Robert D. Blackwill

Robert D. Blackwill is the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Blackwill served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for strategic planning under President George W. Bush, presidential envoy to Iraq, and US ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. He is the recipient of the German government’s Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit for his work in the White House on German Unification, and of the Padma Bhushan Award from the government of India for the Transformation of the US-India Relationship.

His books include Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power (2024), War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft (2016), and Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (2013). His CFR Special Reports include The End of World Order and American Foreign Policy (2020); Implementing Grand Strategy Toward China: Twenty-Two U.S. Policy Prescriptions (2020); Containing Russia (2018); and Repairing the U.S.-Israel Relationship (2016).