On 4 May 2004 Dr Philip Gordon, Director of the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe, gave a talk on "Allies at war: America, Europe and the crisis over Iraq."
Dr Philip Gordon is a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and Director of the Brookings Centre on the United States and Europe. Prior to coming to Brookings he was Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, where he was responsible for a variety of issues including NATO, Western Europe, Turkey, Cyprus and the OSCE. From 1994-98 he was Senior Fellow for U.S. Strategic Studies and Editor of Survival at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He has previously held teaching and research posts at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC; INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France; and the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn.
Dr Gordon has a Ph.D. and M.A. and in European Studies and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) and a B.A. in French and Philosophy from Ohio University. He is a regular commentator in international affairs and U.S. foreign policy for major television and radio networks and a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of major newspapers such as the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times and Le Monde.
Recent publications include Allies at War: America, Europe and the Crisis Over Iraq (McGraw-Hill, 2004); Iraq: The Transatlantic Debate, EU Institute for Security Studies Occasional Paper no. 39 (December 2002); The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (Brookings Institution Press, 2001); and he was co-author and editor of Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Diplomacy and Nuclear Weapons Since 1945, (Oxford University Press, 1999).
