Justine A. Rosenthal

Justine A. Rosenthal is the executive editor of Newsweek/Daily Beast. Rosenthal previously served as editor of The National Interest, adjunct professor at Georgetown University, a research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, the director of the Executive Office at the Council on Foreign Relations, special assistant to former–Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, and the director of the Atlantic Monthly Foundation. As a Luce Scholar and Lecturer, she spent considerable time in China teaching courses on international relations theory and post–Cold War security issues. Rosenthal received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, where she was awarded Einstein and Presidential Fellowships. 


Essays

A Sit-Down with Brent Scowcroft

| 01.21.09

The principles of transformationalism—idealism spread by the barrel of a gun—have been central to America’s foreign-policy failings over the last eight years. With a new leadership in power, Washington has a chance to right past wrongs. But that w

Voting Blind

| 09.03.08

John McCain and Barack Obama are busily offering foreign-policy platitudes on the campaign trail, mostly about spreading freedom, working with allies and hunting down terrorists. But what exactly would they do if elected? Digging ourselves out of

Security

The Closer

| 11.02.07

Every major presidential candidate is asking for more, more, more when it comes to foreign policy. Maybe what we need is less. The United States seems best suited for the role of last-minute hero, swooping in to solve global problems after all oth

Security

Jigsaw Jihadism

| 01.03.07

Ethnic terrorist groups like Hamas can be engaged but there is no negotiating with religious terrorists. A strategy for splitting up the Al-Qaeda network.

Commentary

Security

On Their Own Merits

| 06.24.10

No one should be making any assumptions about the Palestinians’ hearts and minds in coming up with policy.

Economics

Maurice Greenberg on What's Next for Wall Street

| 10.02.08

Prominent financier and former–AIG chairman and CEO Maurice R. Greenberg discusses why the financial bubble burst and how we might get out of the current crisis.

Two Lifelong Republicans Turn Blue-And Speak Out

| 02.07.08

Prominent foreign-policy expert Susan Eisenhower, a lifelong Republican and the granddaughter of Ike, is now supporting Barack Obama.

From Dole to Clinton: Why One Man Changed Sides

| 02.06.08

Robert Ellsworth, three-term Republican congressman, former ambassador to NATO and the man who ran Bob Dole’s presidential campaign in 1988, has switched sides. After endorsing Clinton, Ellsworth discusses how the Republicans have lost their soul,

Politics

Ike's Granddaughter Speaks

| 02.04.08

Prominent foreign-policy expert Susan Eisenhower expands on her editorial in the Washington Post about why she supports Obama, what's wrong with the Republican Party and what we can learn from her grandfather.

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