Gabriel Schoenfeld

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Gabriel Schoenfeld (* 1955 ) is an American scientist and author who, among other things, was one of the editors of the monthly Commentary founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945 and is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute .

Life

After attending Miller Great Neck North High School in Great Neck , NY , he began studying at Sarah Lawrence College in 1973, graduating in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then became a member of the staff of Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1978 . After working as a visiting scholar at Moscow's Lomonosov University between 1985 and 1986 , he became a Foreign Service Officer at the US Information Agency in Irkutsk , Tbilisi and Tashkent .

After returning to the United States, he received a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1989 with a dissertation on Uses of the Past: Bolshevism and the French Revolutionary Tradition and has been a Senior Fellow ever since at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

He is currently a senior fellow at the 1961 by Herman Kahn and others founded the Hudson Institute and so-called Resident Scholar at the think tank Witherspoon Institute in Princeton . In addition, Schoenfeld was one of the editors of the monthly Commentary founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945 from 1994 to 2008 and also wrote articles for newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal .

He is also currently an adviser to Mitt Romney , the Republican Party candidate for the 2012 US presidential election .

Publications

  • Uses of the Past: Bolshevism and the French Revolutionary Tradition , Dissertation (1989)
  • The Return of Anti-Semitism (2003)
  • Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law (2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The TSA Is Keeping the Skies Safe. Body scans and intrusive searches are unpleasant but necessary . In: The Wall Street Journal, November 26, 2010
  2. ↑ Who Needs to Know? ( Book review ). In: The New York Times Book Review, May 30, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Schoenfeld, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955