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Friedberg, Aaron Louis was born on April 16, 1956 in Pittsburgh. Son of Simeon Adlow and Joan Libby (Brest) Friedberg.
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How do statesmen become aware of unfavorable shifts in relative power, and how do they seek to respond to them? These are puzzles of considerable importance to theorists of international relations. As national decline has become an increasingly prominent theme in American political debate, these questions have also taken on an immediate, pressing significance. The Weary Titan is a penetrating study of a similar controversy in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Aaron Friedberg explains how England's rulers failed to understand and respond to the initial evidence of erosion in their country's industrial, financial, naval, and military power. The British example suggests that statesmen may be slow to recognize shifts in international position, in part because they rely heavily on simple but often distorting indicators of relative capabilities. In a new afterword, Friedberg examines current debates about whether America is in decline, arguing that American power will remain robust for some time to come.
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Friedberg, Aaron Louis was born on April 16, 1956 in Pittsburgh. Son of Simeon Adlow and Joan Libby (Brest) Friedberg.
After receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in Government from Harvard, Friedberg joined the Princeton University faculty in 1987 and was appointed professor of politics and international affairs in 1999. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
He has served as Director of Princeton"s Research Program in International Security at the Woodrow Wilson School as well as Acting Director of the Center of International Studies at Princeton. Friedberg is a former fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Counselors for the National Bureau of Asian Research"s Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies.
In September 2001, Friedberg began a nine-month residential appointment as the first Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress.
During his tenure he researched "the rise of Asia and its implications for America." Apart from many articles for Commentary magazine, Friedberg has written several books on foreign relations. He was one of the signers of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) documents Statement of Principles (June 3, 1997) and a letter on terrorism submitted to President George West. Bush (September 20, 2001).
His name has been connected to the Aspen Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute. Friedberg represented the Romney campaign in his capacity as the campaign"s National Security Advisor during a debate on United States policy toward China in October 2012.
Although Friedberg"s international relations philosophy is rooted in concern for the structural organization of power characteristic of the realist school of international relations, he draws from many of the traditions of liberal institutionalism, resulting in what scholar Thomas Christensen has termed a "positive-sum" stance on international relations.
Hence, unlike his more pessimistic realist scholars, Friedberg, in a seminal article published in International Security in 1993, advocated continued United States. engagement in East Asia to serve as a stabilizing force until regional economic integration and multilateral institutions had time to development Thus, in contrast to traditional realpolitik scholars, Friedberg believes that conflict is not inevitable in East Asia as China continues to develop as long as multilateral institutions and economic integration are used as tools to manage security dilemmas.
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Member Defense Policy Board. Member of Institute for Strategic Studies, Council Foreign Relations.
Married Adrienne Louise Sirken, June 19, 1988. Children: Eli, Gideon.