Robert E. Hunter

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Robert E. Hunter (right) with Damon Wilson at an Atlantic Council conference (2009)

Robert Edwards Hunter (* 1940 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is an American diplomat who was, among other things, Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO between 1993 and 1998 .

Life

After attending school, Robert Edwards Hunter began an undergraduate degree at Wesleyan University , from which he graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). During his studies he became a member of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa and, with the support of the Fulbright program , completed postgraduate studies in international relations at the London School of Economics (LSE), which he obtained in 1969 with a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) from. In the meantime, he worked as a research scientist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) from 1967 to 1969 and subsequently as a senior scientist at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) between 1970 and 1973 . During the tenure of US President Jimmy Carter , he served on the National Security Council ( NSC ) , initially as Director of the Department for Western Europe from 1977 to 1979 and then from 1979 to 1981 as Director of the Department for the Middle East .

In the following years between 1981 and 1993 Hunter wrote several hundred articles and columns for specialist journals such as Foreign Policy , Foreign Affairs , The Washington Quarterly , as well as numerous daily newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times , The New York Times and The Washington Post . On July 1, 1993, he replaced Reginald Bartholomew as Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO and held this post until his replacement by Alexander Vershbow on December 31, 1997.

After completing this diplomatic activity, Robert Hunter became a senior advisor to the think tank RAND Corporation in 1998 and worked for them until 2010. In addition, he was temporarily senior international advisor to the aerospace engineering and defense industry company Lockheed Martin and was temporarily involved in organizations such as the American Academy of Diplomacy , Center for National Policy (CNP), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and National Endowment for Democracy (NED). He also served temporarily as Director of European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as a member of the Advisory Board of the European Institute .

Publications

  • Future of NATO and Global Security , 1986
  • Making Government Work. From White House to Congress , co-author Wayne Berman , 1986
  • The Soviet Dilemma in the Middle East. Part I. Problems of Commitment (Adelphi Papers) , 2006
  • Integrating Instruments of Power and Influence in National Security. Starting the Dialogue , 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Permanent Representatives on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Robert E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunter, Robert Edwards
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat, writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge , Massachusetts