eric edelman

Outgoing Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman says that counter-proliferation is “becoming a bipartisan consensus,” with a special urgency on countries like Iran, and that vigorous negotiations are necessary to stop emerging nuclear capabilities. He reiterates that Iran is on the rise in the Middle East — how’d that happen? — and rejects the [...]

Former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, a Democratic national-security eminence certain to have the new administration’s ear, kicks off a panel on counter-nuclear proliferation that includes possible incoming State Dept. official Wendy Sherman.
Perry’s part of an effort, once considered taboo, where former State and Pentagon chiefs “pal around with nuclear abolitionists,” as he joshes. Without [...]

I’m in one of the two massive ballrooms of the Washington Convention Center, where in a few minutes, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is going to present a tour of the foreign-policy horizon. That’ll kick off a day-long event sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace called “Passing The Baton,” outlining the national-security and foreign-policy [...]