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Eric Edelman, Ph.D.
Roger Hertog Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies
Based in Washington, D.C.
Background and Education
Also serves as a distinguished fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a senior associate of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University; recently retired from the U.S. Foreign Service, having held senior-level positions at the U.S. Departments of State and Defense and at the White House, including U.S. ambassador to Finland and Turkey, under secretary of Defense for Policy, principal deputy assistant to the vice president for National Security Affairs, special assistant to the secretary of State, chief of staff to the deputy secretary of State and special assistant to the under secretary of State for Political Affairs; other assignments included the State Department Operations Center as well as Prague, Moscow and Tel Aviv, where he was a member of the U.S. Middle East delegation to
the West Bank/Gaza autonomy talks; is a board member for the United States Institute of Peace and the Foreign Policy Initiative; received the U.S. Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Awards and the Presidential Distinguished Service Award and was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French government; Ph.D., U.S. diplomatic history, Yale University
Understanding America’s Contested Primacy (2010); “Fool Me Twice: How the United States Lost Lebanon—Again” in World Affairs Journal (2011); “Why Obama Should Take Out Iran’s Nuclear Program” in Foreign Affairs (2011); “A Special Relationship in Jeopardy” in The American Interest (2010); “Security Can’t Stop With DoD” in Defense News (2010); “The Broken Consensus: America’s Contested Primacy” in World Affairs Journal (2010); “The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran” in Foreign Affairs (2010)
- Regions
- Russia
- Eastern Europe
- Turkey
- Western Europe
- Middle East
- Topics
- American Defense Policy
- American Foreign Policy
- Nuclear Policy and Proliferation
- Diplomacy
- Strategic and Security Issues