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*[http://forum-network.org/lecture/where-does-turkey-belong-western-perceptions-turkish-foreign-policy-and-american-response PBS|NPR Forum Network Lecture - Morton Abramowitz:Turkish Foreign Policy and the American Response] |
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Revision as of 22:22, 10 September 2010
Morton Isaac Abramowitz (b. 1933) was a United States diplomat and State Department official.
Biography
Morton I. Abramowitz was born in Lakewood, New Jersey on January 20, 1933. He was educated at Stanford University, receiving a B.A. in 1953. He then attended Harvard University, earning an M.A. in 1955. He spent the next year studying at American University.
In 1956, Abramowitz joined the United States Department of Labor, first as a management intern, then as a labor economist from 1957-58. In 1959, he joined the United States Department of State as a program analyst posted in Taipei. From 1960 to 1962, he was Consular-Economic Officer in Taipei. He was then posted as a political officer in Hong Kong from 1963 to 1966. He returned to the United States in 1966, becoming a State Department international economist. From 1968 to 1971, he served as a Special Assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary of State. He was a State Department foreign affairs analyst 1971-73. From 1974 to 1968, he was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
In 1978, President of the United States Jimmy Carter named Abramowitz United States Ambassador to Thailand, and he held this post from August 9, 1978 until July 31, 1981.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan named Abramowitz U.S. Ambassador to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Negotiations in Vienna.
President Reagan nominated Abramowitz as Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1985, and Abramowitz held this office from February 1, 1985 through May 19, 1989 (with the name of the office changing to Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research in 1986).
In 1989, President George H. W. Bush named Abramowitz United States Ambassador to Turkey, a post he held until 1991.
Abramowitz retired from government service in 1991, becoming president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He retired from that position in 1997. Since then, he has been a Senior Fellow of The Century Foundation and a director of the National Endowment for Democracy.
Books by Morton I. Abramowitz
- Remaking China Policy (1972)
- Moving the Glacier: The Two Koreas and the Powers (1972)
- East Asian Actors and Issues (1991)
- China: Can We Have A Policy? (1997)
- Turkey's Transformation and American Policy (2000, essays, ed.)
- with James T. Laney, Testing North Korea: The Next Stage in U.S. and Rok Policy (2001)
- with Stephen W. Bosworth, Chasing the Sun: Rethinking East Asian Policy Since 1992 (2006)