Experts
Derek Chollet
Deputy Director of Policy Planning, The State Department.
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Derek Chollet explains how the fall of the Berlin Wall affected US foreign policy. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Trying to apply sweeping generalizations to foreign policy only does the country a disservice, says Derek Chollet. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Derek Chollet explains the implications of the controversial decision to not invade Baghdad in 1991. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy, World
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Why George Bush Sr. Was Not Re-Elected
According to Derek Chollet, the end of the Cold War left Americans unconcerned about foreign policy, and the Democrats used this to their advantage. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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The pillars of Clinton's foreign policy, democracy promotion, trade, and the use of force when necessary are more controversial today than they were ten years ago. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Derek Chollet explains the Rwandan genocide as a result of a foreign policy too easily swayed by politics. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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The organization of the American government can make foreign policy difficult to execute, therefore Clinton's foreign policy is even more admirable. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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The UN is not yet prepared to handle international crises, leading Derek Chollet to consider McCain's plan for a new international organization. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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The time period after the fall of the Berlin Wall is crucial to understanding the fall of the Twin Towers, says Derek Chollet. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Why Bush is Not to Blame for Everything
Derek Chollet explains that for the sake of future decisions, it must be understood that many of our current foreign policy problems arose before 2000. Read More
August 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
Derek Chollet is the Principal Deputy Director of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff. Prior to joining the State Department, he was a Senior Fellow at The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a non-resident fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development Program and an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University. During the Bill Clinton administration, he served in the State Department in several capacities, including as Chief Speechwriter for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke, and Special Adviser to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Mr. Chollet also assisted former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher with the research and writing of their memoirs, Holbrooke with his book on the Dayton peace process in Bosnia, and Talbott with his book on U.S.-Russian relations during the 1990s. He was foreign policy adviser to Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), both on his legislative staff and during the 2004 Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign.
Mr. Chollet has been a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a visiting scholar and adjunct professor at The George Washington University. He is the author, co-author or coeditor of five books on American foreign policy, including The Road to the Dayton Accords: A Study of American Statecraft (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11, coauthored with James Goldgeier (PublicAffairs, 2008). His commentaries and reviews on U.S. foreign policy and politics have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Washington Monthly, and many other books and publications. Educated at Cornell and Columbia, Mr. Chollet was raised in Lincoln, Nebraska.
