Bruce Riedel

Bruce Riedel ( born 1953 in Queens, New York City ) is a U.S. expert on the Middle and Far East. He was an American member of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA), diplomat and advisor to the U.S. government.

He studied at Brown University and graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) from. He then studied diplomatic history at Harvard University and was awarded the Master of Arts in 1977.

From 1977 to 1990 he worked at the CIA for various tasks. As Deputy Director, he was employed from 1990 to 1991 in the task force for the Persian Gulf in the CIA. As Director of affairs in the Persian Gulf and South Asia, he was from 1991 to 1993 in the National Security Council ( NSC) operates.

In the National Intelligence Council, he was employed as a clerk for Near Eastern Affairs and South Asia from 1993 to 1995. Then he moved to the Department of Defense and served as deputy assistant to the minister William Perry and William Cohen for Near Eastern Affairs and South Asia from 1995 to 1997.

In the NSC, he took over from 1997 duties as advisor to the U.S. President and Senior Director for Near Eastern Affairs and South Asia by the year 2001., He sat This function continued until 2002, but as a senior director for Near Eastern Affairs and Northern Africa.

After leaving the government job, he moved in 2002 to the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, and remained there until 2003. Between 2003 and 2006 he took to NATO in Brussels, a special consultant true. In 2006 he retired from the CIA and also went back to the Brookings Institution in the United States.

Riedel worked for three presidents of the United States as an expert in the Middle East and South Asia, where he worked on special assignments for issues concerning Pakistan and India. Also problems of the Arab- Israeli area belonged to his area of ​​responsibility. He is one of the people who took part in the conferences at Wye River and Camp David on the Israeli- Palestinian issues.

It also applies to issues of terrorism and fight it as an expert.

Awards

Writings

  • U.S. Policy in the Gulf: Five Years of Dual Containment, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, in: Policy Watch, no. 315, May 8, 1998, p 2
  • Camp David: two years later, July 15, 2002 - Edition 26 with a fifth perspective
  • Afghanistan: The Taliban Resurgent and NATO on 28 November 2006
  • Remarks focused on U.S. policy toward Iraq, Iran and Libya - April 26, 1999
  • American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit at Blair House, Policy Paper Series 2002, Philadelphia, PA: Center for the Advanced Study of India, May 2002 ( PDF file, 247 kB)
  • 2008: ". The Search for Al Qaeda Its Leadership, Ideology and Future," Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC
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