Ivo H. Daalder, (born 1960, The Hague, Netherlands) is the current U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He is also an academic, political scientist, foreign policy adviser and author in the United States. Ambassador Daalder has been a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy studies at The Brookings Institution. He was an United States National Security Council (NSC) staffer in the Clinton administration and adviser to Democrats running for President of the United States.
Daalder was educated at the University of Kent, Oxford University, and Georgetown University, and received his Ph.D in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a fellow at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He is the recipient of a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs and an International Affairs Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations. Daalder is a member of the Academy of Political Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Prior to joining Brookings, Daalder was an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park’s School of Public Affairs, where he was also director of research at the Center for International and Security Studies. In 1995-97, he served as director for European Affairs on the National Security Council staff under President Bill Clinton, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward Bosnia. From 1998-2001, Daalder served as a member of the Study Group of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), a multi-year examination of U.S. national security requirements and institutions.
On March 11, 2009, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Daalder as United States Permanent Representative to NATO, a post commonly referred to as "U.S. Ambassador to NATO".
Daalder was a foreign policy adviser to Democrats: Howard Dean's 2004 campaign and to president Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.
With many others, Daalder signed four letters (2003–2005) on the stationery of the Project for the New American Century advising United States Congress and the George W. Bush administration on foreign policy.
He did not sign the original letter to President Clinton proposing [[regime change]] in [[Iraq]].
In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Portraits of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents they Serve...From JFK to George W. Bush, with I.M. Destler. (Simon & Schuster, 2009).
Beyond Preemption: Force and Legitimacy in a Changing World (edited, 2007).
The Crescent of Crisis: U.S.-European Strategy for the Greater Middle East, co-edited with Nicole Gnesotto and Phil Gordon (2006).
America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, with James M. Lindsay (2003). Winner of 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize. Revised and updated edition published by John Wiley & Sons in 2005. Translated into Chinese, Dutch, Korean, Italian and Polish.
Protecting the American Homeland: One Year on, with Michael O'Hanlon (editor), I. M. Destler, David L. Gunter, Robert Litan, Peter Orszag, and James Steinberg (2003).
Protecting the American Homeland: A Preliminary Analysis, with Michael O'Hanlon (editor), I. M. Destler, David L. Gunter, Robert Litan, Peter Orszag, and James Steinberg (2002).
Winning Ugly: NATO’s War to Save Kosovo, with Michael E. O’Hanlon (2000).
Getting to Dayton: The Making of America’s Bosnia Policy (2000).
“In the Shadow of the Oval Office: The Next National Security Adviser", with I. M. Destler, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2009, pp. 114—29.
“The Logic of Zero", with Jan Lodal, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2008, pp. 80—95.
“America and the Use of Force: Sources of Legitimacy,” with Robert Kagan, in Chollet, Lindberg and Shorr (eds). “Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide”, 2008.
“Restore Trust in America's Leadership”, with James M. Lindsay, ‘’Democracy: A Journal of Ideas’’, Fall 2007.
“Coping with Failure in Iraq”, Vrij Nederland, June 16, 2007.
(With James M. Lindsay) “Democracies of the World, Unite: The Debate Continues,” The American Interest, Vol. II, No. 4 (March/April 2007), pp. 137—139
“Democracies of the World, Unite”, with James M. Lindsay, The American Interest, January/February 2007.
“Renewing the Nuclear Bargain,” with Michael H. Fuchs and Morton H. Halperin, in Halperin, Laurenti, Rundlet and Boyer (eds) ‘’Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century’’, 2007.
“Global NATO”, with James Goldgeier, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006, pp. 105—113.
