Elizabeth Pond

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Elizabeth Ann Pond (born February 5, 1937 in Westfield , New Jersey ) is an American political scientist , journalist and publicist . As a war correspondent during the Vietnam War , she was captured by the Viet Cong in 1970 . From 2000 to 2005 she was the founding editor of the foreign policy journal Internationale Politik - Global Edition .

Life

Pond studied at Principia College ( Bachelor 1958) in Elsah, Illinois and International Relations , specializing in the Soviet Union , at Harvard University ( Master 1963) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From 1958 to 1960 she volunteered at The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1964 to 1966 she worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers and magazines in Eastern Europe . Back in the USA, she was the responsible European editor for The Christian Science Monitor in Boston from 1966 to 1968 .

From 1968 to 1976 she worked as a foreign correspondent in Saigon (Vietnam), Tokyo (Japan) and Moscow (Soviet Union). 1969/70 she was a Fellow of the Alicia Patterson Foundation ; During the Vietnam War , from May to June 1970, she was captured by the Viet Cong between Saigon and Phnom Penh (Cambodia) together with Michael Morrow from the Dispatch News Service and Richard Dudman from the Christian Science Monitor . She later reported in detail about her experiences as a prisoner of war . From 1977 to 1988 she worked as a European correspondent for the trade journal The Washington Quarterly in Bonn .

In 1988/89 she was funded by the Twentieth Century Fund , Research Fellow in the International Security Program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 1990/91 she held the Warburg Chair for International Relations at Simmons College in Boston.

As a freelance journalist, she wrote for national newspapers / magazines and specialist journals and the like. a. Foreign Affairs , Survival , World Policy Journal , International Security , Internationale Politik , The Economist , The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , Blätter für German and international politics and Die Zeit . In 1999/2006 she held the Principia Speakers Series at Principia College in Elsah. From 2000 to 2005 she was the founding editor of the English edition of Internationale Politik in Berlin. She is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in Washington, DC

She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies , the Council on Foreign Relations , the German Society for Foreign Policy and Women in International Security .

Pond has lived in Berlin for several years and is the author of several books.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • From the Yaroslavsky Station. Russia Perceived . 3rd edition, Universe Books, New York 1988, ISBN 0-87663-536-2 .
  • After the wall. American policy toward Germany (= A Twentieth Century Fund paper ). Priority Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-87078-323-8 .
  • Beyond the wall. Germany's road to unification (= A Twentieth Century Fund book ). Twentieth Century Fund, New York 1993, ISBN 0-8157-7154-1 .
  • with David Schoenbaum : The German question and other German questions (= St Antony's series ). St. Martin's Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-312-16048-8 . (German translation by Tamara Schoenbaum-Holtermann: Approaching Germany. The strains of normality . DVA, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-421-05065-1 )
  • The Rebirth of Europe . Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC 1999, ISBN 0-8157-7157-6 . (German translation by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt: The hour of Europe. A continent on the way to world power . Propylaea, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-549-05827-6 )
  • Endgame in the balkans. Regime change, european style . Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC 2007, ISBN 978-0-8157-7160-9 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matt Schudel: Richard Dudman, reporter held captive in Cambodia during Vietnam War, dies at 99. The Washington Post, August 5, 2017, accessed January 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pond, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pond, Elizabeth Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Westfield , New Jersey