Strobe Talbott

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Strobe Talbott is president of the Brookings Institution. He was founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001. He was Washington bureau chief and foreign policy columnist for Time, and a regular panelist on Inside Washington. He has written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker.

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Books by Strobe Talbott

The Great Experiment

The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation

By Strobe Talbott

This dramatic narrative of breathtaking scope and riveting focus puts the "story" back into history. It is the saga of how the most ambitious of big ideas -- that a world made up of many nations can govern itself peacefully -- has played out over the millennia. Humankind's "Great Experiment" goes...

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