Meghan O'Sullivan

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Meghan L. O'Sullivan (born September 13, 1969)^[1], a political appointee in the administration of George W. Bush. O'Sullivan currently serves as the Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Contents 1 Personal 2 Career 3 Published works 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Personal

O'Sullivan grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts.

She received her bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1991. O'Sullivan later received her master's degree and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

[edit] Career

O'Sullivan was an aide to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and a fellow at the Brookings Institution under Richard N. Haass.

O'Sullivan has also served in the Office of Policy Planning at the State Department, where she assisted Colin Powell in developing the smart sanctions policy proposal; as an assistant to Paul Bremer in the Coalition Provisional Authority subsequent to the 2003 invasion of Iraq; and as Senior Director for Iraq at the National Security Council.

Her resignation was announced April 2, 2007, to take effect "later this spring".[1]

[edit] Published works

• Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism, Brookings Institution Press (2003), ISBN 0-8157-0601-4.

• Honey and Vinegar: Incentives, Sanctions, and Foreign Policy, edited with Richard N. Haass, Brookings Institution Press (2000), ISBN 0-8157-3355-0. [edit] By Meghan L. O'Sullivan

• Sanctioning 'Rogue' States: A Strategy in Decline?, Harvard International Review, Summer 2000.

• "Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies" with Richard N. Haass, Survival, 42:2 (Summer 2000), The International Institute for Strategic Studies.

• "Iraq: Time for a Modified Approach", Brookings Institution (IraqWatch), February 2001.

• "Sanctions and U.S. Foreign Policy", with Raymond Tanter, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 13, 2001.

• "The Response to Terrorism: America Mobilizes", Brookings Institution Forum, September 21, 2002. Moderator: James B. Steinberg; Scholars: Thomas E. Mann, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Meghan L. O'Sullivan.

• "The Politics of Dismantling Containment", The Washington Quarterly 27:1 (Winter 2001), pp. 67-76. Copyright 2000 by The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[edit] External links

• White House Bio of Meghan O'Sullivan
• Meghan L. O'Sullivan at SourceWatch
• A bibliography of Meghan L. O'Sullivan works at unjobs.org
• The Washingtonian's profile of O'Sullivan in their article "The List of Powerful Women to Watch," by Kim Forrest, June, 2006
• Wonkette's article on O'Sullivan, June 12, 2006

[edit] References