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

January 10, 2012 12:01 am

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Iran’s Ayatollahs Are Again Testing U.S. Resolve

Iran's threats to close the vital Strait of Hormuz, its naval exercises in nearby waters, and the ominous increase in tensions over its...

January 3, 2012 10:27 am

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Whoever Wins, Obama Faces a Real Challenge

The Republican race may be still be a muddle but disenchantment with the President is plain At last, after pundits, pollsters and politicians have filled the...

December 25, 2011 5:05 pm

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Save the Euro, End the Atlantic Alliance

After the European Union's latest crisis summit last week, international financial markets reacted cautiously. And well they should, since this umpteenth effort to...

December 17, 2011 8:12 pm

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Be Warned, America’s Withdrawal From Iraq Heralds a World of Instability

America's complete withdrawal of its troops from Iraq is a tragic mistake. It jeopardises the gains made by President Bush's (and Tony Blair's)...

December 6, 2011 8:56 am

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Justice for Libya – It Requires Blocking the World Court’s Overreach

Libya's interim government made a correct, startlingly independent judgment just before Thanksgiving, announcing that Libya, not the International Criminal Court (ICC), would try Saif al-Islam...

November 29, 2011 2:49 pm

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EU’S Democratic Deficit

The crisis of the euro, the common currency of 17 European Union members, continues unabated. Because of massive, sustained budget deficits by several eurozone countries,...

November 18, 2011 12:35 am

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Obama’s Syrian Failure

The Arab League's decision to suspend Syria is a serious blow to President Bashar al-Assad's highly unpopular regime, and has led many to believe that...

November 7, 2011 8:02 pm

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The UNESCO Follies Are Back

The Palestinian Authority succeeded last Monday in becoming a member state in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The vote was 107...

October 28, 2011 2:05 pm

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Let Europeans Handle their Own Crisis

'Iatrogenesis," derived from a Greek word, describes how a patient's condition can worsen because of complications from prior medical treatment. And iatrogenesis is precisely what...

October 4, 2011 2:28 pm

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Anwar Al-Awlaki and the US’s Long War On Al-Qaida

The well-deserved death of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen continues a string of recent battlefield losses for al-Qaida, the most notable being Osama bin Laden at...

September 21, 2011 2:46 pm

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Palestinian U.N. Statehood Bid: More Broadway Theater than a Serious Middle East Peace Effort

The Palestinian Authority ("P.A.") is proceeding full steam ahead to create "facts on the ground" in the Middle East, by working the Manhattan ...

September 12, 2011 2:16 pm

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Learning From 9/11

Ten years after Sept. 11, 2001, Americans understandably ask, "Are we safer today than a decade ago?" Unfortunately, there is no mathematical formula to answer that...

September 8, 2011 5:35 pm

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The Pentagon’s On Fire: Amb. John Bolton Remembers 9/11

I arrived at the State Department early on September 11, my bags packed to fly to London that afternoon. I was to meet there...

September 6, 2011 9:19 pm

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The Innocents Abroad

Barack Obama's flawed worldview and the incoherent foreign policy flowing from it have now disintegrated. Within the past few months, his media acolytes notwithstanding, the...