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David J. Rothkopf (born December 24, 1955) is an American foreign policy, national security and political affairs analyst and commentator. He is the founder and CEO of TRG Media and The Rothkopf Group, a columnist for ''
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'' Board of Contributors. He is the author of ten books including ''Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power'', ''National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear'', and most recently, ''Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump''. He is also the podcast host of Deep State Radio.


Early life and education

Rothkopf was born in Urbana, Illinois, to a
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family. His father escaped the
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while three dozen of his relatives did not. Rothkopf, who grew up in New Jersey, is a 1977 graduate of Columbia College and attended
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. He has two daughters, Joanna and Laura Rothkopf. He is married to Carla Dirlikov Canales, an opera singer, a US State Department cultural envoy, and a professor of practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.


Career

Rothkopf served as a senior executive and editor at Institutional Investor, Inc. and served in a similar capacity at '' Financial World'' magazine. Later, Rothkopf co-founded and served as chairman and chief executive of International Media Partners, Inc., which published ''CEO'' magazine and ''Emerging Markets'' newspaper and organized the CEO Institutes. In 1993, he joined the
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as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Policy and Development. Rothkopf later served as Acting U.S.
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, directing the 2,400 employees of the
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including the U.S. Commercial Service, the International Economic Policy Bureau, the Bureau of Import Administration, and the Bureau of Trade Development. He left government service and became managing director of
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, the international advisory firm founded and chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. In 1999, he co-founded and served as chairman and CEO of Intellibridge Corporation, a provider of international analysis and
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for the U.S. national security community and selected investors, financial organizations and other corporations. He was a visiting scholar at the
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for almost two decades, where he chaired the Carnegie Economic Strategy Roundtable. He was also chairman of the National Strategic Investment Forum Dialogue, a forum convening leading institutional investors for discussions about critical issues of investment strategy. In addition, Rothkopf served as a member of the advisory boards of the
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, the Johns Hopkins/Bloomberg School of Public Health, the
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, and the Center for the Study of the Presidency. Later, he co-founded and served as president and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm specializing in transformational global trends, notably those associated with energy, security, and emerging Markets. In 2012, he was named CEO of the FP Group and editor at large of its
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, ForeignPolicy.com, and FP Events. He subsequently became Editor-in-Chief of the company and served until May 2017. Following his work at Foreign Policy, Rothkopf founded the Rothkopf Group and TRG Media which produce a number of podcasts include Deep State Radio, which is hosted by Rothkopf, Words Matter, Next in Foreign Policy, the DSR Daily Brief and the Secret Life of Cookies. The company also provides podcast and event production services focused on foreign policy, politics, culture, technology, the environment, and women's rights including for companies and for foreign governments such as the United Arab Emirates. Rothkopf is a member of the
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, and has taught international affairs at
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's Graduate
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, the Georgetown School of Foreign Service,
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's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and he has lectured at leading universities including
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, Columbia,
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.


Bibliography

* ''Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power'' (2006) (), which was described by David E. Sanger in ''
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'' as "the definitive history of the
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." * '' Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making'', published in 2008, was described by Rana Foroohar in ''
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'' magazine as "perhaps the definitive chronicle of Davos man." * ''Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government-and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead'' (), published in 2012, was well received in the popular press. * ''National Insecurity: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in an Age of Fear'',"National Insecurity" book review
on ''
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2014. * ''The Great Questions of Tomorrow'', 2017. * ''Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump'', 2020. He is also the author, co-author, co-editor of and contributor to additional books including ''The Global Century: Globalization and National Security'' (
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), ''Cuba: The Contours of Change'' (
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), ''The Price of Peace: Emergency Economic Intervention and U.S. Foreign Policy'' (
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), ''The Common Market: Uniting the European Community'' ( Franklin Watts) and ''The Big Emerging Markets'' ( Bernan Press).


References


External links


Rothkopf's current blog
at ForeignPolicy.com
Rothkopf bio
at ForeignPolicy.com
Stanford Technology Ventures Program Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Series: Concentrated Power in a Global Economy
,
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Lecture at
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, April 16, 2008.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace


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