Ivo Daalder

Ivo H. Daalder, (born 1960, The Hague, Netherlands) has been the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization since May 2009. He is a specialist in European security. He was a member of the staff of United States National Security Council (NSC) during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and was one of the foreign policy advisers to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.^[2]

Education and Academic Career

Daalder was educated at the University of Kent, Oxford University, and Georgetown University, and received his Ph.D in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was fellow at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He received a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs and an International Affairs Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations. Daalder was an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park’s School of Public Affairs, where he was also director of research at the Center for International and Security Studies. He was a Senior Fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution from 1997 to 2009, where he was a specialist in European security, transatlantic relations, and national security affairs.

National Security Council and Hart-Rudman Commission

In 1995-97, Daalder served as as a director for European Affairs on the National Security Council staff under President Bill Clinton, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward Bosnia. From 1998-2001, Daalder served as a member of the Study Group of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), a multi-year examination of U.S. national security requirements and institutions.^[3]

Permanent Representative to NATO

On March 11, 2009, President Obama nominated Daalder to become the United States Permanent Representative to NATO, a post commonly referred to as "U.S. Ambassador to NATO".^[4]

One of the issues that Ambassador Daalder has addressed is the lack of communication on security issues between NATO and the European Union. In October 2010 he wrote in the International Herald Tribune: "NATO and E.U. capabilities need to be in synch, and their operations need to be complementary. We should regularly engage in a robust and transparent exchange of views on a wide range of shared interests. Policy should support work in the field; those in harm's way shouldn't have to work around our failures in Brussels."^[5]

Books

• In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Portraits of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents they Serve—From JFK to George W. Bush, with I.M. Destler. (Simon & Schuster, 2009).
• Beyond Preemption: Force and Legitimacy in a Changing World (edited, 2007).
• The Crescent of Crisis: U.S.-European Strategy for the Greater Middle East, co-edited with Nicole Gnesotto and Phil Gordon (2006).
• America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, with James M. Lindsay (2003). Winner of 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize. Revised and updated edition published by John Wiley & Sons in 2005. Translated into Chinese, Dutch, Korean, Italian and Polish.
• Protecting the American Homeland: One Year on, with Michael O'Hanlon (editor), I. M. Destler, David L. Gunter, Robert Litan, Peter Orszag, and James Steinberg (2003).
• Protecting the American Homeland: A Preliminary Analysis, with Michael O'Hanlon (editor), I. M. Destler, David L. Gunter, Robert Litan, Peter Orszag, and James Steinberg (2002).
• Winning Ugly: NATO’s War to Save Kosovo, with Michael E. O’Hanlon (2000).
• Getting to Dayton: The Making of America’s Bosnia Policy (2000).

Newspaper articles

• “America's new global challenge”, with Anne-Marie Slaughter Boston Globe, July 24, 2008.
• “Talking to Iran Is Our Best Option”, with Philip Gordon The Washington Post, June 29, 2008.
• “The United Nations Can Save Burma”, with Paul Stares International Herald Tribune and Boston Globe, May 13, 2008.
• “NATO: A Mockery of Enlargement”, with James Goldgeier, International Herald Tribune, April 8, 2008.
• “Presidential Politics Can Help Iraq Policy”, with Philip Gordon, Boston Globe, March 29, 2008.
• “Iraq After the Surge” NRC Handelsblad, December 8, 2007.
• “A Nuclear-Free World”, with John Holum, Boston Globe, October 5, 2007.
• “Nuclear Weapons in the Age of al-Qaeda”, with Jeffrey Lewis, Financial Times, August 13, 2007.
• “The Next Intervention: Legitimacy Matters”, with Robert Kagan, The Washington Post, August 6, 2007.
• “U.S. and Europe Must Learn About Alliances”, with James Goldgeier, Financial Times, December 14, 2006.
• “Global Challenges for NATO”, with James Goldgeier, El Pais, November 27, 2006.
• “NATO: For Global Security, Expand the Alliance”, with James Goldgeier, The International Herald Tribune, October 12, 2006.
• “Five Years After 9/11 – A Balance Sheet”, NRC Handelsblad, September 6, 2006.
• “Is War With Iran Inevitable?”, NRC Handelsblad, April 21, 2006.
• “Still Time for a Good Deal With India”, with Michael Levi, Washington Post, March 10, 2006.
• “Face-to-Face: The Recent Spike of Violence in Iraq”, Washington Examiner, March 2, 2006.
• “The Limits of Rice's Diplomacy”, NRC Handelsblad, January 17, 2006.
• “We Should Strike Iran, But Not With Bombs”, with Philip Gordon, Washington Post, January 22, 2006.

Other publications

• “In the Shadow of the Oval Office: The Next National Security Adviser", with I. M. Destler, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2009, pp. 114–29.
• “The Logic of Zero", with Jan Lodal, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2008, pp. 80–95.
• “America and the Use of Force: Sources of Legitimacy,” with Robert Kagan, in Chollet, Lindberg and Shorr (eds). “Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide”, 2008.
• “Restore Trust in America's Leadership”, with James M. Lindsay, ‘’Democracy: A Journal of Ideas’’, Fall 2007.
• “Coping with Failure in Iraq”, Vrij Nederland, June 16, 2007.
• (With James M. Lindsay) “Democracies of the World, Unite: The Debate Continues,” The American Interest, Vol. II, No. 4 (March/April 2007), pp. 137–139
• “Democracies of the World, Unite”, with James M. Lindsay, The American Interest, January/February 2007.
• “Renewing the Nuclear Bargain,” with Michael H. Fuchs and Morton H. Halperin, in Halperin, Laurenti, Rundlet and Boyer (eds) ‘’Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century’’, 2007.
• “Global NATO”, with James Goldgeier, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006, pp. 105–113.

References

External links

• Ambassador Daalder's biography on home page of U.S. Mission to NATO
• Dr. Daalder bio at The Brookings Institution.
• Ivo H. Daalder Bio at John Podesta's Center for American Progress