Director for Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State
Mitchell Reiss is president of Washington College. Previously, he was the diplomat-in-residence at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia where he held a number of leadership positions including vice provost for international affairs, dean and director of the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies; he also holds appointments in the School of Law and the Government Department and is a senior associate of the CSIS International Security Program.
Reiss was director of the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, where he provided Secretary Colin L. Powell with independent strategic advice and policy recommendations from 2003-2005. In 2003, he was asked to serve concurrently as the President's special envoy for the Northern Ireland Peace Process with the rank of Ambassador; in 2005 Secretary Condoleezza Rice asked Reiss to continue in this position, which he did until February 2007. He has also served as the special assistant to the national security adviser at the White House and consultant to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Congressional Research Service, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Prior to coming to William & Mary in 1999, Reiss helped manage the start-up and operations of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), a multinational organization designed to deliver $6 billion of energy (500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil/year and two 1,000 MW nuclear power stations) to North Korea. He led KEDO's negotiations with the North Koreans and served as its first General Counsel.
Reiss has a law degree from Columbia Law School, a D.Phil. from Oxford University, a Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and a B.A. from Williams College. He has written two books on international security (Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities and Without the Bomb: The Politics of Nuclear Nonproliferation), and co-edited and authored Nuclear Proliferation after the Cold War and edited The Nuclear Tipping-Point. He has contributed to eighteen other books, and published over 80 articles and reviews. He is currently conducting research on how states negotiate with rogue regimes and terrorist groups. Reiss has been a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and worked as an attorney at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.
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Election 2008: The Foreign Policy Agenda What are the key foreign policy issues that loom ahead for the upcoming presidential race? Fundamental questions for America's role in the world will be up for grabs. Will the American people retreat into isolationism, protectionism and nativism? Or will we continue to be engaged in the world? How will we balance the tension between going it alone and working with friends and allies? After Iraq, will we be more likely to use diplomacy? Does this mean that military force, especially preemptive strikes, is now off the table? Specifically, presidential candidates, and the American people, will be asking the following questions: - Are we winning or losing the global war on terror? - What happens next in Iraq? Do we stay or do we go? And will the Middle East descend into greater chaos in any case? - How can we counter Iran's and North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions? - As China rises, will we see it as a strategic partner or strategic competitor? - Will President Bush's vision of democracy promotion democracy lead to greater instability around the world as anti-American radicals are elected to power? Most fundamentally, how will Americans respond to the question: ?Is America better off now -- more safe, more secure, more prosperous -- than it was seven years ago?? How Republican and Democratic presidential candidates shape this answer to their advantage will determine the next President of the United States. The World in 2030 What type of world will our children and grandchildren inherit in the next twenty years? What are the current trends--democracy, terror, demographics, energy, proliferation, development, and disease--that will shape our world over the coming decades? What countries are rising powers and which ones are losing their influence on the global stage? Will the European Union, Russia, India or China try to "balance" or "counter" American preeminence? Indeed, can America stay #1 or will the sun eventually set on the American empire, as it has on others? What does the United States need to do now to sustain its extraordinary economic, military and diplomatic position into the new century? Living in a Nuclear-Armed World North Korea already has nuclear weapons and Iran is well on its way to doing so as well. Are we fast approaching a nuclear "tipping point," where many countries will acquire nuclear weapons and others will hedge their bets by moving closer to having the bomb?
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