Richard Nathan Haass

Richard Nathan Haass (2010)

Richard Nathan Haass (born July 28, 1951 in Brooklyn ) is an American diplomat and has been President of the Council on Foreign Relations since July 2003 .

Life and career

From 2001 he served as Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State and was considered a close advisor to then Secretary of State Colin Powell . As a confirmed ambassador to the United States Senate , he successfully assisted George J. Mitchell in advancing the peace process to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict . He also occupied the post of coordinator for future policy towards Afghanistan .

Haass acquired extensive political knowledge from 1989 to 1993 as National Security Council Senior Director for Middle East and South Asian Affairs and as Special Assistant to the President under George Bush . He was awarded the Presidental Citizens Medal for assistance in developing Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield . Previously, he held a number of positions in the State Department (1981-85), the Department of Defense (1979-80) and worked as a legislative assistant in the US Senate.

Furthermore he is:

• Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution
• Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Studies at Hamilton College
• Senior member of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace founded by Andrew Carnegie
• Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
• Research assistant at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

In 1973 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Oberlin College and then as a Rhodes scholar the Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford University .

He is the author of eleven books on foreign policy and one book on management . He and his wife have two children, Francesca and Sam, and currently resides in New York City .

bibliography

• Beyond the INF Treaty (1988, ISBN 0-8191-6942-0 )
• The Power to Persuade: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization (1995, ISBN 0-395-73525-4 )
  • updated in 1999 as The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization (1999, ISBN 0-8157-3353-4 )
• Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy (1998, ISBN 0-87609-212-1 )
• The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War (1997, ISBN 0-87609-198-2 )
• After the Tests: US Policy Toward India and Pakistan (1999, ISBN 0-87609-236-9 )
• Transatlantic Tensions: The United States, Europe, and Problem Countries (editor, 1999, ISBN 0-8157-3351-8 )
• Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (1999, ISBN 0-87003-135-X )
• Honey and Vinegar: Incentives, Sanctions, and Foreign Policy (2000, ISBN 0-8157-3355-0 )
• The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course (2006, ISBN 1-58648-453-2 )

Web links

Commons : Richard N. Haass  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Curriculum vitae from the US State Department 2002 ( Memento June 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) via Internet Archive
• Richard N. Haass in nndb (English)