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Jeffrey Laurenti
Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign Policy Programs
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Phone:   (212)535-4441    Fax:   (212)535-9803    E-mail:  laurenti@tcf.org

Jeffrey Laurenti is senior fellow and director of foreign policy programs at The Century Foundation. He is the author of numerous monographs on subjects such as international peace and security, terrorism, U.N. reform, international narcotics policy, and many other topics. He was executive director of policy studies at the United Nations Association of the United States until 2003, and currently serves on the association’s Board of Directors. He also served as deputy director of their United Nations and Global Security initiative, which was established with backing from The Century Foundation to support the debate on international security of the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change commissioned by the United Nations secretary-general. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986, senior issues adviser to the Mondale/Ferraro campaign in 1984, and from 1978 to 1984 was executive director of the New Jersey Senate. He is the coeditor of Breaking the Nuclear Impasse: New Prospects for Security against Weapons Threats (The Century Foundation Press, 2007) and Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century (The Century Foundation Press and the Center for American Progress, 2007)and has authored articles for the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, New York Newsday, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as numerous international policy journals. Graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in government from Harvard University, he earned his masters in public affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He speaks Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese.

Laurenti lives in Trenton, New Jersey, with his wife Yuki Moore and son Mario.


Articles on Economics & Inequality

Breaching China's Great Currency Wall
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 3/16/2010

Tobin Tax Time
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/26/2010


Publications on Homeland Security

Breaking the Nuclear Impasse: New Prospects for Security against Weapons Threats
Jeffrey Laurenti, Carl Robichaud, Century Foundation Press, 9/5/2007


Articles on Homeland Security

McCain Explodes Conservatives' Nuclear Myths
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/6/2008

American Optic: Terrorist vs. Freedom Fighter
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/7/2005


Articles on Media & Politics

Obama Undercuts Leverage on Climate Enforcement
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/29/2009

A Hundred Days of Shattering Shibboleths
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 5/1/2009

High-Voltage Message in Washington's Frigid Air
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/21/2009

Red Phone Ringing
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 3/11/2008

Global Campaign Against Death Penalty Establishes Beachhead In New Jersey
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/18/2007

Bush, Father of the New Internationalism?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/9/2007

A Vanishing Swagger
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/7/2006


Publications on International Affairs

Fighting Off Fatigue: The UN Cornerstone of Antiterrorism Action
Jeffrey Laurenti, 5/1/2009

First Steps toward Restoring American Leadership: Legality Matters
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 10/30/2008

Relevance and Realities: Washington’s Flirtation with a League of Democracies
Jeffrey Laurenti, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung , 10/8/2008

Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War
Jeffrey Laurenti, Paradigm Publishers, 5/23/2008

Breaking the Nuclear Impasse: New Prospects for Security against Weapons Threats
Jeffrey Laurenti, Carl Robichaud, Century Foundation Press, 9/5/2007

What 'Reinforcement' for the Security Council?
Jeffrey Laurenti, 7/20/2005


Articles on International Affairs

Baghdad Endgame and Afghan Ambiguity
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 9/1/2010

Brazil’s American Challenge
Jeffrey Laurenti, , 7/12/2010

Investment Recouped in Canceled Missiles
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/11/2010

Ain't Gonna Make War No More
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/11/2010

Battling Nuclear Inertia Goes Beyond Sanctions
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/9/2010

A Gaza Test for Obama National Security Strategy
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/2/2010

Karzai Comes Calling
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 5/12/2010

Ahmadinejad Tightens the Sanctions Noose
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 5/7/2010

Say Again, Why Did We Start That War?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 4/15/2010

Breaching China's Great Currency Wall
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 3/16/2010

What Ukrainian election?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 2/8/2010

State of the Union and foreign policy
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/28/2010

Tobin Tax Time
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/26/2010

The Best and Worst of 2009: the World
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/30/2009

Climate Auguries Turn Promising in Copenhagen
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/8/2009

Obama Races the Afghan Clock
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/3/2009

Seeking Light at the End of the Afghan Tunnel
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 11/12/2009

Soft Targets and Great Games in Afghanistan
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 10/29/2009

Nobel Bookends
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 10/9/2009

Obama Week on the World's Premier Stage
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 9/21/2009

Afghan Fallout from the Italian Job
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 9/19/2009

A Japan earthquake felt in Washington
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/23/2009

Squeezing Between Elephants
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/22/2009

Korea Tremors from Obama Nuclear Initiative
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/12/2009

Climate Heartburn
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 7/23/2009

Half-way Through, Ban Ki-moon in the Shadows
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 7/1/2009

World economy bric-a-brac
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/22/2009

Iran election no deterrent to Obama
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/16/2009

Obama's speech boxes in Ahmadinejad
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/8/2009

Racing Against Time on the Af/Pak Front
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 5/8/2009

A Hundred Days of Shattering Shibboleths
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 5/1/2009

The Koh Firestorm
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 4/3/2009

London's G-20 Bridge Falling Down?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 3/27/2009

Salvador Presents Washington Conservatives With Hard Choice
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 3/24/2009

Arrest Warrant in Sudan May Force Obama's Hand
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 3/4/2009

High-Voltage Message in Washington's Frigid Air
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/21/2009

Gaza, The Seaward Road to Peace?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/20/2009

The Best and the Worst of 2008: The World
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/30/2008

Obama Harnesses His Security Team
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/3/2008

Looking back from 2025
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 11/21/2008

Grabbing Obama's Ear on Iran
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 11/13/2008

Blinkered Ideologues' Afghan Legacy
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 9/16/2008

Liberian Poster-Child in Peril
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/15/2008

Auguries on Iraq
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/8/2008

Mugabe Madness
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 7/3/2008

McCain Explodes Conservatives' Nuclear Myths
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/6/2008

First Hints Of A Cuban Thaw?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 3/14/2008

The Best and the Worst of 2007: The World
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/3/2008

Global Campaign Against Death Penalty Establishes Beachhead In New Jersey
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/18/2007

Iran Assessment Puts Europe In Driver’s Seat
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/6/2007

Rudderless in the Pacific
Jeffrey Laurenti, Matt Homer, The Century Foundation, 12/4/2007

American Leadership After Iraq: Carter Redux?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 11/23/2007

Rice in Lebanon: Hard to Digest
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 11/6/2007

Alternate U.N. Routes for Burma
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 9/28/2007

The U.N. in a Post-Bush World
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 9/24/2007

Father Knows Best: Re-Casting a Middle East Regional Meeting
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 9/14/2007

Bush, Father of the New Internationalism?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/9/2007

The U.N. In Iraq—Handle With Care
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 7/27/2007

Labor Thicket Stinging China
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 7/9/2007

Blair as Mid-East Envoy Needs Open Channels
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/28/2007

Human Rights Vote Tests U.N. Council’s Credibility
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 5/15/2007

Yeltsin and an American Myth
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 4/24/2007

Kosovo Onward, With All Deliberate Speed
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 4/18/2007

Contain Iran, Not Bomb It
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 2/5/2007

The Best and Worst in The World, 2006
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/4/2007

A Vanishing Swagger
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/7/2006

From Annan to Ban, a Korean Surprise
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 10/6/2006

Implementing the U.N.’s Peace in Lebanon
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/15/2006

Doing Unto Cuba as We Did Not Do Unto Iraq
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/8/2006

Reality Check: What International Force In Lebanon?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 7/26/2006

There You Go Again, Mr. President
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 7/20/2006

At Last, Congress Proclaims Iraq Ends and Means
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/20/2006

Democracy Rhetoric Confronts Caribbean Reality
Emerson J. Sykes, Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 5/25/2006

Stocktaking: The Status of UN Reform after the Millennium + 5 Summit
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 4/25/2006

Iran Carrots and Sticks
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 4/17/2006

Avoiding Defeat on Human Rights
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 4/7/2006

Iraq's Dead Ends Build Pressures for Change
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 2/15/2006

Palestinian Elections: Not Politics as Usual
Michael Shtender-Auerbach, Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/28/2006

The Best and the Worst of 2005: The World
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/1/2006

Schizophrenic Administration Heightens U.S. Isolation
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/21/2005

Summit Asymmetry: The United States and UN Reform
Jeffrey Laurenti, International Spectator, 12/15/2005

Bold Yardsticks for Iraq
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 12/5/2005

Grand Goals, Modest Results: The U.N. in Search of Reform
Jeffrey Laurenti, Current History, 12/1/2005

Murtha on Iraq: Breaching the Dike
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 11/21/2005

Bungling Iraq's Constitution Plays Into al Qaeda's Hands
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 10/12/2005

On Iraq War, the Elixir of Democracy?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/22/2005

Wild Cards in the Japanese Election
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/18/2005

Bolton: A New UN Phenomenon
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 8/3/2005

Fork in the Road: UN Reform and the United States
Jeffrey Laurenti, The World Today, 8/1/2005

A Security Council Numbers Game: All Bets Off
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 7/19/2005

Iraq: Pushing on an Open Door
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 7/1/2005

Italy’s Challenge to the U.S.
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/28/2005

A Nuclear Conference that We Can’t Let Fail
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 5/2/2005

Turning Our Backs on Planet Mars
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 4/20/2005

UN Arab Report Undercuts Washington Triumphalism
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 4/8/2005

Consolidating Iraq’s Democratic Gains
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 2/8/2005

Iraq Elections: No Silver Bullet
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 1/11/2005

U.S. Opens Global Front In Stem-Cell Debate
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 9/21/2004

The Price of Arrogance
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/24/2004

Can the Iraqis Take the Chance?
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 6/11/2004



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