Reminiscences of Richard K. Betts : oral history, 2007.

Biographical Note

Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University.

Scope and Contents

Background: born 1947; education: B.A., Ph.D., Harvard, 1975; career: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Staff, 1975-76; Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and Research Associate, 1976-1990; National Security Council Staff 1977; Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science, the director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, and the director of the International Security Policy Program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, 1990-present; Council on Foreign Relations (CFR): Member in 1978, relationship between academia and policy makers, prestige of CFR, articles written for Foreign Affairs, reminiscences about CFR during 1990s, views on terrorism and 9/11 attacks, future of strategic studies, future of US-China relations, views on Iraq War.

Subjects

• Betts, Richard K., 1947---Interviews.
• Brookings Institution.
• Columbia University--Faculty--Interviews.
• Council on Foreign Relations.
• Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Gavrilis, George, 1972- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)

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