Adam Garfinkle

Adam M. Garfinkle (born June 1, 1951) is an American historian and political scientist and the founding editor of ''The American Interest'', a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of ''The National Interest.'' He has been a university teacher and a staff member at high levels of the U.S. government. He was a speechwriter to more than one U.S. Secretary of State. Garfinkle was a speechwriter for both of President George W. Bush's Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. He was editor of ''The National Interest'' and left to edit ''The American Interest'' in 2005. Francis Fukuyama, Eliot Cohen, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Josef Joffe, and Ruth Wedgwood were among the magazine's founding leadership. Provided by Wikipedia