Strobe Talbott

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Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio) is a U.S. diplomat and political scientist. He was the Deputy Secretary of State from 1993 until 2001. He has also been a friend of Bill Clinton since their days as fellow Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford, where he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English. After leaving government, he was for a short period Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He is currently the president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Yale University in 1968.

Talbott is a world federalist who wrote in a July 20, 1992 Time magazine article, "The Birth of the Global Nation", that "The best mechanism for democracy, whether at the level of the multinational state or that of the planet as a whole, is not an all-powerful Leviathan or centralized superstate, but a federation, a union of separate states that allocate certain powers to a central government while retaining many others for themselves" [1].

Preceded by Clifton R. Wharton Jr.

United States Deputy Secretary of State 1993–2001

Succeeded by Richard Armitage

[edit] Partial bibliography

• Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb (2004)
• The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (2002)
• Master of the game : Paul Nitze and the nuclear peace (1989)

[edit] External links and further reading

• "The Master of the Game," by Charles Lane. The New Republic, March 7, 1994, pp. 19-20+22-23+26+28-29.
• Strobe Talbott's Brookings homepage