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Institutional
Affiliations
Freedom House: Member, Board of Trustees (2)
World Affairs Council: Vice President and Member, Board of Directors (2)
Project for the New American Century (PNAC): Signed various advocacy letters (4)
Nixon Center: Director of National Security Programs (1995-2001) (1)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): Fellow (1977-1983) (2)
Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute: Former fellow (1, 2)
National Review: Senior Editor (1991-1999) (1)
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (current) (1)
National Security Council and White House: Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and NSC Counselor (1987-1990) (2)
White House: Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1986-87) (2)
Department of State: Director, Policy Planning Staff for Secretary of State George Schultz (1984-86) (2)
Department of State: Special Assistant to Henry Kissinger (1972-77) (2)
National Security Council: Staff (1969 -1977) (2)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Kissinger Associates, Inc.: Former director of research (2)
Education
Harvard Law School: J.D. (1)
Oxford University: B.A., M.A. (1)
Harvard College: A.B., summa cum laude (1)
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Highlights
& Quotes
Peter Rodman, the assistant secretary of defense for international security,
is a Kissinger protégé who
has served in a number of Republican administrations and is a prominent figure
in conservative media and think-tank worlds. Before joining the Bush administration
in 2001, Rodman was a senior editor at the National Review (1991-1999),
the director of national security studies at the Nixon Center, and a founding
signatory of the Project
for the New American Century (PNAC).
Rodman began his career in government service in 1969, when he worked as
an assistant to Kissinger in the National Security Council, a position he held
until 1977. In 1984, he joined the Reagan administration State Department,
where he was director for policy planning until 1986. He later served as deputy
assistant for national security affairs for both Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Rodman has published a number of books,
essays, and articles covering national security, strategic affairs, and Cold
War history. He is the author of More Precious than Peace—a history
of the Cold War in the Third World—and of a series of monographs on strategic
issues published by the Nixon Center. In More Precious than Peace, Rodman
recalled that when he was serving in the State Department under Secretary George
Shultz, “the Heritage
Foundation unleashed a full-scale attack on Shultz in the fall of 1985,
accusing him of betraying Reagan’s policies.” He also contributed
a chapter on Russia for Present Dangers, a 2000 PNAC volume that was
edited by William
Kristol and Robert
Kagan.
In a 1999 essay for Freedom House titled Multilateralism and Its Discontents, Rodman
argued that despite the benefits of a multilateral approach to global affairs,
in the future the United States “will be forced more and more to choose
between its convictions on what is essential to spare the Middle East from
weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein, on the one hand,
and deference to the more assertive resistance of other major powers that either
do not share the U.S. alarm or are driven by other motives. Iraq may turn out
to be multilateralism’s last hurrah.”
odman concluded that “the key to multilateralism is not what one thinks
of the United Nations but what one thinks of the United States. Those who believe
the United States guilty of too many sins in the past—and these include
some Americans—will be eager to see restraints on American unilateral action.
Those who believe that global freedom and peace and the cause of human rights
have more often than not been advanced if not sustained by the United States,
acting out of some combination of its own self-interest and a general interest,
will find multilateralism a potential source of paralysis.”
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