Center for a New American Security

Derek Chollet was a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) until February 2009. He wa also a non-resident fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development Program and an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University. Previously, he was foreign policy adviser to Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), both on his legislative staff and during the 2004 Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign. During the Clinton administration, he served in the U.S. State Department in several capacities, including Chief Speechwriter for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke and Special Adviser to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. He has also assisted former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher with the research and writing of their memoirs, Holbrooke with his book on the Dayton peace process in Bosnia, and Talbott with his book on U.S.-Russian relations during the 1990s. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a visiting scholar and adjunct professor at The George Washington University. Educated at Cornell and Columbia, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the Woodrow Wilson House and the Truman National Security Project. He is the author, coauthor or coeditor of five books on American foreign policy, including America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (PublicAffairs, 2008), cowritten with James Goldgeier, The Road to the Dayton Accords: A Study of American Statecraft (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide, coedited with Tod Lindberg and David Shorr (Routledge, 2008).  His commentaries and reviews on U.S. foreign policy and politics have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, National Interest, Washington Monthly, and many other books and publications throughout the United States and around the world.

Veiw Selected Publications by Derek Chollet