Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith
SENIOR DIPLOMATIC FELLOW
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Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith is the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where his work focuses on Iraq, the greater Middle East, and conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, specifically in the Balkans, Indonesia, Iraq, India/Pakistan, and Southeast Asia.
Prior to joining the Center, Galbraith was a professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College. He has held senior positions in the United States government and with the United Nations. From 1979 to 1993, Galbraith was a senior advisor on Near East and South Asia and international organizations to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 1993 to 1998, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Croatia where he was actively involved in the Croatia and Bosnia peace processes. In 1995, he helped mediate the Erdut Agreement that ended the war in Croatia by providing for peaceful reintegration of Serb-held Eastern Slavonia into Croatia. From 2000 to 2001, Galbraith was Director for Political, Constitutional, and Electoral Affairs at the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). He also served as a Cabinet Member for Political Affairs and the Timor Sea in the First Transitional Government of East Timor.
Galbraith has authored numerous books, including, most recently, The End of Iraq (2006). He is the author of published Foreign Relations Committee reports on ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Iran-Iraq War, the Iraqi Kurds, nuclear proliferation in South Asia, and the Cambodian famine.
Galbraith holds an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.A. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University.
RECENT ARTICLES BY GALBRAITH
Nov 26, 2008 Galbraith: U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement Is 'Stunning and Humiliating' for Bush
Peter Galbraith, a top Iraq expert and former ambassador to Croatia, issued a statement today on the status of forces agreement recently signed by the United States and Iraq.
Nov 14, 2008 NPR Interview: Galbraith Backs Ethnically Divided Iraq
Ambassador Peter Galbraith, senior diplomatic fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, talked about Iraq on NPR's All Things Considered on November 12.
Sep 29, 2008 Is This a 'Victory'?
We hear again and again from Washington that we have turned a corner in Iraq and are on the path to victory. In his latest essay for the New York Review of Books, Ambassador Peter Galbraith, Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, disputes the notion that the current state of affairs in Iraq can be called a success - or a path to victory.
Jan 3, 2008 U.S. Needs to Get Tough with Pakistan
Pakistan's record under Musharraf is one of broken promises while tolerating acts harmful to U.S. interests. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, weeks after a U.S.-brokered deal for her return to Pakistan, underscores the bankruptcy of the current approach.
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