Walter Mead

Senior Fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations

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Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations; contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times and senior contributing editor at Worth magazine; author of Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World and, most recently, Power, Terror, Peace and War: America's Grand Strategy

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