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Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
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Phone: +1-212-434-9683
E-mail: matthew.waxman@law.columbia.edu
Location:
New York, NY
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Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Currently directing a roundtable series on the rule of law and U.S. foreign policy.
Expertise:Domestic and international legal aspects of counterterrorism.
Experience:International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (2007-2008); Principal Deputy Director of the U.S. State Department’s Policy Planning Staff; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs; director of security and justice affairs, Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority, Washington, DC; Director for Contingency Planning and International Justice at the National Security Council; special assistant to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter (2000-2001) and Judge Joel Flaum in the U.S. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit, 1999-2000); consultant, RAND Corporation; member, Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law.
Honors:Fulbright Scholar, Department of War Studies, University of London, King's College (1994-1995); Townsend and Gherini prizes for outstanding scholarship in international law while editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Selected Publications:The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Current Research Project
November 18, 2008
Op-Ed
Foreign Policy
Matthew Waxman, in an interview with Foreign Policy, gives reason to why closing Guantánamo Bay won't be so easy.
See more in Defense/Homeland Security, Democracy and Human Rights
July 15, 2008
Testimony
In prepared testimony to the United States Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), Matthew Waxman discusses the legal and policy decisions regarding the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and the possibility of closing it down.
See more in Democracy and Human Rights, Terrorism and the Law
In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
Complete list of CFR Books.
This report lays out a thoughtful agenda for U.S. policy toward the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguing that what happens there should matter to the United States--for humanitarian reasons as well as economic and strategic ones.
In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
Gary Samore
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9627
gsamore@cfr.org
Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for
Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior
Fellow for International Economics
smallaby@cfr.org
Janine Hill
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1.212.434.9753
jhill@cfr.org
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