Gideon Rose

GIDEON ROSE has been Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs since December 2000.  From 1995 to December 2000 he was Olin Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, during which time he served as Chairman of the Council's Roundtable on Terrorism and Director of numerous Council Study Groups. He has taught American foreign policy at Columbia and Princeton universities.

In 1994-95 Mr. Rose served as Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, as a National Security Fellow of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.  In 1986-87 he was Assistant Editor at the foreign policy quarterly The National Interest, and in 1985-86 held the same position at the domestic policy quarterly The Public Interest.

Mr. Rose received a Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University and a B.A. in Classics from Yale University.  His recent publications include How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (edited with James F. Hoge, Jr.; PublicAffairs, 2001); "Democracy Promotion and American Foreign Policy," International Security (Winter 2000/2001); "Conservatism and American Foreign Policy: Present Laughter vs. Utopian Bliss," The National Interest (Fall 1999); "It Can Happen Here: Facing the New Terrorism," Foreign Affairs (March/April 1999); and "The Rollback Fantasy," Foreign Affairs (January/February 1999).