MARTIN WALKER
Editorial Board Member, World Policy Journal
Senior Fellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expertise Europe; American foreign policy; NATO; International economics; Russia; globalization; sustainability 

 

 

Experience
Editor Emeritus and international affairs columnist, writing the bi-weekly syndicated column 'Walker's World' for United Press International, the global news agency. Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C. (current); Associate Editor, Demokratizatsiya, the journal of Soviet Democratization (current). Recently Mr. Walker was appointed Head of A.T. Kearney's Global Policy Council. 

 

Formerly Mr. Walker served on the staff of The Guardian, of Manchester and London, as reporter, columnist, features writer and foreign correspondent, European Editor; US Bureau Chief (1989-97); Moscow Bureau Chief (1983-88); Delegate for Committee to Protect Journalists, to investigate Soviet press freedoms(1991); Vice-chairman, The European Institute, Washington DC; Contributing editor, The Los Angeles Times, Europe magazine, IntellectualCapital.com, Parliament magazine (Brussels).

 

He also served on staff of Senator Ed Muskie (1970-71); was a Congressional Fellow, American Political Science Association (1970); and was a Harkness Fellow, resident tutor, Kirkland House, Harvard (1969-70). 

 

 

Honors & Affiliations: 
Foreign Correspondent of the Year prize awarded by Krokodil magazine, Moscow (1988);

Reporter of the Year Prize, the "What The Papers Say Awards," (1987, Great Britain).  

 

 

Education: 
First Class Honours degree in Modern History, Balliol College, Oxford University 

 

 

Languages: 
Fluent French and Russian; reading Spanish, German, Italian 

 

 

Contact walker(at)worldpolicy.org

 

 

 

BOOKS

 

 

The Iraq War: As Witnessed by the Correspondents and Photographer’s of United Press International

Potomac Books, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

Makers of the American Century

Chatto Windus, 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The President We Deserve: Bill Clinton: His Rise, Falls, and Comebacks

Crown, 1996

 

 

The Cold War: A History

Owl Books, 1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Waking Giant: Gorbachev’s Russia

Pantheon, 1986

 

 

 

 

SELECTED ARTICLES

 
Read a select number of articles here.

 

“Globalization 2.0,” Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2007.

 

"China's Own Crisis" UPI, Oct. 8, 2007. 

 

"The High Price of China's Growth," UPI, Oct. 1, 2007.

 

"Russia v. Europe: The Energy Wars," World Policy Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2007.

 

"Bush v. Annan: Taming the United Nations," World Policy Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2005.

 

"The Winter of Germany's Discontent," World Policy Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter 2002/03.

 

"America's Virtual Empire," World Policy Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2002.

 

"Post 9/11: The European Dimension," World Policy Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2001/02.

 

"Bush's Choice: Athens or Sparta," World Policy Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2001.

 

"Europe: Superstate or Superpower?" World Policy Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2000/01.

 

"Whose Internationalism? Whose Isolationism?" World Policy Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2000.

 

"The New European Strategic Relationship," World Policy Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1999.

 

"The Euro: Why It's Bad for the Dollar But Good for America," World Policy Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1998.