texas), 1996.
* ''Politics and Society in Modern Israel: Myths and Reality'', M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 1997; 2nd edition 2000.
* ''A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism'', editor,
Hoover Institution Press
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(Stanford, California), 2004.
* ''Israel'', Mason Crest Publishers (Philadelphia), 2004.
* ''Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials'', M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2012.
References
External links
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1951 births
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Drexel University faculty
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Tel Aviv University faculty
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