Doug Bandow
Doug
Bandow
Foreign Follies
Doug Bandow is vice president of policy for Citizen Outreach, a grassroots political organization. He also is the Bastiat Scholar in Free Enterprise at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cobden Fellow in International Economics at the Institute for Policy Innovation.
He is a senior fellow in International Religious Persecution for the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. He was formerly a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He also served as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a senior policy analyst in the 1980 presidential campaign.
Previously a nationally syndicated columnist with Copley News Service and editor of the monthly political magazine Inquiry, he has been widely published in such periodicals as Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Christianity Today, Foreign Policy, Harper’s, National Interest, National Review, New Republic, Orbis, and World, as well as leading newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Bandow currently writes the weekly column “Foreign Follies” for the leading website www.antiwar.com. He has written and edited several books, including Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire (Xulon Press), Leviathan Unchained: Washington's Bipartisan Big Government Consensus (forthcoming, Xulon Press); The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations with North and South Korea (Palgrave/Macmillan, coauthor); Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Cato); Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World (Cato, coeditor); and The Politics of Plunder: Misgovernment in Washington (Transaction).
He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including ABC Nightly News, American Interests, CBS Evening News, CNN Crossfire, CNN Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Nightline, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. He received his B.S. in economics from Florida State University in 1976 and his J.D. from Stanford University in 1979.
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