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

June 6, 2011 10:58 am

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How to Block the Palestine Statehood Ploy

Now that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his recent sparring partner Barack Obama are back in their corners, the next Arab-Israeli political flash point...

May 26, 2011 5:16 pm

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National Security Must Not Be an Afterthought In Upcoming Election

In the wake of Osama bin Laden's well-deserved demise, many politicians and commentators have all but erased national security as an issue in the 2012...

May 25, 2011 3:58 pm

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3 Things for Obama’s Opponents to Do Now That Netayahu Has Created a New Israeli-Palestinian Dynamic

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's unambiguous rejection of Barack Obama's latest fantasy about the Middle East has potentially created a significant new political dynamic in...

May 12, 2011 1:10 am

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Managing Pakistan After bin Laden

Duplicity has been a hallmark of Pakistan's approach to the U.S. for years. Beginning in the 1970s, Islamabad denied it was pursuing nuclear weapons, even...

May 4, 2011 1:25 pm

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Israel’s Increasing Vulnerability

Although Osama bin Laden's well-deserved death has demonstrated America's resolve to vindicate our national security, the world is still far from safe. In the Middle...

April 29, 2011 11:44 am

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Obama Faces Critical Decision on Afghan Troop Withdrawal

President Obama must soon make a critical decision: how many and what type of U.S. forces to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan this summer. The July...

April 21, 2011 11:49 pm

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Obama’s Quagmire

Opponents of the Vietnam War -- that seemingly endless, inconclusive, increasingly unpopular and ever-more-deadly and costly conflict -- called it a "quagmire." They said it...

April 15, 2011 3:47 pm

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Iranian Winter Could Chill the Arab Spring

Since the "Arab Spring" began four months ago in Tunisia, U.S. media have focused constantly and generally optimistically on the turmoil in the Middle East....

April 1, 2011 5:37 pm

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Irresponsible

President Obama's use of military force in Libya has come under intense criticism across the American political spectrum. There is widespread disagreement over what U.S....

March 23, 2011 11:13 am

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4 Mistakes We Cannot Make Again When We Sanction a Military Intervention

After nearly a month of signaling disinterest in or outright opposition to imposing a no-fly zone against Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, President Barrack Obama did...

March 14, 2011 1:29 pm

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Libya Needs Action Now

Momentum in Libya's civil war has recently shifted to Moammar Gadhafi, although the final outcome remains uncertain. Nonetheless, President Obama's indecisiveness has unquestionably limited American...

March 8, 2011 7:35 pm

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While the White House Slept

As Libya's bloody conflict rages on, important lessons for U.S. foreign policy are emerging from the past month's Middle East turmoil. Starting with Tunisia, the...

March 1, 2011 1:04 pm

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A United Nations Court For Gaddafi?

President Obama has trumpeted Saturday's U.N. Security Council decision to refer Moammar Gadhafi to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecution. Although Gadhafi deserves punishment,...

February 24, 2011 1:06 pm

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How to Make Egypt Safe for Democracy

Hosni Mubarak's resignation as president of Egypt, after thirty years of authoritarian rule, is a major seismic event in the unstable Middle East. Although not...