Expertise American foreign policy; immigration policy; European policy; Balkan policy, particularly Bosnia and Kosovo; humanitarian aid issues 

Experience
Contributing Editor, The New Republic Magazine; Board Member, the Arms Project of Human Rights Watch; Columnist, Salmagundi Magazine; Fellow, The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University; Senior Editor, Farrar, Straus& Giroux (1978-89). 

Rieff is a frequent contributor to The New Republic, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The National Post (Canada), and the Times Literary Supplement. 

Education: 
A.B. History, Princeton University 

Languages: 
French, Spanish 

Contact davidrieff(at)compuserve.com 

BOOKS

Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir

Simon & Schuster, 2008

Reviewed: Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2008; Powell's Books, January 9, 2008; San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2008; The New York Times, January 29, 2008; Philadelphia Inquirer, February 3, 2008; Salon.com, February 13, 2008; Washington Post, February 24, 2008.

Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know

(with Roy Gutman and Anthony Dworkin)

W.W. Norton, 2007 (reprint)

At the Point of a Gun

Simon & Schuster, 2006

A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis

Simon & Schuster, 2003

Going to Miami: Tourists, Exiles and Refugees in the New America

University Press of Florida, 2000

Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West

Touchstone, 1996

The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami

Touchstone, 1994

Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World

Touchstone, 1992

SELECTED ARTICLES

"The Wrong War," The New York Times, a book review, March 16, 2008.

"Without Exception: Same Old Song," World Affairs, Winter 2008.

"The Bureaucrat of Torture," World Policy Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2002.

"Humanitarian Intervention," with Shashi Tharoor and Sam Daws. World Policy Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2001.

"Suffering and Cynicism in Burundi," World Policy Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2001.

"Kosovo's Humanitarian Circus," World Policy Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2000.

"The Crusaders: Moral Principles, Strategic Interests, and Military Force," World Policy Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2000.

"The Ruthless Luxuries of Peace," World Policy Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2000

"A Second American Century? The Paradoxes of Power," World Policy Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1999.

"A New Hierarchy of Values and Interests," World Policy Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall 1999.

"A New Age of Liberal Imperialism?" World Policy Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1999.

"In Defense of Afro-Pessimism," World Policy Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1998/99.

"Therapy or Democracy? The Culture Wars Twenty Years On," World Policy Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1998.

MEDIA

Featured on Public Radio International's "To the Best of Our Knowledge," discussing his mother's death and his book, Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir. Audio.

"Aid to Africa Debate," New York City. December 9, 2007. Mr. Rieff argues for the motion "Aid to Africa is doing more harm than good." Video here.

LECTURES & APPEARANCES

Rieff will be speaking at the Sydney (Australia) Writers Festival in May.

On May 15, 2008, Rieff will participate in a panel discussion, “From Ethiopia To Chechnya: Reflections on Humanitarian Action,” a Doctors Without Borders public event, New York City.

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