Aaron Friedberg
Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Princeton University
Aaron Friedberg served from 2003 to 2005 in the office of the Vice President as deputy assistant for national-security affairs and director of policy planning.
A Harvard Ph.D, Friedberg teaches politics and international affairs at Princeton. He first joined the Princeton faculty in 1987 and was appointed professor of politics and international affairs in 1999. He has served as Director of Princeton's Research Program in International Security at the Woodrow Wilson School as well as Acting Director of the Center of International Studies at Princeton. Friedberg is a former fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs.
In September 2001 Friedberg began a nine-month residential appointment as the first Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress. During his tenure he researched "the rise of Asia and its implications for America." Apart from many articles for the magazine, Commentary Friedberg has written several books on foreign relations: In the Shadow of the Garrison State; Strategic Asia 2001-02: Power and Purpose; The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905.
He was one of the signers of the Project for the New American Century documents Statement of Principles (June 3, 1997) and a letter on terrorism submitted to President George W. Bush (September 20, 2001)..