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PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
Project Leader

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expertise  National Security & Civil Liberties; Espionage; Privacy; Immigration; Cross-border Crime; Privacy; Human Smuggling

 
Project Leader Patrick Radden Keefe is a writer who focuses on intelligence, international security, immigration, and the globalization of crime. He is the author of CHATTER: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping (Random House, 2005), and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Slate.

 

He is also a Fellow at The Century Foundation, and his articles and Op-Eds have appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, The New York Times Magazine and Op-Ed page, The New York Review of Books, Legal Affairs, the Boston Globe, WIRED, and other publications.

 

The recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Patrick is currently working on a book about human smuggling between China and the United States, to be published by Doubleday in 2009.

 

 

Education 

M.A. International Relations, Cambridge University

M.A. New Media and Information Systems, London School of Economics

J.D. Yale Law School

 

 

Contact  http://www.patrickraddenkeefe.com

 

 

 

BOOKS

 

Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Eavesdropping

Random House, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECTED ARTICLES

 

Check out a selection at http://www.patrickraddenkeefe.com/articles/

 

 State Secrets,” The New Yorker, April 28, 2008.

"China's Great Migration," Slate.com, April 9-11, 2008.

"The Jefferson Bottles," The New Yorker, September 3, 2007.

"The Idol Thief," The New Yorker, May 7, 2007.

"The Snakehead," The New Yorker, April 24, 2006.

 

 

LECTURES & APPEARANCES

Spoke about "The Espionage Industrial Complex: Costs of Privatizing Intelligence Post-9/11" Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007, at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs.

 

 

 

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