At the United States Naval Academy in annapolis, and served as senior fellow at the council on Foreign Relations in new york. A contributor to such publications as the new york times, the washington post, wall , newsweek,nal, time the london observer. Professor mandelbaum served for 23 years as the associate director of the Aspen Institute congressional project on American Relations with the former communist world. He serves on the board of advisors also the Washington Institute for near east Foreign Policy near east policy. A washingtonbased organization sponsoring research and public discussion on american policy towards the middle east. Born in 1946, professor mandelbaum is a graduate of yale college. He earned his masters degree at Kings College cambridge university, and his doctorate at harvard university. Professor mandelbaum is the or coauthor of numerous articles and essays, and 15 books, the nuclear question, the United States and 1976,r weapons 1946 to and the Nuclear Revolut
Wakeup call for us and we say, whoa, youre right. We want to be the country that we have long been with want to be the country that sets the right International Norms elm want to be the country setting the example that other people should follow that will make the world better. We need to get out there. We need to be saying to other states, yeah, we are going to be in this in between war and peace land forever where threats wont look like uniformed military personnel. So how do we collectively come up with some kind of International Rules and institutions that both recognize that those threats are real but dont throw human rights and the rule of law out the window in order to respond . Let figure this out. Its going to be hard. Let figure it out. I dont know which path well go down. W hope its the latter path. Host so, rosa, you are writing this book at a time when were about to transition administrations. People will be coming to youve, if they vest already, some shy go into governmen