Leslie H. Yellow

Leslie Howard Gelb (born March 4, 1937 in New Rochelle , New York - † August 31, 2019 in Manhattan , New York ) was an American government official and university professor who, among other things, was Director of the Bureau of Political between 1977 and 1979 Military Affairs at the US State Department and President of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 2003 .

Life

Leslie Howard Gelb, who came from a Jewish family, began after attending New Rochelle High School in 1955 an undergraduate degree at Tufts University , which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a subsequent postgraduate course at Harvard University with a Master of Arts (MA), where he also earned a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy). After teaching as an assistant professor at Wesleyan University between 1965 and 1966 , he worked from 1966 to 1967 as an administrative assistant on the staff of Jacob K. Javits , who was US Republican Senator for New York from 1957 to 1971 . He then served as Director of Political Planning and Arms Control for International Security Affairs at the US Department of Defense between 1967 and 1969 .

Yellow then worked from 1969 to 1973 as a research scientist ( Senior Fellow ) at the Washington, DC- based think tank Brookings Institution and also taught as a visiting professor at Georgetown University . In 1971, a group of researchers around Gelb showed in the context of the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War that the decision to allow France to grant it in the August Revolution in 1945 in French Indochina had been taken internally while Franklin D. Roosevelt was still alive , and that a policy of detaching Indochina from the French colonial empire never existed. He was also a trustee of Tufts University and released on February 23, 1977 George S. Vest as head of the Department for Political-Military Affairs ( Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs ) in the US State Department , and held this position until 30 June 1979, whereupon Reginald Bartholomew became his successor. After his retirement from government service, he worked from 1980 to in 1981, a senior associate at the of Andrew Carnegie founded Endowment for International Peace (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and after 1981-1993 correspondent of the daily newspaper The New York Times for national security.

In 1993, Leslie Gelb became President of the Council on Foreign Relations think tank and held this position until he was succeeded by Richard Nathan Haass in July 2003. He was also involved in the supervisory bodies and boards of organizations such as the Plowshares Fund, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), VoteVets .org, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, International Crisis Group (ICG), Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom and Pacific Council on International Policy. Yellow has also been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1992 .

His marriage to Judith Cohen on August 2, 1959 resulted in three children.

Publications

Yellow also wrote various non-fiction books on topics of international politics such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War . His publications include:

• Anglo-American Relations, 1945–1949: Toward a Theory of Alliances (1964)
• The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked (1979)
• Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (1984)
• Claiming the Heavens: The New York Times Complete Guide to the Star Wars Debate (1988)
• Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (2009)
• The Myth That Screwed Up 50 Years of US Foreign Policy ( Foreign Policy , 2012)

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Leslie H. yellow in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leslie H. Gelb, 82, Former Diplomat and New York Times Journalist, Dies. Retrieved September 1, 2019 . 
2. ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for Politico-Military Affairs on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the State Department
3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter G. (PDF; 931 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 1, 2019 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
George S. Vest	Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs 1977–1979	Reginald Bartholomew