Morton H. Halperin
is a Senior Fellow at American Progress
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Mr. Morton Halperin is a Senior Fellow at American Progress. He is also the Executive Director of the Open Society Policy Center and the Director of the U.S. Advocacy for the Open Society Institute.
Background
Mr. Halperin has also been associated with a number of think tanks.
- He was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from January 2001 to June 2003 and from March 1996 to December 1998.
- Mr. Halperin has been a Senior Vice President of The Century Foundation/Twentieth Century Fund, a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies of the Brookings Institution.
In addition foreign policy issues, he has employed his skills with the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Serving as Director of the Center for National Security Studies there from 1975 to 1992, focusing on issues affecting both civil liberties and national security.
- From 1984 to 1992, he was also the Director of the Washington office of the ACLU, with responsibility for the ACLU's national legislative program as well as the activities of the ACLU Foundation based in the Washington office. (Source: CAP)
Professional Positions
- Mr. Halperin served in the federal government in the Clinton, Nixon, and Johnson administrations, most recently from December 1998 to January 2001 as Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State.
- In the Clinton administration, he was also Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy at the National Security Council, a consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and was nominated by the president for the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping.
- In 1969, Mr. Halperin was a Senior Staff member of the National Security Council responsible for National Security Planning.
- Mr. Halperin from July 1966 to January 1969, he worked in the Department of Defense, where he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, responsible for political-military planning and arms control. (Source: CAP)
Accomplishments
Halperin has authored, coauthored and edited more than a dozen books including Strategy and Arms Control (1961), Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (2006), The Lawless State (1976), Nuclear Fallacy (1987), Self-Determination in the New World Order (1992), The Democracy Advantage (2004), Protecting Democracy (2005) and Power and Superpower (2007).
He has also contributed articles to a number of newspapers, magazines, and journals, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Harpers, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, on subjects including national security and civil liberties, bureaucratic politics, democracy and human rights, military strategy, and arms control.
Articles by Morton H. Halperin:
- Safeguarding Liberty and Security Under FISA, October 31, 2007,
- Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy, July 12, 2007.
- Don't Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good on Immigration, June 6, 2007.
- Iraq and the Responsibility to Protect, May 29, 2007.
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