James Traub

Topics:

Foreign Policy in the Obama Administration
Humanitarian Intervention and The Responsibility to Protect
Is There Hope for Democracy in the Middle East?
Democracy Promotion: America's Missionary Faith
Why We Should Care About The UN

Travels from: New York City

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James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he has worked since 1998. From 1994 to 1997, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker. He has also written for The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and elsewhere. His articles have been widely reprinted and anthologized. He has written extensively about international affairs and especially the United Nations. In recent years, he has reported from Iran, Iraq, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Vietnam, India, Kosovo and Haiti. He has also written often about national politics and urban affairs, including education, immigration, race, poverty and crime.

Most recently, Traub authored the critically acclaimed book, The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did). His previous books include: The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power (2006), The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square (2004), and City On A Hill, a book on open admissions at City College that was published in 1994 and won the Sidney Hillman Award for nonfiction. He is a senior fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at NYU and a member on the Council on Foreign Relations where he writes a column for Foreign Policy called Terms of Engagement.

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