Robert Pastor
Robert Pastor | |
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| Born | Robert Alan Pastor April 10, 1947 John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| Occupation(s) | writer, member of the United States National Security Council staff |
Robert Alan Pastor (April 10, 1947 – January 8, 2014) was a member of the National Security Council staff and a writer on foreign affairs.
Education
Pastor earned his bachelor's degree in history from
Personal life
Pastor was married to the former Margaret McNamara, daughter of former Secretary of Defense
Work history
Pastor was a member of the National Security Council Staff with a portfolio that included Latin America and the Caribbean during the administration of President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
Pastor was nominated by President
He served as a Senior Fellow at the Carter Center, where he established the programs on Latin America and the Caribbean, democracy and election-monitoring, and Chinese village elections. He was also Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science at Emory University.
Pastor was Vice President of International Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. from September 2002-December 2007. There, he helped establish the American University of Nigeria, transformed and expanded the study abroad program and introduced the "Abroad at AU" program, bringing students from around the world to study for a semester or year at AU. He also founded and headed the university's Center for Democracy and Election Management, and the Center for North American Studies and was executive director of the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform.[3] In 2003, Pastor was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.
Pastor was Vice Chair of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales) and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.[4]
North American Community
Pastor's advocacy of North American integration has been the subject of heated controversy, with criticisms from the left and the right.[5] Pastor proposed a North American Community, "whose premise is that all three sovereign countries benefit when each of the countries makes progress, and all suffer when one fails".
Pastor is featured in the 2010 Canadian documentary film
Published works
He is well-published on US foreign policy, having written or edited 17 books, including "The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future,"Exiting the Whirlpool: US Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean, Democracy in the Caribbean: Political, Economic and Social Perspectives and Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico.
Pastor has published extensively his theories of a North American Community, including Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World to the New.[6]
Through the Independent Task Force on North America he has released the reports Building a North American Community[7][8] and "Creating a North American Community", both released in 2005.[9]
See also
- North American Community of Nations
- Operation Charly
References
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "MEMORANDUM Robert Pastor". American University Washington, DC. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ a b Robert Pastor. "Profile Robert Pastor". American.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ "Creating a North American Community - Council on Foreign Relations". Archived from the original on 2008-02-07. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ Corsi, Jerome R. (2006-07-25). "Meet Robert Pastor: Father of the North American Union". Archived from the original on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
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Pastor, Robert A. (2001). Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New. ISBN 978-0-88132-328-3.
- ISBN 978-0-87609-348-1. Archived from the originalon January 26, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.cfr.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2005. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Creating a North American Community - Council on Foreign Relations". Archived from the original on 2008-02-07. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
