Peter W. Galbraith

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Peter W. Galbraith

Peter Woodard Galbraith (born December 31, 1950 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is a former US diplomat , civil servant, professor and writer. He is the son of John Kenneth Galbraith and Catherine Merriam Atwater . Galbraith has degrees from Harvard University , Oxford University and Georgetown University .

Career

Galbraith served on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee from 1979 to 1993 . There he wrote reports on Iraq . His focus was on Kurdistan . In 1987 he discovered Saddam Hussein's systematic destruction of Kurdish villages. A year later he wrote the "Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988" draft law. This would have imposed extensive sanctions on Iraq for gassing the Kurds. The bill was passed unanimously in the Senate , but was labeled "premature" by the Reagan Cabinet and was not adopted.

In 1993, Galbraith was sent to Croatia by US President Bill Clinton as the first US Ambassador to Croatia . In 1995 he was co-mediator and one of the main architects of the Erdut Agreement . With this, Eastern Slavonia, inhabited by Serbs, was brought back under Croatian control. In January 1998 he was followed by William Dale Montgomery .

From 2000 to 2001 he served the UN in East Timor as Minister for Political Affairs of the First Interim Government under the United Nations Interim Administration for East Timor (UNTAET). He was East Timor's negotiator for sea borders with Australia and responsible for two agreements, including the Timor Sea Treaty of 2002.

Galbraith was Professor of National Security Strategy (NSS) at the National War College (NWC), an institute of the National Defense University of the US Armed Forces at Theodore Roosevelt Hall , Fort Lesley J. McNair , Washington, in 1999 and between 2001 and 2003 . DC , the US Army's oldest active base .

Galbraith was politically uncomfortable and, above all, pleaded for the independence of Kurdistan. In 2003 he quit his service with the US government after 24 years because he did not conform to the US Iraq policy of the Bush administration and they wanted to give Galbraith a mouthpiece. In 2006 his book The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End was published . In it Galbraith pleads for a division of Iraq into independent areas for Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis.

The Norwegian stock exchange newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reported on October 10, 2009 about Galbraith's secret property interests in Kurdish oil fields. Galbraith's company, Porcupine LP, had a "contractual relationship" with the Norwegian oil company DNO International , which in turn has a 55% interest in the Iraqi Tawke oil mega-project in Kurdistan.

politics

On January 17, 2008, Galbraith commented on a possible candidacy for governor of Vermont as a Democratic candidate . On May 13, 2008, he distanced himself from these plans.

Afghanistan

Galbraith was appointed "Deputy UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan" on March 25, 2009 and was Vice President of the United Nations Support Mission in Afghanistan . On September 15, 2009, Galbraith was removed from his post at the request of the UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kai Eide , following a dispute over the handling of reported fraud cases in the 2009 Afghan presidential election .

In response to his dismissal, Galbraith told the Times , “I was not prepared to be complicit in a cover-up or in an effort to downplay the fraud that took place. I felt we had to face squarely the fraud that took place. Kai downplayed the fraud. "

Books

  • Galbraith, Peter (2006), The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End; Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0743294238
  • Galbraith, Peter W. (2008), Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies; Simon & Schuster. ISBN 1416562257

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lydia M. Beuman: Political Institutions in East Timor: semi-presidentialism and Democratization (2016).
  2. ↑ Sparket toppdiplomat i omstridt dobbeltrolle , Dagens Næringsliv of October 10, 2009
  3. ^ Galbraith admits Kurdish oil interest - Roula Khalaf, Martin Sandbu and Andrew Ward, Financial Times, October 15, 2009
  4. ↑ VN: SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS PETER W. GALBRAITH OF UNITED STATES AS DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR AFGHANI of March 25, 2009
  5. ↑ (dead link) - Times Online, September 15, 2009
  6. ↑ (dead link) - Times Online October 1, 2009
  7. ↑ Dismissed Afghan Envoy Speaks Out ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - The Take Away from October 1, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thetakeaway.org
personal data
SURNAME Galbraith, Peter W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galbraith, Peter Woodard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat, civil servant, professor, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts