Walter Russell Mead

Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy Council on Foreign Relations

Walter Russell Mead is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, international political economy, religion and foreign policy.

Mr. Mead is the author of “Power, Terror, Peace and War: America’s Grand Strategy in a World of Risk” (2004) and “Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World” (2001) as well as articles in Esquire, Worth, The New York Times, International Herlad Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker.

He has received the Lionel Gelber Award for the best book in English on international relations in 2002 and is currently a Board Member for the New America Foundation.

Mr. Mead received his B.A. from Yale University.