Foreign affairs writer, editor, reporter
washington, district of columbia, united states
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Claim your profileI've reported (from 70+ countries) and edited international news and analysis for four decades, most recently at foreign-affairs institutions in Washington. My recent years' work -- including op-ed essays, books, a policy newsletter, website articles, speeches and congressional testimony -- focuses on violent conflicts (in Ukraine, Afghanistan and elsewhere) and how to stop them.I've been a correspondent and editor at The Washington Post, New York's Newsday and Bloomberg News, resident in Rabat, Tunis, Paris, New Delhi, Tashkent, Kyiv, Abidjan and Islamabad (as well as Washington and New York). I also reported for Reuters, CBS, France24 and the Christian Science Monitor. I edited a book on the militarization of U.S. foreign policy in the half-century since President Eisenhower warned Americans about the military-industrial complex.Specialties: international relations, security and wars; news reporting and editing (print, broadcast, web); investigative reporting (on corruption, human rights and war crimes); international news management (foreign desk operations, foreign correspondents and bureaus); op-ed writing/editing; think-tank communications; book reviews (on international affairs); and training/mentoring of young journalists and writers.






Russian Language Studies at Tashkent State University Of EconomicsGraduated: 1992
Arabic Language Studies at Cairo University (جامعة القاهرة)Graduated: 1983
Bachelors, Political Science, International Relations at Edmonds CollegeGraduated: 1979
Bachelor Of Arts, International Relations, Political Science at Swarthmore CollegeGraduated: 1979