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Date: January 26, 1999
Public Policy Expert Morton H. Halperin to Offer ``Reflections of a Policy Planner'' at Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Morton H. Halperin, currently the director of the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, will speak on ``Defining American Interests in the Post-Cold-War Era: Reflections of a Policy Planner'' at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday February 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
Halperin served in the federal government during the Johnson and Nixon administrations and in the first Clinton administration. From 1994 to 1996 he was a special assistant to the president and senior director for democracy at the National Security Council. In 1993, he was a consultant to the secretary of defense and the under secretary of defense for policy, and was nominated by the president for the position of assistant secretary of defense for democracy and peacekeeping. In 1969, he was a senior staff member of the National Security Council, with responsibility for national security planning. From 1966 until 1969, he worked in the Department of Defense, where he served as deputy assistant secretary of defense with responsibility for political-military planning and arms control.
Halperin has also worked for many years for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as the director of the Center for National Security Studies from 1975 until 1992, focusing on issues affecting civil liberties and national security, such as the proper role of intelligence agencies and government secrecy. From 1984 until 1992, he was also the director of the Washington Office of the ACLU, with responsibility for the ACLUís national legislative program as well as the activities of the ACLU Foundation based in the Washington Office.
Halperin has also been the senior vice president of The Century Foundation/Twentieth Century Fund and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Johns Hopkins, and Yale.
He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books, among them Self-Determination in the New World Order, Nuclear Fallacy, and Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy. He has also contributed numerous articles to newspapers, magazines, and journals, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Harpers, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy on topics including national security and civil liberties, bureaucratic politics, Japan, China, military strategy, and arms control.
His talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.