Background

Mr. Zelikow was born on September 21, 1954 in New York, United States. He is a son of Nate and Lee (Landsman) Zelikow.

Education

Philip Zelikow attended the University of Houston between 1972 and 1975. He received his degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Redlands in 1977. In 1981 Mr. Zelikow obtained Juris Doctor degree from the University of Houston. He also completed his studies at Tufts University, earning Master of Arts in 1984. In 1995 he received Doctor of Philosophy from the same university.

Career

In 1979 Mr. Zelikow held the post of a briefing attorney at Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Austin. From 1980 to 1983 he acted as a trial attorney at David Berg and Associates (now Berg & Androphy), Houston, Texas. After practicing law in the early 1980s, Mr. Zelikow turned toward the field of national security. He was adjunct professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in 1984-1985.

During the period of 1985-1989 Philip D. Zelikow occupied several posrts at the U.S. Department of State, Washington, District of Columbia: political officer and political adviser in Vienna, Austria, watch officer at Operations Center, Washington, District of Columbia, and line officer for Secretariat Staff, Washington, District of Columbia. Between 1989 and 1991 he served as a director for European security affairs at National Security Council, Washington, District of Columbia.

In 1991 Mr. Zelikow became an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later member of Center for Science and International Affairs and Standing Committee on European Studies.

He has been a contributor to books, including Securing Peace in the New Era: Politics in the Former Soviet Union and the Challenge to American Security, Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed World and The CIA and Estimates of the Soviet Union, 1950-1985. Moreover, he is known to be a contributor to periodicals, including International Security, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Strategic Studies, World and I, Political Science Quarterly, and Survival.

Achievements

• Philip D. Zelikow is notable for his writings connected with the areas of history and public policy. Mr. Zelikow has also written about terrorism and national security, including a set of Harvard case studies on "Policing Northern Ireland." He also has co-written many books. He is a recipient of several grants from Municipality of Afulah (1992) and from Vatat.

Works

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  • Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft 1995
  • The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis 2002
  • Dealing with Dictators: Dilemmas of US Diplomacy and Intelligence Analysis, 1945-1990 2006
  • Why People Don't Trust Government 1997
  • The 9/11 Commission Report: The Attack from Planning to Aftermath 2011
  • American Military Strategy: Memos to a President 2001
  • Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy 1998
  • America and the Balkans: Memos to a President 2000
  • To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process: Report of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform 2002
  • America and the East Asian Crisis: Memos to a President 2000

Membership

• International Institute for Strategic Studies , United States

• Council on Foreign Relations , United States

• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations , United States

Interests

• Sport & Clubs

  hiking, skiing, tennis

Connections

Philip Zelikow married Paige Ellen Partain on May 30, 1982. The couple has two children, whose names are Alexander and Carolyn.

Father:

Nate Zelikow

Mother:

Lee (Landsman) Zelikow

Wife:

Paige Ellen Partain

Son:

Alexander Zelikow

Daughter:

Carolyn Zelikow