Gideon Rose


Gideon Rose is the editor of Foreign Affairs, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 under the Clinton Administration.

Early life and education

Rose was born to a Jewish family, the son of Joanna and Daniel Rose, a real estate developer. He attended the Horace Mann School. In 1985 he earned a B.A. in Classics from Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key. He received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1994.

Career

In 1985 Rose was appointed assistant editor of The National Interest, a foreign policy quarterly. He then went on to hold a similar position at a domestic quarterly called The Public Interest. He served as Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 under the Clinton Administration.
In 1996 he joined Princeton University's Politics Department as a lecturer on American foreign policy, before holding a similar position at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Rose was an Olin Senior Fellow and the Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2000, before he was appointed managing editor of Foreign Affairs to replace Fareed Zakaria. On June 3, 2010, it was announced that Rose would be succeeding James F. Hoge, Jr. as the editor of Foreign Affairs. He took up the position on October 1, 2010.

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