at CAP from 2003 to 2009. He was a senior advisor to the Open Society Foundations. He retired in 2002. Obama administration President Obama nominated Halperin to serve on the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in 2012 and again in 2015, and he was twice confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He served as director until March 9, 2018. Publications Halperin is a prolific author and co-author of 25 books, including Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy. The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. He also authored Strategy and Arms Control (with Thomas C. Schelling); Limited War in the Nuclear Age; and Contemporary Military Strategy. Selected articles Review of SPOOKS: The Haunting of America—The Private Use of Secret Agents, by Jim Hougan. New York Times (Nov. 26, 1978), p. SM 212. “Guaranteeing Democracy.” Foreign Policy, no. 91 (Summer 1993), pp. 105–122. . . Awards Halperin has won numerous awards, including: Meritorious Civilian Service Award, Department of Defense, January 1969 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award, Playboy Foundation, July 1981 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale Graduate School Alumni Association, June 1983 Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, June 1985, June 1990 John Jay Award, Columbia College, 1986 Public Service Award, Federation of American Scientists, December 1998 National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame, March 2006 In 1985 he won a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. He was a partial writer of The Lawless State, which documents the surveillance techniques and crimes of the U.S. government during the Cold War. Boards Halperin is the chairman of the Community of Democracies, Civil Society Pillar International Steering Committee and he is chairman of the board of JStreet. He also serves on the boards of ONE and ONE Action. References Further reading Hougan, Jim. Spooks: The Haunting of America—The Private Use of Secret Agents. New York: William Morrow (1978). . External links The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace by Halperin, Siegle & Weinstein (2004) Ch.1 Interview with Glenn Greenwald for Salon, 13 August 2008 Statement on the nomination of Dr. Morton Halperin, Congressional Record, United States Senate, 15 July 1994 1938 births Living people Directors of Policy Planning George Soros MacArthur Fellows American people of the Vietnam War 20th-century American Jews Nixon's Enemies List Center for American Progress people United States National Security Council staffers American Civil Liberties Union