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Cato Policy Report, March/April 1996

Cato Staff Updates

Carpenter New Cato Vice President

Ted Galen Carpenter has been named Cato's vice president for defense and foreign policy studies. Carpenter, who holds a Ph.D. in U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Texas, Austin, was previously director of foreign policy studies. Ed Crane, Cato's president, congratulated Carpenter on his promotion, saying, "Ted is both an outstanding scholar and a communicator who has been one of the few voices of reason in his field, defending authentic American interests and distinguishing them from needless interventions abroad. Ted's work is integral to Cato's approach, which emphasizes peace and security through strategic independence, the foreign policy appropriate to a constitutional republic."

Among Carpenter's current initiatives is Cato's new UN Evaluation Project, which is publishing studies on the United Nations and will sponsor a major conference on the reevaluation of America's role in the organization later this year. Carpenter is also expanding the Institute's output of research on U.S. involvement in East Asia, increasing the number of studies on U.S. trade policy, and writing with Ian Vásquez, director of Cato's Project on Global Economic Liberty, a book on the international drug war.

Carpenter has written three books and edited five, and has published more than 100 articles in scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines. A regular guest on radio and television programs, he has appeared on CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Crossfire, the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, BBC television and radio, Larry King Live, and C-SPAN.

Carpenter's latest book, The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment (Cato Institute, 1995), was recently recommended for libraries by Choice magazine, which noted, "Journalists, both present and prospective, need to study and learn from the excellent and highly recommended critical analysis in this book."

This article originally appeared in the March/April 1996 edition of Cato Policy Report.