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Several SAIS professors have teamed up to launch The American Interest (AI), a new independent quarterly magazine devoted to exploring America's place in today's world, which published its premier issue in early September...Francis Fukuyama,... Eliot Cohen,... Zbigniew Brzezinski,... Josef Joffe,...Ruth Wedgwood,...The magazine's editor is Adam Garfinkle, who was a speechwriter for Rice and Colin L. Powell and served as the editor of The National Interest and a SAIS adjunct professor.
- ↑ "Adam Garfinkle Middle East Strategy at Harvard". Middle East Strategy at Harvard . Harvard University: John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Nov 1, 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
