Dr Adam Garfinkle has joined RSIS as Distinguished Visiting Fellow from 29 July 2019 to 31 December 2020.

Dr Garfinkle is the founding editor of The American Interest, a bimonthly public policy magazine. He is a Senior Fellow and serves on the Board of Advisors  at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has taught American foreign policy in universities between 1980 to 1993,  and was a staff member at high levels of the US government, where he was speechwriter for both of President George W. Bush’s Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. He holds a Ph.D in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, United States. His research interests include US Foreign Policy; National Security and Middle East Studies.

Commentaries

• New US Anti-Corruption Law: What It Means for S.E. Asia

  06 January, 2021

• US Presidential Election 2020 - Polling the Politicians: Pitfalls and Perils

  20 October, 2020

• US Presidential Election 2020 - An Election Doomed to Cause Harm?

  14 September, 2020

• The ‘George Floyd’ Unrest: Its Strategic Implications

  08 June, 2020

• Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts - New ‘Global Dark Age’: Has Everything Changed?

  03 June, 2020

• Global Health Security - COVID-19 Pandemic: What It Means for US National Security

  30 March, 2020

• Trump Impeachment Aftermath: Implications for Global Politics and Security

  17 February, 2020

• The Gallagher Pardon: Potential Fallout on SOFA

  17 December, 2019

• Bolton Out, O’Brien In: Will It Matter?

  23 September, 2019

• The Problem with Trump’s Foreign Policy

  12 September, 2019

Op-Eds

• “Misunderstanding Singapore”, The Bulwark, 8 June 2020