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2013:

  1. Richard Haass
    Richard Haass

    with Richard Haass on Apr 29, 2013

    Duration
    25 min
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    11 comments
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  2. Discussion about Syria
    Duration
    14 min
    Comments
    7 comments
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2012:

  1. David Sanger & Richard Haass on Foreign Policy
    Duration
    60 min
    Comments
    3 comments
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  2. Update on Syria
    Duration
    25 min
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    3 comments
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2011:

  1. Afghanistan
    Afghanistan

    with Richard Haass, David Ignatius, Jim Shinn and more on Jun 22, 2011

    Duration
    32 min
    Comments
    5 comments
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2010:

  1. Update on Iraq
    Update on Iraq

    with Richard Haass on Mar 12, 2010

    Duration
    11 min
    Comments
    5 comments
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2009:

  1. Live analysis of President Obama's address on Afghanistan
    Duration
    60 min
    Comments
    1 comment
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2008:

  1. A conversation with Richard Haass and Martin Indyk
    Duration
    35 min
    Comments
    6 comments
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  2. Daily Highlights Tuesday December 2, 2008
    Duration
    5 min
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  3. Richard Haass and Martin Indyk on the role of special envoys to the middle east
    Duration
    3 min
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  4. Richard Haass on the effects of global economic crisis on foreign policy
    Duration
    3 min
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  5. Richard Haass says U.S. must promote Syria-Israel peace and negotiate directly with Iran
    Duration
    1 min
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  6. Richard Haass on the significance of the Mumbai attacks
    Duration
    1 min
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  7. Richard Haass on how to build democracy in the region
    Duration
    54 sec
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2005:

  1. A discussion about President Bush's speech on Iraq
    Duration
    42 min
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Dr. Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a position he has held since July2003. The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization,think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.

Dr. Haass is the author or editor of ten books on American foreign policy. His most recent book, The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course, was published by Public Affairs. He is also the author of one book on management: The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization.

From January 2001 to June 2003, Dr. Richard Haass was director of policy planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold the rank of ambassador, Dr. Haass also served as U.S. coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and was the lead U.S. government official in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. For his efforts, he received the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award.

Dr. Haass has extensive additional government experience. From 1989 to 1993, he was special assistant to President George H. W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991, Dr. Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to the development and articulation of U.S. policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Previously, he served in the Departments of State (1981-85) and Defense (1979-80) and was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.

Dr. Haass also was vice president and director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz visiting professor of international studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Haass holds a BA from Oberlin College and the Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University. He has received honorary doctorates from Hamilton College, Franklin & Marshall College, and Georgetown University.

Dr. Richard Haass was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.