About Stephen Schlesinger

Stephen Schlesinger is an Adjunct Fellow at the Century Foundation in New York City. He is the former Director of the World Policy Institute at the New School (1997-2006) and former publisher of the quarterly magazine, The World Policy Journal. Mr. Schlesinger received his BA from Harvard University, a certificate of study from Cambridge University and a JD from Harvard Law School. In the early 1970s, he edited and published The New Democrat Magazine. Thereafter he spent four years as a staff writer at Time Magazine. For twelve years, he served as New York State Governor Mario Cuomo’s speechwriter and foreign policy advisor. In the mid 1990s, he worked at the United Nations at Habitat, the agency dealing with cities.

He is the author of three books:

He is also the coeditor of The Journals of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr 1952-2000 published in 2007.

He is a specialist on the foreign policy of the Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama Administrations. He is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation Magazine, and The New York Observer. In 1978, he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. He has appeared on CNN, Fox TV, NBC, NPR, Air America and other media outlets and is a contributor to Huffingtonpost.com, Maximsnews.com and Takingnote.tcf.org. He is listed in Who's Who In America, Contemporary Authors, and Wikipedia. com. He has also appeared in five documentaries on the UN and one on the CIA coup in Guatemala and he consulted on director Steven Soderbergh's film "Che." He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Overseas Press Club, the UN Correspondents Association, PEN, the Author’s Guild, the FDR Institute Board of Governors, the Century Association, the Board of the New York State Archives Partnership Trust and is an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association.

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