Arnold Kanter

Arnold Lee Kanter ( born February 27, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, † April 10, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American diplomat who is the third highest post held as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States.

Life

After schooling Kanter studied at the University of Michigan and earned a Bachelor of Science there in 1966. A subsequent post-graduate studies in political science at Yale University, he finished first in 1969 with a Master of Philosophy before he acquired a 1975 Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D.) from Yale University. During his studies he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa academic connection.

In 1977, he joined the U.S. State Department and was there until 1985, initially working as well as now employees of the Defense Policy Board. He then joined the Rand Corporation think tank and was there until 1989, not only Deputy Director for International Security and defense programs, but at the same time also the program director for national security strategies. After retiring from the Rand Corporation, he remained this still connected as a Senior Fellow and was between 1989 and 1991 Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control of the National Security Council.

In October 1991, he returned to the State Department and took until January 1993 as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs the third-highest post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States. In this role he led in 1992 in New York City talks with the Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Yong -sun, as well as with the Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye - kwan North Korea.

After his retirement from government service Kanter was a consulting firm founded by former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft from 1994 until his death Partner of The Scowcroft Group. During this time, he was from 2001 to 2003 a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.

Kanter, who acted also a professor at the Ohio State University and the University of Michigan, also was responsible for numerous other foreign and security policy organizations and other institutions act as the Trilateral Commission, the Brookings Institution, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Markle Foundation.

He also was a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council, a member of the Strategy Group of the Aspen Institute, chairman of the Roundtable on National Security of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Associate of the Forum for International Policy.