Strobe Talbott

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President, The Brookings Institution
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Strobe Talbott is president of the Brookings Institution. Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government service, and academe, is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties on Europe, Russia, South Asia and nuclear arms control. As deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, Talbott was deeply involved in both the conduct of U.S. policy abroad and the management of executive branch relations with Congress. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently, Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming, with William Antholis.  | View Full Bio

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    Fast Forward

    Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming

    2010, Strobe Talbott and William Antholis

    “Strobe Talbott and Bill Antholis have made an admirable and important effort to move beyond the recent political rancor in Washington. They have a plan for leaders who want to be serious about energy and climate. Instead of starting from entrenched ideological base camps, they concentrate on identifying common goals.” —Senator Richard G. Lugar (R–Ind.)

Recent Activity

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Contact

Email Strobe Talbott

202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of Communications

Resources

Expertise

  • Europe
  •  national security
  • NATO
  •  Russia/former Soviet Union
  • South Asia
  • UN/Global Governance
  • U.S. foreign policy

Experience

Current Positions

  • Chair, Foreign Affairs Policy Board, U.S. Department of State

Past Positions

  • Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University
  • Deputy Secretary of State (1994–2001)
  • Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States (1993–94)
  • Editor-at-Large and Foreign Affairs Columnist (1989–92), Washington Bureau Chief (1984–89), Diplomatic Correspondent (1977–84), White House Correspondent (1975–76), State Department Correspondent (1974–75), and Eastern Europe Correspondent (1971–73), Time Magazine

Education

  • M.Litt., Oxford University, 1971
  • B.A., Yale University, 1968

The Brookings Essay

A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan & India
Historian and journalist William Dalrymple looks to the present and future of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the longest war in its history. He sees the danger of an escalating conflict between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers that could threaten world peace.

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