John Bolton

John R. Bolton currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His area of research is U.S. foreign and national security policy. Prior to arriving at AEI, Amb. Bolton served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 1, 2005 to December 9, 2006. From June 2001 to May 2005, Ambassador Bolton served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, also in the Bush Administration. Prior to this, Ambassador Bolton was Senior Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He supervised the AEI research program, financial oversight, dissemination of the AEI research and publications, public affairs and general management. Ambassador Bolton has spent many years of his career in public service. Previous positions he has held are Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs at the Department of State, 1989-1993; Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 1985-1989; Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1982-1983; General Counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981-1982. Ambassador Bolton is also an attorney. He was an associate at the Washington office of Covington & Burling, and then a member of the firm from 1983-1985, after public service at the U.S. Agency for International Development. He currently is "of counsel" to the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. Bolton graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude from Yale College (1970), and received his J.D. from Yale Law School (1974), where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. Ambassador Bolton is married to Gretchen Smith Bolton. They have one daughter, Jennifer Sarah, an investment banker in New York.

ARTICLES BY: John Bolton

October 4, 2012 12:32 pm

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The Ayatollahs’ Agency

With the world's attention diverted yet again, this time by the collapse of the myth of the Arab Spring as a democratic awakening, Iran's nuclear...

September 27, 2012 4:00 pm

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The U.S. Should Throw its Support Behind an Israeli Strike

Russia, China, Venezuela, Iraq, and others delight in helping Tehran evade today's patchwork of haphazardly applied, often ignored, and poorly enforced measures. Iran has suffered...

September 25, 2012 12:21 pm

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No Surprise: America Under Attack Again in the Mideast

The September 11 assassination of four American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, and the assault on Washington's embassy in Cairo was a complete surprise to the...

August 23, 2012 2:12 pm

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Will Obama Stop Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions?

The Western world's media are again filled with speculation, leaks, purported leaks and flat-out disinformation about whether and when Israel will use military...

August 15, 2012 12:30 pm

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Losing Ground in the Middle East

While we have focused on the Olympics and presidential politics, strategic security for America and its key Middle East allies has deteriorated significantly....

July 24, 2012 1:49 pm

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America and its Allies Must Prepare to Secure Syria’s WMD’s

The killings of Syria's Defense Minister and other key officials last week by opposition forces threaten to shatter Bashir al-Assad's regime.  Without a...

July 22, 2012 10:22 am

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A Sneaky Way to Control Guns: A UN Treaty Could Curtail Our Rights

Gun-control advocates and the Obama administration are rushing to complete negotiations in New York on a proposed international agreement called the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. They...

July 20, 2012 2:49 am

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What America Gets for Its U.N. Blank Check

Leave it to a small, little-known agency to prove just how out of control the United Nations can get. We learned last month that the World...

July 11, 2012 12:46 am

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The Negotiation Delusion: Iran Talks Fail Again

The ongoing failure of talks concerning Iran's nuclear weapons program, most recently in Istanbul on July 3, is no surprise. This latest negotiation...

June 22, 2012 4:23 pm

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The Eurozone and Us

For America, as for Europe, the consequences of Sunday's elections in Greece and France are likely to be profound. Voters in the two...

June 13, 2012 12:30 pm

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Security Leaks, Law and Politics

Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed two U.S. attorneys to investigate leaks of sensitive national security information. In so doing, he implicitly rejected calls by...

June 11, 2012 12:35 pm

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What to Do About Syria

As hostilities in Syria roll on unabated, the civilian casualties rise because of combat operations in urban areas and execution-style killings. In response, calls for...

June 5, 2012 2:13 pm

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Baghdad Dreaming

Having apparently learned nothing from 10 years of futile negotiations with Iran, President Obama seemed perilously close late last month to yet another deal purportedly...

May 24, 2012 1:41 pm

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A New Era of Fiscal Responsibility: The Free Lunch is Finished

When the G8 major economies convened at Camp David last weekend, the continuing crisis of the euro, common currency of 17 European Union (EU) members, dominated the economic...