Arnold Kanter served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1991 to 1993. He also held a position on the White House

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 staff from 1989 to 1991 as Special Assistant to the President and served in a variety of capacities in the State Department from 1977 to 1985. He has served on the faculty of both Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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 and the University of Michigan

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 and also worked for several years in the 1980s at the RAND Corporation.

Kanter was born in Chicago

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 and was a founding member of The Scowcroft Group

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. He died in of cancer in April 2010.