David C. Unger is a journalist, foreign affairs editorial writer for The New York Times

The New York Times

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 and writer. Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

, Bologna.

Ph. D. University of Texas at Austin, A.B. History and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, additional graduate studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Institute for Historical Research, University of London.

David C. Unger studied American foreign policy with Walter LaFeber

Walter LaFeber

Walter LaFeber was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Department of History at Cornell University...

 at Cornell, economic history with W.W. Rostow and M.M. Postan at Texas, and British labor history with E.J. Hobsbawm in London.

Professional Organizations

Council on Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations

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 (member since 1989); Foreign Policy Roundtable, NYC (from 1997 to 2007) - Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is a New York City-based a 5013 public charity serving international affairs professionals, teachers and students, and the attentive public. Founded in 1914, and originally named Church Peace Union, Carnegie Council is an independent and...

 - Presenter and discussion leader - Wealth and Terror: Why America’s Quest for Absolute Security Is a Mission Impossible that Can Also Destroy Our Democracy (2007), Maps of War, Maps of Peace: Finding a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Question (2002); guest seminar leader, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on Obama and U.S. Foreign Policy (Nov., 2008);

Publications

• The Emergency State:How to End America’s Obsessive Quest for National Security and Reclaim our Democracy ISBN 978-1-59420-324-4 Penguin Press (forthcoming, 2012)
• Review of Innocent Abroad, The New York Times Book Review, Feb 1, 2009
• more than 3,000 foreign policy editorials published in The New York Times since 1977
• The Inevitable Two State Solution, World Policy Journal, Fall, 2008
• Maps of War, Maps of Peace: Finding a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Question World Policy Journal, Summer, 2002
• Asian Anxieties, Pacific Overtures: Experiments in Security for a New Asia-Pacific Community, World Policy Journal, Summer, 1994
• Articles on the New York Times by David Unger