A piece in The New Yorker presents an interesting picture of someone seemingly close to Condi Rice as an advisor - a man born in 1981. What experience does he bring to his task at the State Department? Read on:
"Henry Kissinger was a war-delayed sophomore at Harvard Madeleine Albright had just begu her Ph.D., James Baker was in la school, and Condoleezza Rice was graduate student at the University o Denver. One of Rice’s recent hires however, seems to be in a big hurr to get on with the diplomacy. year ago, Jared Cohen, who was born in 1981, joined the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff as its youngest member. Having completed a degree at Stanford won a Rhodes Scholarship, an earned a master’s in international relations at Oxford, Cohen help advise the State Department on “counter-radicalization,” youth, an education, with a special emphasis on the Muslim world. Last week Penguin published Cohen’s book—his second—“Children of Jihad: Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East.
“When we talk about the people of the Islamic world, the irony is that the majority of those people—sixty per cent—are under the age of thirty,” Cohen said recently, over a tuna steak at an Upper East Side restaurant. A former soccer player, with lightly moussed hair, he wore jeans, a blue shirt, and a herringbone jacket. He continued, “I always say that the largest party in every country—the largest opposition group in every country—is the youth party.”
"Henry Kissinger was a war-delayed sophomore at Harvard Madeleine Albright had just begu her Ph.D., James Baker was in la school, and Condoleezza Rice was graduate student at the University o Denver. One of Rice’s recent hires however, seems to be in a big hurr to get on with the diplomacy. year ago, Jared Cohen, who was born in 1981, joined the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff as its youngest member. Having completed a degree at Stanford won a Rhodes Scholarship, an earned a master’s in international relations at Oxford, Cohen help advise the State Department on “counter-radicalization,” youth, an education, with a special emphasis on the Muslim world. Last week Penguin published Cohen’s book—his second—“Children of Jihad: Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East.
“When we talk about the people of the Islamic world, the irony is that the majority of those people—sixty per cent—are under the age of thirty,” Cohen said recently, over a tuna steak at an Upper East Side restaurant. A former soccer player, with lightly moussed hair, he wore jeans, a blue shirt, and a herringbone jacket. He continued, “I always say that the largest party in every country—the largest opposition group in every country—is the youth party.”
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