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Tod Lindberg is a senior fellow at 华体会 specializing in national security issues and the role of US leadership. He writes widely on US foreign policy and national security, as well as on American politics and philosophical topics.

Mr. Lindberg is the author of , a philosophical investigation of changing ideas about heroism and its connection to political order and change, and , a study of Jesus鈥檚 Gospel teaching about worldly affairs. He is co-author with Lee Feinstein of Means to an End: US Interest in the International Criminal Court . He is the editor of Beyond Paradise and Power: Europe, America and the Future of a Troubled Partnership and co-editor with Derek Chollet and David Shorr of Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide .

Mr. Lindberg's main policy focus in recent years has been on improving US government policies and processes as well as international cooperation for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities. He served as lead of the expert group on international norms and institutions of the 2008 Genocide Prevention Task Force convened by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and William Cohen. He also served as coordinator for the task group on Preventing and Responding to Genocide and Major Human Rights Abuses for the United States Institute of Peace鈥檚 2005 Task Force on the United Nations (the Gingrich-Mitchell task force). He is a member of the Experts Committee on Preventing Mass Violence, whose final report, A Necessary Good: US Leadership on Preventing Mass Atrocities, was published in December 2016. With his long-time collaborator Lee A. Feinstein, he is author of Allies Against Atrocities: The Imperative for Transatlantic Cooperation to Prevent and Stop Mass Killings, a major report for the Holocaust Museum whose principal recommendations the American Bar Association endorsed without dissent at its February 2017 meeting; he has been named co-chair (with Raymond Brown) of the ABA鈥檚 new Atrocity Prevention and Response Project. He is also a member of its Working Group on Crimes Against Humanity. In 2017, he joined the Holocaust Museum鈥檚 Committee on Conscience, the oversight body for the Museum鈥檚 Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide.

Mr. Lindberg has written for scholarly and  popular publications from Telos and the Review of Metaphysics to Foreign Affairs and Commentary to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He is adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University鈥檚 Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he teaches a graduate seminar on ethics and decision-making in international politics.

From 1999 until 2013, he was editor of the acclaimed bimonthly Policy Review. From 2001 to 2017, he was a research fellow at Stanford鈥檚 Hoover Institution. He established Hoover鈥檚 Washington, D.C. office in 2001. Previously, he served in senior editorial positions at the Washington Times and was the founding executive editor of the National Interest and an editor at the Public Interest.

He has participated in numerous policy study groups, most recently a RAND study commissioned by the Defense Department鈥檚 Office of Net Assessment on the future of global order, for which he drafted a working paper on 鈥淕lobal Order and Liberal Overreach.鈥� He contributed a chapter on victims鈥� rights and the International Criminal Court to Mark Lagon and Anthony Arend, editors, Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions (Georgetown University Press) and a chapter on 鈥淲hat is the 鈥業nternational Community鈥�?鈥� to Chester A. Crocker, Fenn Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, editors, Managing Conflict in a World Adrift (U.S. Institute of Peace). In modified form, it also appeared as a Council on Foreign Relations Working Paper, 鈥淢aking Sense of the 鈥業nternational Community.鈥欌€� He was principal author of a working paper of the German Marshall Fund of the United States on 鈥淣ext-Step Pressure Points and Democracy Promotion.鈥� He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Princeton Project on National Security and co-chair of its Working Group on Anti-Americanism. He contributed the lead chapter, 鈥淭he Case Against the Case Against Europe,鈥� in Simon Serfaty, editor, Visions of the Atlantic Alliance: The United States, the European Union, and NATO (Center for Strategic and International Studies). His article co-authored with Derek Chollet, 鈥淎 Moral Core for US Foreign Policy,鈥� has been anthologized in G. John Ikenberry, editor, American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays (Wadsworth/Cengage Learning). He has spoken at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Virginia, Indiana, and Texas among other colleges and universities.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Advisory Council of the Stanley Foundation, the Advisory Board of the Chicago Council Survey, and the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group. He served two terms as an appointee of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the US National Commission for UNESCO. He was an advisor on national security to John McCain鈥檚 2008 presidential campaign.

He studied political philosophy and literature at the University of Chicago with Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow, among others. Commentary published his long poem, 鈥淭he Apology of Patroclus,鈥� a dramatic monologue, in its October 2016 edition. He and his wife Tina live in Washington, DC They have two grown daughters.