Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan (born September 26, 1958 in Athens) is an American neoconservative scholar and political commentator. He graduated from Yale University in 1980. He later earned a Masters from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD from American University in Washington, DC. He is a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, PNAC Letter sent to US President Bill Clinton. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Robert's brother Frederick and father Donald are also prominent American neoconservatives, and also affiliated with the PNAC.

Kagan worked at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1985-1988) and was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz (1984-1985). Prior to that, he was foreign policy advisor to New York Representative and future Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp (1983). He has also been foreign-policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. Kagan is a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Kagan, who has written for The New Republic, Policy Review, the Washington Post (monthly), and the Weekly Standard, now lives in Brussels, Belgium, with his family.

He is married to Victoria Nuland, the current U.S. ambassador to NATO and has two children, Elena and David.

Among books written by Kagan includes:

Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order.

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Victoria Nuland

Victoria Nuland is the current ambassador of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

A career Foreign Service officer, she was Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney from July 2003 until May 2005, where she worked on the full range of global issues, including the promotion of democracy and security in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the broader Middle East.

Nuland was the Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO from July 2000 to July 2003. There she was instrumental in NATO's invocation of Article 5 of its charter – "an attack on one ally is an attack on all" – in support of the United States after September 11, 2001. She also worked intensively on the enlargement of the Alliance to include seven new members, the creation of the NATO-Russia Council, NATO's first deployment "out of area" to Afghanistan and its defense of Turkey during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

From 1997 to 1999, Nuland was Deputy Director for former Soviet Union affairs at the United States Department of State, with primary responsibility for U.S. policy towards the Russian Federation and the Caucasus countries. In that capacity, she was awarded the Secretary of Defense's Distinguished Civilian Service medal for her work with the Russians during the Kosovo air campaign.

Nuland has twice been a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1999 to 2000, she looked at the effect of Anti-Americanism on U.S. relations with other major world powers as a "Next Generation" Fellow at the Council, and from 1996 to 1997, as a State Department Fellow, she directed a CFR task force on "Russia, its Neighbors and an Expanding NATO," which was chaired by Senator Richard Lugar.

From 1993 to 1996, Nuland was chief of staff to the Deputy Secretary of State where she worked on the nuclear disarmament of Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus, Bosnia and Kosovo policy and the U.S. intervention in Haiti, among other issues. From 1991 to 1993, she covered Russian internal politics at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow focusing on Boris Yeltsin and his government. She has also served on the Soviet Desk (1988-1990), in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia where she helped open the first U.S. Embassy (1988), in the State Department's Bureaus of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1987) and in Guangzhou, China (1985-1986).

Nuland is the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland. She graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979 and has a B.A. from Brown University. Nuland is married to political scientist Robert Kagan, with whom she has two children, David and Elena. She speaks Russian and French, and some Chinese.

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Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin Nuland (born December 1930) is an American surgeon who teaches bioethics and medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he obtained his M.D. degree. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winning How We Die, and has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He is also the father of the current U.S. ambassador to NATO, Victoria Nuland.

Biography

Nuland was born in the Bronx, New York City, in December of 1930 to immigrant Jewish parents Meyer and Vitsche Nudelman. His father arrived from a small Russian town, Bessarabia, in 1907 when he was still in his teens. Sherwin and his older brother Harvey officially changed their surname from Nudelman to Nuland on October 17, 1947. Although raised in a traditional Orthodox Jewish home, Sherwin now considers himself agnostic, but continues to attend synagogue.

Sherwin is a graduate of New York University and Yale School of Medicine, where he also completed a residency in surgery. He was married twice, has four children, 2 from each marriage, and currently resides in Connecticut with his wife Sara.

Books

* The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being (New York: Random House, 2007)
* The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003)
* Doctors: The Biography of Medicine (New York: Knopf, 1988)
* How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994)
* How We Live (New York: Vintage Books, 1998) [originally published as The Wisdom of the Body in 1997]
* Leonardo Da Vinci (Penguin Lives) (New York: Viking, 2000)
* Lost in America: A Journey with My Father (New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003)
* Maimonides (Jewish Encounters) (New York: Nextbook: Schocken, 2005)
* Medicine: The Art of Healing (New York : Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. : Distributed by Macmillan, 1992)
* The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000)
* The Wisdom of the Body (New York: Knopf, 1997)

References

* Nuland, Sherwin B. (2003), Lost in America: A Journey with My Father

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