Evelyn Farkas
Evelyn N. Farkas (born December 6, 1967 ) is an American security expert. From 2012 to 2015 she was responsible for Russia / Ukraine / Eurasia in the US Department of Defense.
Farkas is a strategy consultant owner, Fellow of the Atlantic Council , and national security expert for NBC / MSNBC.
Life
Her father fled Hungary after the suppressed 1956 uprising . Farkas received her BA in 1989 from Franklin & Marshall College ; afterwards she earned MA and Ph.D. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy .
In 1996 and 1997 she worked for the OSCE in Bosnia .
From 1997 to 2001, Farkas taught international relations at Marine Corps University .
She then worked for the US Senate Defense Committee until 2008 . In 2009 she worked at the American Security Project and Center for National Policy think tanks .
After Barrack Obama's election victory, she moved from the legislative branch to the executive branch: from 2010 to 2012 she advised the US Secretary of Defense and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe . From 2012 to 2015 she was deputy. Head of Department in the Ministry of Defense.
Publications
- Fractured States and US Foreign Policy: Iraq, Ethiopia, and Bosnia in the 1990s . Springer, 2003, ISBN 1-4039-8243-0 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/602701/
- ↑ Alumni Search. Franklin & Marshall College, accessed April 2, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.americansecurityproject.org/?s=farkas&submit=
Web links
- ASP Fellow Evelyn Farkas Discusses North Korea (MSNBC, Aug 4, 2009)
- Dr. Evelyn Farkas on Gitmo Torture and Memos (MSNBC, April 17, 2009)
- Scientists Counter WMD Panel on Stemming Biothreats (Global Security Newswire, March 13, 2009)
- War Torn: Why Democrats Can't Think Straight about National Security (Washington Monthly, November 2002)
- Harold Rosenthal Fellowship in International Relations 1993
- https://foreignpolicy.com/author/evelyn-farkas/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/author/evelyn-n-farkas/
- https://www.politico.eu/author/evelyn-farkas/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farkas, Evelyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Farkas, Evelyn N. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American security expert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1967 |