Gideon Rose

Gideon Rose is a former editor of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In 1985 he earned a B.A. in Classics from Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key.

In 1985 Rose was appointed assistant editor of The National Interest, a foreign policy quarterly.

He then went on to hold a similar position at a domestic quarterly, The Public Interest.

He served as associate director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 under the Clinton Administration.

Rose was born to a Jewish family, the son of Joanna (née Semel) and Daniel Rose, a real estate developer.

He received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1994.

He served as associate director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 under the Clinton administration.

Rose was an Olin Senior Fellow and the deputy director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2000, before he was appointed managing editor of Foreign Affairs to replace Fareed Zakaria.

In 1996, he joined Princeton University's Politics Department as a lecturer on American foreign policy and then held a similar position at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, where he currently teaches as an adjunct professor in the department of political science.

On June 3, 2010, it was announced that Rose would be succeeding James F. Hoge Jr. as the editor of Foreign Affairs.

He took up the position on October 1, 2010.

Rose left as editor in January 2021 and joined the Council on Foreign Relations' thinktank to write a book.

He was succeeded by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan.