Strobe Talbott

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Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio) is a U.S. diplomat and political scientist. He was the Deputy Secretary of State from 1993 until 2000. He has also been a friend of Bill Clinton since their days as fellow Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford, where he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English. He is currently the president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

Talbott is a world federalist who wrote in a July 20, 1992 Time Magazine article, "The Birth of the Global Nation", that "The best mechanism for democracy, whether at the level of the multinational state or that of the planet as a whole, is not an all-powerful Leviathan or centralized superstate, but a federation, a union of separate states that allocate certain powers to a central government while retaining many others for themselves" [1].

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