Adam Garfinkle | |
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Born |
Adam Morris Garfinkle June 1, 1951 Washington, D.C. |
Residence | Wheaton, 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 naturalist and nature center director), 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 |
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Gabriel Garfinkle 10/04/81 Hannah Garfinkle 04/26/85
Adam M. Garfinkle (born June 1, 1951, in Washington, D.C.) is the founding editor of The American Interest, a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of 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 of President 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 in 2005. Francis Fukuyama, Eliot Cohen, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Josef Joffe, and Ruth Wedgwood were among the magazine's founding leadership.
Early in his career, 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.