Adam Garfinkle

Adam Garfinkle
Born	Adam Morris Garfinkle (1951-06-01) June 1, 1951 Washington, D.C.
Residence	Potomac, Maryland
Nationality	United States
Education	B.A. and M.A., both 1972, Ph.D., 1979
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	editor, speechwriter, professor
Political party	'50s and '60s Democrat
Spouse(s)	Priscilla Elizabeth Taylor (a science teacher), June 21, 1981
Children	Gabriel Garfinkle 10/04/81 Hannah Garfinkle 04/26/85 Nathaniel Garfinkle 11/05/87
Parent(s)	Milton S. Garfinkle (day laborer and dairy worker) Berte (Luber)) Garfinkle(a U.S. Treasury worker and homemaker
Awards	Fellow of Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81 grant from Orbis and German Marshall Fund, 1981
Notes

Adam M. Garfinkle (born June 1, 1951 in Washington, D. C.) is the editor of The American Interest, a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of another such publication, The National Interest. He has been a university teacher and a staff member at high levels of the U.S. government. He was a speechwriter to more than one U.S. Secretary of State.

Garfinkle was a speechwriter for both George W. Bush's Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. He was editor of The National Interest and left to edit The American Interest magazine in 2005. Francis Fukuyama, Eliot Cohen, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Josef Joffe, and Ruth Wedgwood were among the magazine's founding leadership.

Early in his career, Dr. Garfinkle worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (1972–1978 and from 1981). He taught American foreign policy and Middle East politics at the University of Pennsylvania (1980–1989) and The Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He has also taught at Drexel University (1980), Widener College (Chester, Pennsylvania) (1981), Haverford College (1991), and Tel Aviv University (1992–1993). He served on the staff of the National Security Study Group of the US Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), as an aide to General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (1979–1980), and an assistant to Senator Henry M. Jackson (1979). As of 2009, he was a member of the project "Middle East at Harvard" (MESH).

Garfinkle has a B.A., M.A. (both 1972) and Ph.D. (1979) in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Books

• "Finlandization": A Map to a Metaphor, Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia), 1978.
• (With others) The Three Per Cent Solution and the Future of NATO, Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1981.
• Western Europe’s Middle East Diplomacy and the United States, Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1983.
• (Editor) Global Perspectives on Arms Control, Praeger (New York City), 1984.
• The Politics of the Nuclear Freeze, Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1984.
• (Coeditor and contributor) Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma, Macmillan/St. Martin's (New York City), 1991.
• Israel and Jordan in the Shadow of War: Functional Ties and Futile Diplomacy in a Small Place, Macmillan/St. Martin's, 1992.
• (Principal author) The Devil and Uncle Sam: A User's Guide to the Friendly Tyrants Dilemma, Transaction Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 1992.
• War, Water, and Negotiation in the Middle East: The Case of the Palestine-Syria Border, 1916–23, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv), 1994.
• Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (St. Martin’s) was named a “notable book of the year” (1995) in the New York Times Book Review.
• Israel: Myths and Realities, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Ft. Worth, TX), 1996.
• Politics and Society in Modern Israel: Myths and Reality, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk NY), 1997; 2nd edition 2000.
• A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism, editor, Hoover Institution Press (Stanford, CA), 2004.
• Israel, Mason Crest Publishers (Philadelphia, PA), 2004.
• Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk NY), 2012.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN