Morton Halperin

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Awards

Halperin has won numerous awards, including:

In 1985 he won a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

He was a partial writer of The Lawless State , which documents the surveillance techniques and crimes of the U.S. government during the Cold War.

Boards

Halperin is the chairman of the Community of Democracies, [22] Civil Society Pillar International Steering Committee and he is chairman of the board of JStreet. [23] He also serves on the boards of ONE and ONE Action. [24]

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Further reading

Morton Halperin
Director of Policy Planning
In office
September 16, 1998 January 20, 2001