Morton H Halperin was born on June 13,1938 and is a longtime expert on US foreign policy, arms control, civil liberties, and the workings of bureaucracies.
33 Facts About Morton Halperin
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Morton Halperin was a senior advisor to the Open Society Foundations, which was founded by George Soros.
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Morton Halperin served in the Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, and Obama administrations.
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Morton Halperin has taught at Harvard University and as a visitor at other universities including Columbia, George Washington University, and Yale.
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Morton Halperin has served in a number of roles with think tanks, including the Center for American Progress, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Twentieth Century Fund.
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Morton Halperin graduated from Lafayette High School in Brooklyn and received his BA in political science from Columbia University in 1958.
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Morton Halperin is the brother of Daniel Halperin, the Stanley S Surrey Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School.
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Morton Halperin began his career in academia as a research associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs.
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Morton Halperin was an instructor in government at Harvard and an assistant professor of government.
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From 1966 to 1967, Morton Halperin served as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
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Morton Halperin joined the National Security Council in 1969 as the director of policy planning.
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Morton Halperin ended up on Nixon's Enemies List of 20 people with whom the White House was unhappy with because they disagreed in some way with the administration.
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Defense Secretary Robert McNamara asked Morton Halperin to oversee the production of the Pentagon Papers.
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Les Gelb, a member of Morton Halperin's staff, oversaw the staff that actually wrote the study.
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Morton Halperin won a symbolic $1 judgment in 1977 for the offense, but the judgment was overturned by an appeals court.
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Morton Halperin was the director for the Project on National Security and Civil Liberties from 1975 to 1977.
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From 1984 to 1992, Morton Halperin served as director of the American Civil Liberties Union office in Washington.
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Morton Halperin worked on a number of civil rights bills, including an immigration reform bill in 1986, the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, and the American Disabilities Act of 1990.
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Morton Halperin defended the right of The Progressive magazine to publish a description of the design principle of a thermonuclear weapon.
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At the start of the Clinton administration, Morton Halperin was appointed as a consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
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Morton Halperin focused on several issues of interest to Secretary Albright, including democracy promotion ; nuclear issues; a review of the way that the United States responds to humanitarian disasters overseas; and northeast Asian security.
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Morton Halperin was integrally involved in managing the crises in Kosovo and East Timor.
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Morton Halperin created the Open Society Foundations' office in Washington, DC, and oversaw all policy advocacy on US and international issues, including promotion of human rights and support for open societies abroad.
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Morton Halperin was the director of the Washington office for the Open Society Institute from 2002 to 2005 and the director of US advocacy from 2005 to 2008.
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Morton Halperin was the executive director of the Open Society Policy Center from 2002 to 2008.
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Morton Halperin was a senior vice president at the Center for American Progress from 2003 to 2005 and a senior fellow at CAP from 2003 to 2009.
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Morton Halperin was a senior advisor to the Open Society Foundations.
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President Obama nominated Morton Halperin to serve on the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in 2012 and again in 2015, and he was twice confirmed by the US Senate.
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Morton Halperin is a prolific author and co-author of 25 books, including Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy.
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Morton Halperin authored Strategy and Arms Control ; Limited War in the Nuclear Age; and Contemporary Military Strategy.
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Morton Halperin was a partial writer of The Lawless State, which documents the surveillance techniques and crimes of the US government during the Cold War.
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Morton Halperin is the chairman of the Community of Democracies, Civil Society Pillar International Steering Committee and he is chairman of the board of JStreet.
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Morton Halperin serves on the boards of ONE and ONE Action.