Morton H. Halperin | |
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Born | June 13, 1938 |
Nationality | American |
Education | B.A. Columbia University Ph.D. Yale University |
Occupation | Foreign policy analyst |
Spouse(s) | Ina Weinstein (divorced) Diane Orentlicher |
Children |
with Weinstein: --David Halperin --Gary Halperin --Mark Halperin |
Morton H. Halperin (born June 13, 1938) is an American expert on foreign policy and civil liberties. He served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations and in a number of roles with think tanks and universities such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University. He is currently Senior Advisor for the Open Society Institute, founded by George Soros.
Halperin was born to a Jewish family on June 13, 1938. He received his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in international relations from Yale University. With his first wife Ina Weinstein Young, he has three sons — David Halperin, Gary Halperin, and Mark Halperin, political analyst for Bloomberg news, MSNBC, Time magazine and Time.com. He is married to Diane Orentlicher, Professor of International Law at the American University Washington College of Law. Orentlicher formerly served as a Deputy to the Office of War Crimes for the United States State Department. He is the brother of Daniel Halperin, the Stanley S. Surrey Professor of Law at Harvard.