Strobe Talbott

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III


order=12th
title=United States Deputy Secretary of State
term_start=February 23, 1994
term_end=January 19, 2001
president=Bill Clinton
predecessor=Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.
successor=Richard Armitage
birth_date=April 25, 1946
birth_place=Dayton, Ohio
death_date=
death_place=
profession=journalist, translator, diplomat, political scientist
party=Democratic

Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio to Jo & Bud Talbott) is an American journalist associated with "Time" magazine, political scientist and diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 until 2001. He has also been a friend of Bill Clinton since their days as fellow Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford, where he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English.

Through the 1980s he was "Time" magazine's principal correspondent on Soviet-American relations, and wrote several books on disarmament, and his work for the magazine was cited in the three Overseas Press Club Awards won by "Time" in the 1980s. Following Clinton's election to national office, Talbot was invited into government where he served at first managing the consequences of the Soviet breakup as Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States.

After leaving government, he was for a short period Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He is currently the president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Yale University in 1968 and was chairman of the Yale Daily News, a position whose previous incumbents include Henry Luce, William F. Buckley, and Joe Lieberman. He was also a member of the Scholar of the House program in 1967-8.

Talbott is a noted author who wrote in a July 20, 1992 "Time" magazine article, "The Birth of the Global Nation", that "The best mechanism for democracy, whether at the level of the multinational state or that of the planet as a whole, is not an all-powerful Leviathan or centralized superstate, but a federation, a union of separate states that allocate certain powers to a central government while retaining many others for themselves." [Talbott, Strobe. " [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976015-1,00.html The Birth of the Global Nation] ", "Time" magazine, July 20, 1992. Retrieved June 30, 2007]

At Brookings he is responsible for formulating and setting policies, recommending projects, approving publications and selecting staff. 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. In a recent appearance at Google he discussed his career, his work, and his latest thoughts on U.S. foreign policy. [Talbott, Strobe. " [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNV5AITOVIk Google Talks with Strobe Talbott] ", "Authors@Google Series" April 09, 2007.] In a speech at the University of Virginia he discussed the role of independent research in partisan times. [http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/digitalarchive/forumDetail/1936] He recently testified at a hearing on Russia and U.S.-Russians Relations before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives. [http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/tal103007.htm]

Partial bibliography

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Quotes

“The Reagan Administration has made a bad situation worse in two ways: first, by convincing the Soviet leaders that the U.S. no longer accepts military parity as the basis for relations with Moscow; second, by challenging the legitimacy of the Soviet regime, calling the U.S.S.R. an ‘evil empire’ doomed to fail.” -Strobe Talbott (Time, May 21, 1984)

References

External links and further reading

* "The Master of the Game," by Charles Lane. "The New Republic", March 7, 1994, pp. 19-20+22-23+26+28-29.
* [http://www.brookings.edu/experts/talbotts.aspx Strobe Talbott's Brookings Expert Page]
* [http://www.iran.org/tib/krt/strobe.htm Strobe Talbott: Russia's Man in Washington] by Kenneth R. Timmerman, The American Spectator, April 1998 [http://www.afpc.org/rrm/rrm427.htm]