Christian Brose, Foreign Policy's senior editor, will leave the magazine to
take up a new post as the national security advisor for Arizona Sen. John
McCain. He replaces Richard Fontaine, the longtime McCain advisor who
left to take a senior fellowship at the Center for a New American Security
last month.
Brose previously served as policy advisor and chief speechwriter for former
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He joined State as a speechwriter
for then-Secretary Colin Powell.
The Washington Post profiled Brose and explained his meteoric rise at
State in a 2006 article.
Brose was instrumental in the redesign and relaunch of ForeignPolicy.com earlier this year,
including helping to conceive and create the Shadow Government blog, with a host
of notable conservative contributors including such senior Bush administration
officials as former State Department counselor Phil Zelikow, former Under Secretary of Defense Dov Zakheim, and former National Security Council officials including Peter
Feaver and Will Inboden.
FP executive editor Susan Glasser
announced that Feaver and Inboden will oversee Shadow Government. "Chris has
done an extraordinary job for FP of building Shadow Government, and we're
thrilled that Peter and Will -- two distinguished foreign policy writers and
thinkers -- will now keep the conversation going," she said. Feaver, a former NSC special advisor on
strategic planning, is the Hehmayer professor of political science and public
policy at Duke University and director of the Triangle Institute for Security
Studies. Inboden, former NSC senior director for strategic planning, is senior
vice president at the London-based Legatum Institute, a think tank.
Brose said he is honored by the opportunity to work for Senator McCain. But
he also added: "My
responsibilities to the people of Arizona will do nothing to weaken my
loyalties to Philly sports. My hopes for the Phillies in the postseason are
high (though I'm
anxious about our closers), and I remain confident that the Eagles will make it
to the Promised Land soon."
Amen to that, brother, and best wishes on your new endeavor.
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