“He kept asking, ‘Is my suitcase going to be safe in your apartment?’ I said, ‘What’s in the suitcase?’ and he said, ‘I can’t say,’ ” recalled Weisman, who had befriended Talbott at Yale in the ’60s ...

What is a nation? Strobe Talbott joins Larry Mantle to tackle the question. In his new book, "The Great Experiment," the author and president of the Brookings Institutions looks back to the ...

A hybrid event at Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle on Oct. 8 celebrated the legacy of Strobe Talbott ’68 — a journalist, diplomat and longtime public servant. The event included remarks from Talbott’s ...

QThe Great Experiment covers a lot of detailed history in a limited space. AIt was actually kind of a terrifying prospect when I started it, and it ended up — if you can ever confess this — a lot of ...

Scott Simon talks with Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of state, about the Bush-Putin arms control agreement. Talbott is currently director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

If you were to approach a publisher with the idea of writing a combination history of the world, a memoir of your work in government and a criticism of George W. Bush's administration in one book, it ...

Robert Siegel talks to former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott about Russia's plan for Syrian chemical weapons disarmament. Is the Russian proposal to have Syria's chemical weapons placed ...

“Sober but sick,” said Bill Clinton on catching sight of Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Cologne G-8 summit in 1999. Clinton was a shrewd judge of his counterpart’s state. By the end of Clinton ...

These two works -- each part memoir, part treatise on diplomacy -- serve as bookends in our current debate about America's role in the world. John Bolton, most recently President Bush's ambassador to ...