Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio) is a U.S. diplomat and political scientist. Talbott earned his B.A. from Yale, and went on to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. It is there that he met fellow Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton with whom he is still friends today. While at Oxford, Talbott translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English. He pursued a career in writing, working for Time for twenty-one years (eventually becoming Editor-at-Large) before entering politics. Talbott served as Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2000, In addition to several successful books, Talbotts writings have been published in
The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Slate, Time and The Washington Post. He is currently the president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Talbott is a world federalist who wrote in a July 20, 1992, Time Magazine article, "The Birth of the Global Nation", that "The best mechanism for democracy, whether at the level of the multinational state or that of the planet as a whole, is not an all-powerful Leviathan or centralized superstate, but a federation, a union of separate states that allocate certain powers to a central government while retaining many others for themselves."
• Endgame: The Inside Story of Salt II (1979)
• The Russians and Reagan (1984)
• Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Statements
in Nuclear Arms Control (1984)
• Master of the Game:
Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace (1988)
• Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11 (2002)
• The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (2002)
• Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb (2004)
