Robert Edwards Hunter is an American government employee and foreign policy expert who was United States ambassador to NATO during the Clinton administration.
Early life and education
Hunter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1940. He earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University, graduating in 1962[1] with honors and Phi Beta Kappa. Hunter earned a Doctor of Philosophy in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1969 as a Fulbright Scholar.[citation needed]
Career
During the Clinton administration, Hunter was United States Ambassador to NATO (1993–1998), where he was principal architect and negotiator of the post-Cold War "new NATO" and of the NATO airstrike decisions that ended the Bosnian War.[citation needed]
Throughout the administration of President Jimmy Carter, Hunter was the senior-most official on West European Affairs (1977–1979) and then Middle East Affairs (1979–1981) on the National Security Council staff. He was the first foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (1973–1977). He served on the White House staff, focusing on education, under President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964–1965). He was an administrative management intern at the U.S. Navy's Polaris Project, both in Washington and the British Admiralty.[citation needed]
Hunter is the author of articles and a number of books. Until July 2018, Hunter was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He was a member of the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board from 2011 to 2017 (when it was dissolved).[2] He was Director of the Center for Transatlantic Security Studies at the National Defense University from 2010 to 2012, and Senior Advisor at the RAND Corporation from 1998 to 2010.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- Security in Europe, Indiana University Press, 1972
- Presidential Control of Foreign Policy: Management or Mishap, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1982
- The European Security and Defense Policy: NATO's Companion – or Competitor?, RAND, 2002
- Building a Successful Palestinian State: Security (with Seth Jones), RAND, 2006
- Building Security in the Persian Gulf, RAND, 2010.
Personal life
He is married to Shireen Hunter (née Tahmasseb).[3]
References
- ^ "Alumni Awards: Distinguished Alumni Award". Archived from the original on 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ "International Security Advisory Board (ISAB)". U.S. State Department archive (2009–2017). 2016-12-29. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
- ^ Hunter, Shireen; Hunter, Shireen T. (2014). Reformist Voices of Islam: Mediating Islam and Modernity: Mediating Islam and Modernity. Routledge. pp. preface. ISBN 978-1-317-46123-4. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
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