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

May 7, 2012 12:55 pm

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The Meaning of Sunday’s European Elections

Sunday's elections results in six European countries, particularly France, Greece and Germany, bode poorly for satisfactorily resolving the European Union's ongoing financial and political crisis. Moreover,...

May 1, 2012 8:17 am

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Iran and Obama’s Syria Hesitation

Despite months of negotiations by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and extensive Security Council deliberations, hostilities in Syria continue. Although overall violence is down...

April 4, 2012 11:27 am

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Israel is Not the Threat, Mr. Obama. Iran is.

The Obama administration appears to be conducting an organized campaign of public pressure to stop Israel from attacking Iran's well-developed nuclear-weapons program. So intense is...

April 2, 2012 3:58 pm

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Obama’s Timidity Risks the World’s Security

Barack Obama's Stakhanovite efforts to transform America's economy and society into something akin to European-style social democracy are undergoing considerable analysis and debate,...

March 29, 2012 11:11 am

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Obama, Moscow and Romney

In his 2011 State of the Union Address, with six members of the Supreme Court present, President Obama famously attacked the Court's Citizen's...

March 28, 2012 11:28 am

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Iran Must Be Stopped

Recent advances in Iran's nuclear weapons  program show that  events  are  moving extraordinarily swiftly, as Tehran nears  the end  of its decades-long quest  to possess ...

March 22, 2012 10:52 am

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P.T. Barnum and the Seoul Nuclear Talks

Heads of state and foreign ministers from 50-plus countries will gather next week in Seoul, South Korea, to discuss the threat of nuclear terrorism,...

March 9, 2012 2:50 pm

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Obama’s Sweet Deal for North Korea

In the transition from an old dictator to a new one, some observers were losing faith in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, believing it...

February 23, 2012 10:54 am

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Iran’s Relentless Nuclear Quest

The Valentine's Day announcement of new scientific and technological achievements in Iran's nuclear program demonstrates the continued broadening and deepening of its capacities...

February 14, 2012 12:01 am

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Amateur Hour at the U.N.

Last week, Russia and China obstructed the Obama administration's Syria policy by vetoing an anti-Assad Security Council resolution backed by the Arab League,...

February 10, 2012 1:42 pm

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How Obama Shift Helps Unstable Regimes Get Nuclear Weapons

By John Bolton and Edward J. Markey For over half a century, stopping the spread of nuclear weapons has been a fundamental American foreign-policy objective. The...

January 26, 2012 4:52 pm

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Don’t Let Iran Benefit From EU Financial Crisis

The European financial crisis and the ineffective effort to stop Iran's nuclear-weapons program are crashing into each other. As the European Union adopts new restrictions...

January 22, 2012 2:28 pm

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Romney: The Conservative Who Can Beat Obama

With America's future at stake in November, I decided to support Mitt Romney for three reasons: his Reaganaut philosophy, executive experience and general-election...

January 19, 2012 10:53 am

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On Iran, Sanctions Are Not the Answer

America is in a race to stop Iran from making the world's most dangerous weapons, and we are losing. OUR VIEW: Don't miscalculate pre-emptive strike Sadly, we...