James Goldgeier is the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow for transatlantic
relations at the Council on Foreign Relations and is a professor of
political science and international affairs at George Washington
University. He is the coauthor of Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward
Russia after the Cold War, and is the author of Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO and Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy. He has served at the U.S. State Department and National Security Council, and was a visiting fellow at Stanford University, the Brookings Institution, the Library of Congress, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He also directed the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University.

Derek Chollet is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security
(CNAS). He is also a non-resident fellow in the Brookings Institution’s
Global Economy and Development Program and an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University. Chollet has served at the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Senate, and was a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the American Academy in Berlin, and was a visiting scholar and adjunct professor at the George Washington University. He is the author or coeditor of several books on American foreign policy, including The Road to the Dayton Accords: A Study of American Statecraft, and Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide.

Blog Entries by Jim Goldgeier and Derek Chollet

Democracy Promotion's Discontent

Posted August 22, 2008 | 09:46 AM (EST)


As Russia's military rumbled into Georgia last week, the United Nations Security Council was nowhere to be seen. And how could it be otherwise given Moscow's veto power? This sad fact would seem to give a boost to the notion promoted by Senator John McCain and many prominent Democrats that...

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The (Bill) Clinton Legacy

Posted June 9, 2008 | 01:47 PM (EST)


Barack Obama has vanquished Hillary Clinton, but when it comes to his evolving foreign policy, he still must grapple with the legacy her husband left behind. Bill Clinton worked hard to move the Democratic Party to the center, and most pundits believe that for Obama to win this November, he...

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