Gideon Rose was recently named Editor of Foreign Affairs, where he served as Managing Editor for the past decade.  From 1995 to 2000, he was Olin Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, serving as Chairman of the Council’s Roundtable on Terrorism and Director of numerous Council Study Groups.  In 1994-95, he was on the staff of the National Security Council, where he served as Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs.  In addition, he has been a staff member at the journals The National Interest and The Public Interest.  After studying classics at Yale, he received a Ph.D. in government from Harvard and has taught American foreign policy at Princeton and Columbia.  His previous publications, edited with James F. Hoge, Jr., include Understanding the War on Terror, America and the World: Debating the New Shape of International Politics, and How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War.  He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"A chilling yet fascinating account of what can go wrong in the Situation Room.” —The New York Times Book Review

Gideon Rose was recently named Editor of Foreign Affairs, where he served as Managing Editor for the past decade.  From 1995 to 2000, he was Olin Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, serving as Chairman of the Council’s Roundtable on Terrorism and Director of numerous Council Study Groups.  In 1994-95, he was on the staff of the National Security Council, where he served as Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs.  In addition, he has been a staff member at the journals The National Interest and The Public Interest.  After studying classics at Yale, he received a Ph.D. in government from Harvard and has taught American foreign policy at Princeton and Columbia.  His previous publications, edited with James F. Hoge, Jr., include Understanding the War on Terror, America and the World: Debating the New Shape of International Politics, and How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War.  He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"A chilling yet fascinating account of what can go wrong in the Situation Room.” —The New York Times Book Review

Gideon Rose was recently named Editor of Foreign Affairs, where he served as Managing Editor for the past decade.  From 1995 to 2000, he was Olin Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, serving as Chairman of the Council’s Roundtable on Terrorism and Director of numerous Council Study Groups.  In 1994-95, he was on the staff of the National Security Council, where he served as Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs.  In addition, he has been a staff member at the journals The National Interest and The Public Interest.  After studying classics at Yale, he received a Ph.D. in government from Harvard and has taught American foreign policy at Princeton and Columbia.  His previous publications, edited with James F. Hoge, Jr., include Understanding the War on Terror, America and the World: Debating the New Shape of International Politics, and How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War.  He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"A chilling yet fascinating account of what can go wrong in the Situation Room.” —The New York Times Book Review