RAND Expert Biography
Robert E. Hunter
Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation; President, Atlantic Treaty Association; Chairman, Council for a Community of Democracies; member, Senior Advisory Group to the United States European Command; Senior Concept Developer, Allied Command Transformation
Expertise
NATO, European Union, Middle East, Iraq, Russia, military strategy
Education
Ph.D., Fulbright Scholar, international relations, London School of Economics; B.A., Wesleyan University
Publications of Interest
Integrating Instruments of Power and Influence in National Security: Starting the Dialogue, Robert E. Hunter and Khalid Nadiri, RAND Corporation, 2006
Building a Successful Palestinian State: Security, Robert E. Hunter and Seth G. Jones, RAND Corporation, 2006
Engaging Russia as Partner and Participant: The Next Stage of NATO-Russia Relations, Robert E. Hunter and Sergey M. Rogov, RAND Corporation, 2004
The European Security and Defense Policy: NATO's Companion-or Competitor? RAND Corporation, 2002
Background
U.S. Ambassador to NATO under President Clinton; principal architect of the "New NATO," leading the North Atlantic Council in implementing decisions of the 1994 and 1997 NATO Summits and in obtaining air-strike decisions that halted the Bosnia war; member of Secretary Cohen's Defense Policy Board; Director of West European Affairs and later Director of Middle East Affairs on the National Security Council during the Carter administration, and a principal author of the Carter Doctrine for the Persian Gulf; foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy and foreign and domestic policy advisor to Vice President Humphrey; served on White House staff in the Johnson administration and in the U.S. Department of the Navy on the Polaris project
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: Bloomberg; CNN; Cox News Service; Fox; Globe and Mail; MSNBC; National Journal; PR; San Francisco Chronicle; Voice of America
Commentary: Baltimore Sun; Financial Times; Frontline Canada; International Herald Tribune; Marketplace Radio; Washington Post
To arrange an interview:
Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.
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