Peter Scoblic

Dr. Peter Scoblic is a senior associate (non-resident) with the Hess Center for New Frontiers. He is the cofounder of Event Horizon Strategies. Previously, Dr. Scoblic was the Sam Nunn Distinguished Fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative and served as executive editor of both the New Republic and Foreign Policy. He also served as deputy staff director of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, where he worked on the approval of the New START agreement and was the chief foreign policy speechwriter for Chairman John Kerry. In 2008, Viking Press published his book U.S. vs. Them, an intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy, and he is currently writing a history of decisionmaking for Simon & Schuster. He received his doctorate from Harvard Business School, where his research on strategic foresight won the Wyss Award for Excellence. He received his AB, with honors, in political science from Brown University.