Philip D. Zelikow

Philip D. Zelikow ( born September 21, 1954) is an American diplomat and author.

Education and Career

Zelikow earned a B. A. in history and politics at the University of Redlands, a JD at the University of Houston Law Center, and an MA and Ph.D. in International Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

He was Executive Director of the approximately 80 -member staff rod that created the 9/11 Commission Report, as well as director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and as Counselor of the United States Department of State, one of the highest ranking officials in the U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this role, he followed in February 2005 on Wendy Sherman; In January 2007, he was in turn succeeded by Eliot A. Cohen. He is White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia and currently is home to the American Academy in Berlin as Axel Springer Fellow. There he is working on his latest book, U.S. Foreign Policy: An Interpretive History.

Zelikow sat down in the Libyan civil war before the establishment of the international no-fly zone ( no-fly zone ) for a ban zone ( no- drive zone ) a. This was necessary in order to protect conquered by the rebels areas.

Others

Zelikow is a member of the Global Development Program Advisory Panel, Gates Foundation

Works

• Philip D. Zelikow, Condoleezza Rice: great moment of diplomacy. Propylaea Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-549-05600-1.
• Philip D. Zelikow, Condoleezza Rice: Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft. Harvard University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-674-35325-0.
• Philip D. Zelikow, Graham T. Allison: Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. 2nd Edition Longman, 1999, ISBN 0-321-01349-2.
• Philip D. Zelikow: American Military Strategy: Memos to a President ( Aspen Policy Series). W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, ISBN 0-393-97711-0.