The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago; Stephen Walt, Harvard University; Robert Keohane, Princeton University, discussant.
(Nov 26, 2007 at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)
Bob Drogin has covered intelligence and national security in the Washington bureau of the LA Times since 1998. He is the author of the 2007 book, “Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War,” about an Iraqi informant who was a key source for claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
He spent most of the previous decade as a foreign correspondent, reporting on Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa, the genocide in Rwanda, the Persian Gulf War, and other news from nearly 50 countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Drogin first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1983 as a national correspondent based in New York City. He traveled to nearly every state and covered the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns.
A native of Bayonne, NJ, Drogin dropped out of college to backpack in Asia for a year and later hitchhiked to Alaska. He graduated from Oberlin College and received his Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Drogin has won or shared numerous journalism prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, an Overseas Press Club of America Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards, an International Center for Investigative Journalism Award, and a George Polk Award. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 1997 and a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford in 2006. |
