Strobe Talbott To Speak On Foreign Policy

Strobe Talbott, former Deputy Secretary of State and President of the Brookings Institution, will speak on "American Foreign Policy in an Age of Preeminence" on March 5 at 5:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study.

The lecture is sponsored by the Institute’s School of Historical Studies.

Talbott came to the Brookings Institution, a public policy research institution based in Washington, D.C., in 2002, after a term as director of the Yale University Center for the Study of Globalization. He served in the State Department from 1993 to 2001: for a year as Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, and then as Deputy Secretary of State.

He entered government service after 21 years as a Time magazine journalist. Before becoming Time’s Editor-at-Large and foreign affairs columnist, he had been Washington Bureau chief, diplomatic correspondent, White House correspondent, State Department correspondent, and Eastern Europe correspondent for the magazine.

Talbott is author of six books on U.S.-Soviet relations and nuclear arms control, the most recent of which is The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (2002). Other books include At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War (with M. Beschloss, 1993). Talbott co-edited (with N. Chanda) The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11 (2001).

A graduate of Yale University, Talbott, a former Rhodes Scholar, earned an M. Litt. from Oxford University.

The talk is free and open to the public. For further information call 609-734-8300