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Institutional
Affiliations
University
of Princeton: Professor of Politics and International Affairs
(1), (2)
Project
for the New American Century: Signed PNAC’s founding
statement of principles in 1997 and PNAC’s Sept. 20, 2001
letter to George W. Bush urging the president to target Iraq as
part of the war on terrorism (4)
National
Bureau of Asian Research, Strategic Asia Project: Research
Director (6)
University
of Princeton, Research Program in International Security:
Director (1), (5)
George
C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies: Consultant
(6)
Smithsonian
Institution’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars: Fellow, 1989-1990 (1), (5), (7), (9)
University
of Princeton, Center of International Studies: Director
(1), (6)
Norwegian
Nobel Institute: Senior Fellow, 1998 (1), (5), (7)
Harvard
University, Center for International Affairs: Fellow, 1986-1987
(1)
Government
Service
Library
of Congress, Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy
and International Relations: First Holder, 2001-2002 (1),
(2), (7)
Council
on Foreign Relations: International Affairs Fellow, 1990-1991
National
Security Council: Consultant (1), (6)
Department
of Defense, Office of Net Assessment: Consultant (1), (6)
Central
Intelligence Agency: Consultant (6)
Los
Alamos National Laboratory: Consultant (6)
Education
Harvard
University: Ph. D. (1), (5), (6)
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Highlights
& Quotes
When
Friedberg, a China scholar at Princeton University, was appointed
in May 2003 to his current policy post working under I.
Lewis Libby and Vice President Dick
Cheney, many observers saw it as a sign that the Bush administration
was going to take a harder stance toward China. It was also seen
as a victory for neoconservative ideologues both in and outside
the administration, who tend to see China primarily as a threat
to U.S. interests.
Commenting
on the appointment, John Gershman, an Asia specialist at New York
University, said: “There really haven't been top people under
Bush who knew much about China. He's the first one. ... [Friedberg]
fits clearly into the group that has been dominant in the administration
since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon. ...
He's a China-threat person without being hysterical about it. But
his appointment is a clear sign that the cooperation that has emerged
between the U.S. and China on the war on terrorism and North Korea
is entirely tactical, and that Cheney is still inclined to see China
as a strategic competitor." (4)
In
a 2000 article titled "The Struggle for Mastery in Asia,"
published in the neocon flagship Commentary, Friedberg wrote, "over
the course of the next several decades there is a good chance that
the United States will find itself engaged in an open and intense
geopolitical rivalry with the People's Republic of China. . . .
The combination of growing Chinese power, China's effort to expand
its influence, and the unwillingness of the United States to entirely
give way before it are the necessary preconditions of a 'struggle
for mastery.'" A military confrontation, he added, could gradually
develop or result from a "single catalytic event, such as a
showdown over Taiwan." (4)
Friedberg is the author of The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience
of Relative Decline, 1895-1905 (Princeton University Press, 1988);
and In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism
and Its Cold War Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 2000).
(1), (2) He also contributed a chapter on the China threat for Present
Dangers, a 2000 book edited by Project for the New American Century
co-founders William Kristol and Robert Kagan that also included
chapters by former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle and
former Central Intelligence Agency chief James Woolsey. (4)
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