Ivo H. Daalder
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Ivo H. Daalder, has been the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization since May 2009. He is a specialist in European security. He was a member of the staff of United States National Security Council
United States National Security Council
The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...

 (NSC) during the administration of President Bill Clinton
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, and was one of the foreign policy advisers to President Barack Obama
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 during his 2008 presidential campaign.

Education and Academic Career

Daalder was educated at the University of Kent
University of Kent
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, Oxford University, and Georgetown University
Georgetown University
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, and received his Ph.D
Doctor of Philosophy
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 in political science
Political science
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 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. He was fellow at Harvard University
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's Center for Science and International Affairs and the International Institute for Strategic Studies
International Institute for Strategic Studies
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 in London
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. He received a Pew
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 Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs and an International Affairs Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations
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. Daalder was an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park
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’s School of Public Affairs, where he was also director of research at the Center for International and Security Studies. He was a Senior Fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution
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 from 1997 to 2009, where he was a specialist in European security, transatlantic relations, and national security affairs.

National Security Council and Hart-Rudman Commission

In 1995-97, Daalder served as as a director for European Affairs on the National Security Council
United States National Security Council
The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...

 staff under President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward Bosnia. From 1998-2001, Daalder served as a member of the Study Group of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), a multi-year examination of U.S. national security requirements and institutions.

Permanent Representative to NATO

On March 11, 2009, President Obama nominated Daalder to become the United States Permanent Representative to NATO
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, a post commonly referred to as "U.S. Ambassador to NATO".

One of the issues that Ambassador Daalder has addressed is the lack of communication on security issues between NATO and the European Union
European Union
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. In October 2010 he wrote in the International Herald Tribune: "NATO and E.U. capabilities need to be in synch, and their operations need to be complementary. We should regularly engage in a robust and transparent exchange of views on a wide range of shared interests. Policy should support work in the field; those in harm's way shouldn't have to work around our failures in Brussels."

Books


Newspaper articles


Other publications

  • “In the Shadow of the Oval Office: The Next National Security Adviser", with I. M. Destler, Foreign Affairs
    Foreign Affairs
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    , January/February 2009, pp. 114–29.
  • “The Logic of Zero", with Jan Lodal, Foreign Affairs
    Foreign Affairs
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    , November/December 2008, pp. 80–95.
  • “America and the Use of Force: Sources of Legitimacy,” with Robert Kagan
    Robert Kagan
    Robert Kagan is an American historian and foreign policy commentator.-Early life and education:Kagan graduated from Yale University in 1980 where he was tapped by Skull and Bones, studied history, and founded the Yale Political Monthly. He later earned an MPP from the John F...

    , in Chollet, Lindberg and Shorr (eds). “Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide”, 2008.
  • “Restore Trust in America's Leadership”, with James M. Lindsay
    James M. Lindsay
    James M. Lindsay , is the Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy. He is also the award-winning coauthor of and former Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs at the...

    , ‘’Democracy: A Journal of Ideas’’, Fall 2007.
  • “Coping with Failure in Iraq”, Vrij Nederland
    Vrij Nederland
    Vrij Nederland is a Dutch magazine which was established during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II as an underground newspaper but has since grown into a magazine. The weekly magazine is generally considered to be intellectually left-wing...

    , June 16, 2007.
  • (With James M. Lindsay
    James M. Lindsay
    James M. Lindsay , is the Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy. He is also the award-winning coauthor of and former Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs at the...

    ) “Democracies of the World, Unite: The Debate Continues,” The American Interest, Vol. II, No. 4 (March/April 2007), pp. 137–139
  • “Democracies of the World, Unite”, with James M. Lindsay
    James M. Lindsay
    James M. Lindsay , is the Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy. He is also the award-winning coauthor of and former Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs at the...

    , The American Interest
    The American Interest
    The American Interest is a non-partisan bimonthly magazine focusing primarily on foreign policy, international affairs, global economics, and matters related to the military...

    , January/February 2007.
  • “Renewing the Nuclear Bargain,” with Michael H. Fuchs and Morton H. Halperin, in Halperin, Laurenti, Rundlet and Boyer (eds) ‘’Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century’’, 2007.
  • “Global NATO”, with James Goldgeier, Foreign Affairs
    Foreign Affairs
    Foreign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...

    , September/October 2006, pp. 105–113.

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