Morton Halperin

Center for American Progress

Bio

Morton Halperin has served in the Nixon, Johnson and Clinton administrations, most recently as director of policy planning at the department of State (1998-2001).

He is currently a senior vice president of the Center for American Progress and is the director of the Open Society Policy Center.

Featured Work

The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace by Halperin, Seigle and Weinstein

MAR 17, 2005 Transcript

The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace

The authors argue that democracy and development go hand in hand. Therefore, more aid should be given to poor democracies and democratizers than to poor ...