Morton Abramowitz

Morton Abramowitz is a Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation, and on the boards of the International Rescue Committee, the International Crisis Group, and U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, as well as advising the National Interest quarterly journal and Foreign Policy (magazine).

A long-term diplomat, he was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and acting president of the International Crisis Group.

At the U.S. Department of State, he was U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Thailand, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, United States ambassador to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Negotiations in Vienna and political adviser to the commander of United States Pacific Command. He was also deputy assistant secretary of defense for inter-American, East Asian, and Pacific affairs.

He is coauthor (with Stephen Bosworth) of Chasing the Sun: Rethinking East Asian Policy (The Century Foundation Press, 2006) and editor of The Century Foundation Press books The United States and Turkey: Allies in Need (2003) and Turkey’s Transformation and American Policy (2000).

Public Punditry Needs a Code of Conduct Morton Abramowitz, The Century Foundation, 9/6/2007

Publications on International Affairs

The Future Of American-Turkish Relations Morton Abramowitz, The Century Foundation, 6/9/2006

Chasing the Sun: Rethinking East Asian Policy Morton Abramowitz, Stephen Bosworth, The Century Foundation, 5/1/2006

Adjusting to the New Asia Morton Abramowitz, Stephen Bosworth, Foreign Affairs, 8/1/2003

The United States and Turkey Allies in Need Morton Abramowitz, Century Foundation Press, 4/1/2003

Turkey's Transformation and American Policy Morton Abramowitz, Century Foundation Press, 2/1/2001