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President, The Brookings Institution

Strobe Talbott

Strobe Talbott

President, The Brookings Institution

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.



Expertise

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

Background

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

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Q&A with Strobe Talbott

Global Challenges for the Next U.S. President

"The Non-proliferation Treaty is coming apart in a way that could mean that we could have 15, 20 maybe as many as 30 countries with nuclear weapons in another decade. And that means you've got the potential not just for thermo-nuclear war but multiple thermo-nuclear wars..."

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