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Alan Platt, Ph.D.
Foreign Policy Institute Fellow, Professorial Lecturer in the American Foreign Policy Program
Based in Washington, D.C.
Background and Education
As a principal in the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, works on national security and international issues; focuses on providing strategic advice to companies on high-technology matters in the executive and legislative branches of government; has significant experience representing major corporations in congressional investigations; previously served as chief of the Arms Transfer Division of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, principal foreign policy adviser to then-U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie and a senior staff member of the Rand Corporation; was a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution; Ph.D., political science, Columbia University
Author of three books and more than 30 articles on national security and international economic issues
- Topics
- American Defense Policy
- American Foreign Policy
- Arms Control and Disarmament
- Domestic Influences On Foreign Policy
- Economics
- Elections and Foreign Policy
- International Finance
- International Relations
- International Trade Theory and Policy
- Media and Foreign Policy
- Strategic and Security Issues
- U.S. Congress and Foreign Policy
- U.S. Homeland Security
- U.S. Presidency and Foreign Policy