Walter Russell Mead

Walter Russell Mead
Mead at Chatham House in 2012
Born	June 12, 1952 Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Education	Groton School Yale University
Occupation	Academic

Walter Russell Mead (born June 12, 1952) is an American academic. He is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and previously taught American foreign policy at Yale University. He is also the Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine and a non-resident Distinguished Scholar at the Hudson Institute.

Mead was born on June 12, 1952 in Columbia, South Carolina. His father, Loren Mead, is an Episcopal priest and scholar who grew up in South Carolina. His mother is the former Polly Ayres Mellette. Mead is one of four children with two brothers and a sister. Mead was educated at Groton School, a private boarding school. He then graduated from Yale University, where he received his B.A. in English Literature.

Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and previously taught American foreign policy at Yale University. He is also the Editor-at-Large of The American Interest. In 2014, he joined the Hudson Institute as a Distinguished Scholar in American Strategy and Statesmanship. He served as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations until 2010. He is a co-founder of the New America Foundation, a think tank that has been described as "radical centrist" in orientation.

In 2003, he argued that an Iraq war was preferable to continuing UN sanctions against Iraq, because "Each year of containment is a new Gulf War", and that "The existence of al Qaeda, and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are part of the price the United States has paid to contain Saddam Hussein."

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