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Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio) is a U.S. diplomat and political scientist. He was the Deputy Secretary of State from 1993 until 2000. He has also been a friend of Bill Clinton since their days as fellow Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford, where he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English. He is currently the president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States with a population of 166,179 (2000). ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... See also: Political Science Notable political scientists Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrows Impossibility Theorem Robert Axelrod Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician... The Deputy Secretary of State of the United States is the chief assistant to the Secretary of State who is responsible for foreign affairs. ... Cite error 4; Invalid call; no input specified 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Rhodes House in Oxford The Rhodes Scholarships were created by Englishman Cecil John Rhodes and have been awarded to applicants annually since 1902 by the Oxford-based Rhodes Trust on the basis of academic qualities, as well as those of character. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchof (Khrushchev) (Russian: ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¸ÌÑ‚Ð° Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð³ÐµÌÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¥Ñ€ÑƒÑ‰Ñ‘Ð² â–¶ (helpÂ· info), April 17, 1894 â€“ September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... The Brookings Institution is one of the oldest and best known think tanks in the United States. ...

Talbott is a world federalist who wrote in a July 20, 1992 Time Magazine article, "The Birth of the Global Nation", that "The best mechanism for democracy, whether at the level of the multinational state or that of the planet as a whole, is not an all-powerful Leviathan or centralized superstate, but a federation, a union of separate states that allocate certain powers to a central government while retaining many others for themselves" [1]. This article discusses the idea of a democratic federal world government (FWG), as presented by its proponents (often called world federalists). At its core, FWG is simply an extension of the idea of democratic federation to the global level. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... Destruction of Leviathan. 1865 engraving by Gustave DorÃ©. This page is about the biblical creature; for other uses, see Leviathan (disambiguation). ...

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Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb (2004)
The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (2002)
Master of the game : Paul Nitze and the nuclear peace (1989)

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External links and further reading

"The Master of the Game," by Charles Lane. The New Republic, March 7, 1994, pp. 19-20+22-23+26+28-29.
Strobe Talbott's Brookings homepage
Khrushchev Remembers

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Strobe Talbott: Russia’s Man in Washington (5166 words)
	Talbott attributed his confirmation conversion to a 1991 trip to Israel that was sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank established by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC.
	Talbott's relationship to the president is so strong that one State Department colleague, quoted in an otherwise glowing cover profile of Talbott in the Washington Post magazine, revealed that no career diplomat would even think of opposing Talbott and his Russia-first policies, unless he was avidly seeking to join the ranks of the unemployed.
	Talbott opposed the development of the cruise missiles that were later used with success against Iraq, and urged the U.S. not to deploy Pershing II missiles in Europe-a deployment that led to the first arms control treaty eliminating an entire class of nuclear weapons, the 1987 INF treaty.

Strobe Talbott Press Release (334 words)
	Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of state and current director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, will deliver the 2002 Cyril Black Memorial Lecture, "Russia and the West under Yeltsin and Putin," on Tuesday, February 19, at 4:30 p.m., in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University.
	Talbott served in the State Department from 1993 to 2001, first as ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state on the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union.
	Talbott has also written on the significance of the events of last September 11 in The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11, which he coedited with Yale colleague Nayan Chanda and which was published this January.

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