Contributors
Derek Chollet
Derek Chollet is a fellow in the CSIS International Security Program where he
works on a variety of issues related to U.S. foreign policy and national security
strategy. Prior to joining CSIS, he was foreign policy adviser to Senator John
Edwards (D-N.C.), both on his legislative staff and during the 2004 Kerry/Edwards
presidential campaign. Earlier, during the Clinton administration, he served in
the U.S. State Department in several capacities, including chief speechwriter
for Richard Holbrooke, then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; special adviser
to Strobe Talbott, then-deputy secretary of state; and adviser in the Bureau of
Public Affairs. He has also assisted former secretaries of state James A. Baker
III and Warren Christopher with the research and writing of their memoirs, Holbrooke
with his book on the Dayton peace process in Bosnia, and Talbott with his book
on U.S.-Russian relations during the 1990s. He has been a fellow at the American
Academy in Berlin and a visiting scholar at the George Washington University.
Educated at Cornell and Columbia Universities, he is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations. He is the author of the book The Road to the Dayton Accords:
A Study of American Statecraft (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), a regular contributor
to the weblog Democracy Arsenal,
and his many commentaries and reviews on U.S. foreign policy and politics have
appeared in numerous books and publications throughout the United States and Europe.