{{Short description|American government official}} {{for|the American anthropologist|Peter Rodman (scientist)}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2013}} {{Use American English|date=December 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Peter Rodman | image = Peter W. Rodman, 2001.jpg | office = Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs | president = George W. Bush | term_start = July 16, 2001 | term_end = March 2, 2007 | predecessor = Franklin D. Kramer | successor = Mary Beth Long | office1 = 15th United States Deputy National Security Advisor | president1 = Ronald Reagan | term_start1 = March 1986 | term_end1 = December 1986 | predecessor1 = Donald Fortier | successor1 = Colin Powell | office2 = 14th Director of Policy Planning | president2 = Ronald Reagan | term_start2 = April 9, 1984 | term_end2 = March 3, 1986 | predecessor2 = Stephen W. Bosworth | successor2 = Richard H. Solomon | alma_mater = Harvard University (AB, JD)<br />Worcester College, Oxford (BA, MA) | birth_name = Peter Warren Rodman | birth_date = November 24, 1943 | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = August 2, 2008 (aged 64) | death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. }}
'''Peter Warren Rodman''' (November 24, 1943 – August 2, 2008) was an American attorney, government official, author, and national security adviser.
== Early life and education ==
Born in Boston, he was educated at The Roxbury Latin School. He earned an A.B from Harvard College, a B.A. and M.A. from Worcester College, Oxford, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
== Career == Rodman began his career in government as a staff member on the National Security Council, working from 1969 to 1977 and serving as an assistant to Henry Kissinger. From 1977 to 1983, he was a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 1984 to 1986, Rodman served as Director of Policy Planning under Ronald Reagan. He served as Reagan's Deputy National Security Advisor from 1986 to 1987. From 1987 to 1990, he served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and National Security Council Counselor.
He was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998 Project for the New American Century sent to the U.S. President Bill Clinton.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/george-packer/pnac-and-iraq|title=PNAC and Iraq|last=Packer|first=George|magazine=The New Yorker|date=29 March 2009|language=en|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref> He worked extensively with Henry Kissinger, helping him write his memoirs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/02/25/henry-kissinger-remembers-peter-rodman/|title=Henry Kissinger remembers Peter Rodman|last=Brose|first=Christian|website=Foreign Policy|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref> He was a member of the board of trustees of Freedom House, Vice President and member of the board of directors of the World Affairs Council and a Fellow of the Foreign Policy Institute of SAIS.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://washingtonspectator.org/warriors-behind-the-scenes-coached-the-stars-on-stage/|title=Warriors Behind the Scenes Coached the Stars On Stage|last1=Policy|first1=Margie Burns in Foreign|last2=Politics|date=2004-05-01|website=Washington Spectator|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref>
From 1991 to 1999, Rodman was a senior editor at ''National Review,'' a conservative magazine. He also served as the Director of National Security Programs at the Center for the National Interest, a conservative think-tank founded by Richard Nixon.
Rodman returned to government service as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the George W. Bush administration.
In March 2007, he left his position as United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs to become a Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brook.edu/ |title=Home |website=brook.edu}}</ref> He was the author of ''More Precious Than Peace'', a book on the Cold War in the Third World in which he praises the Reagan administration for warding off communism in Afghanistan, Angola, and Cambodia.
== Personal life == Rodman and his wife, Veronique, had two children. Veronique was named a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors by George W. Bush, serving from 2003 to 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usagm.gov/who-we-are/board/veronique-rodman/|title=Veronique Rodman|website=USAGM|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref> Rodman died in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 2, 2008, from leukemia. He was 64.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/washington/05rodman.html|title=Peter Rodman, Foreign Affairs Expert, Dies at 64|date=2008-08-05|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-03|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * ''Development administration: Obstacles, theories and implications for planning (IIEP occasional papers)'' (1968) * ''More Precious Than Peace: Fighting and Winning the Cold War in the Third World'' (1994) {{ISBN|0-684-19427-9}} * ''Nato's role in a new European security order (The future of NATO GPIS working paper)'' (1995) * ''Arms Control and the U.S.-Russian Relationship'' (1996) [https://fas.org/spp/eprint/cfr_ncpf.htm 1] * ''America adrift: A strategic assessment'' (1996) * ''Broken triangle: China, Russia, and America after 25 years'' (1997) * ''Between friendship and rivalry: China and America in the 21st century'' (1998) * editor of ''NATO at FIFTY: Perspectives on the Future of the Transatlantic Alliance'' (1999) {{ISBN|0-9670233-0-0}} * ''Drifting apart?: Trends in U.S.-European relations'' (1999) * ''Uneasy giant: The challenges to American predominance'' (2000) * ''Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush'' (2009)
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|Peter Rodman}} * [http://www.meforum.org/docs/author/Peter+W.+Rodman A couple of old articles] from the Middle East Quarterly. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060223092438/http://www.thepresidency.org/events/lead/991022pwr.htm Speaker biography] at The Center for the Study of the Presidency. * [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/08/peter_w_rodman_1943_2008/ Tributes and Eulogies] * [http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjQ3ZGI4YTc3NmVmNGFlMzk2NGZkNGNlMTdmYjY2YTU=/ More Tributes and Eulogies]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2598560/Peter-Rodman.html Telegraph obituary] * {{C-SPAN|20340}}
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