James Traub Biography

James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine where he has worked since 1998. He has written extensively about international affairs and especially the United Nations as well as national politics urban affairs and education. In recent years he has reported from among other places Afghanistan Iraq Pakistan Egypt Iran Sudan Guinea Bissau Congo Sierra Leone Angola Georgia Kosovo and Haiti. His weekly column on foreign policy Terms of Engagement appears on foreignpolicy.com the website of Foreign Policy magazine. Traub's most recent book is The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not The Way George Bush Did). In 2006 he published The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in The Era of American World Power. Traub teaches a class on American foreign policy as part of New York University's Sheikh Mohammad Scholarship Program in Abu Dhabi. He is a senior fellow of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect a fellow of the Center on International Cooperation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is currently writing a biography of John Quincy Adams and speaks regularly about foreign affairs on CNN's In The Arena and through several other venues.

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