Bret Louis Stevens (November 21, 1973 ) - American journalist and publicist ; Pulitzer Prize laureate for 2013 [1] . The foreign policy columnist and deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal [2] .
| Bret L. Stevens | |
|---|---|
| Bret L. Stephens | |
 B.L. Stevens in 2009 | |
| Date of Birth | November 21, 1973 (aged 45) |
| Place of Birth | |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Spouse | Corinna da Fonseca Volheim |
| Awards and prizes | Pulitzer Prize , 2013. |
Early years
Born in New York [3] . Parents, Xenia and Charles Stevens, are . A paternal grandfather changed the surname Erlich to Stevens (in honor of the poet ) [4] .
As a teenager, attended Boarding School in Massachusetts . He studied political philosophy at the University of Chicago , as well as comparative political science at the London School of Economics [5] .
Career
He began the Wall Street Journal as a in New York . Then he worked as a journalist of the same publication in Brussels .
From 2002 to 2004 he was the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post [6] .
Political Opinions
In his book America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder (2014) [approx. 1] , Stevens defends the thesis that the US rejected the use of force to maintain the world law and order in the first decades of the 21st century. may lead to growing global problems in the future.
According to Stevens, leading world powers, primarily the United States, should use the theory of broken windows to maintain the world’s law and order, namely, immediately stop crimes against humanity committed by individual governments or authoritarian leaders. Among successful operations of this kind, Stevens calls the bombing of Serbia by NATO forces in 1999 to redress ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. As a reverse example, Stevens cites the refusal of US President Barack Obama to punish Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons against the civilian population of Syria [7] .
Prizes and Distinctions
- 2005: was named among the young leaders of the World Economic Forum .
- 2008:
- 2010: Bastia Prize
- 2012: Pulitzer Prize [1]
Personal life
Wife: Corinna da Fonseca Volheim, music critic for The New York Times . The couple has three children and lives in New York. [8] [9]
Bibliography
- Bret Stephens. America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder. - Sentinel, 2014 .-- 288 p. - ISBN 978-1591846628 .
See also
- The Stop Trump Movement
Notes
- Notes
- ↑ Translation of the title into Russian: " America is retreating: a new isolationism and the threat of world chaos ." As of August 2016, there are no publications in Russian.
- Footnotes
- ↑ 1 2 "The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Commentary . "
- ↑ Wolf, Leon H .. WSJ Deputy Editor: “Hillary Clinton ... Is A Survivable Event. I'm Not So Sure About Donald Trump. ” (June 17, 2016). Date of treatment August 8, 2016.
- ↑ Born in New York City, per Bret Stephens, interviewed on C-SPAN2's BookTV program, After Words , 1-17-2015.
- ↑ Being Bret Stephens - Or Not - WSJ
- ↑ Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Appoints Key Editors for Its International Editions , Global News Wire (August 12, 2009).
- ↑ Bret Stephens: Deputy editor, editorial page, The Wall Street Journal . The Wall Street Journal. Date of treatment July 2, 2008.
- ↑ Stephens, 2014 .
- ↑ Stephens, Bret . Being Bret Stephens - Or Not (June 26, 2009).
- ↑ da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna (March 20, 2012).
Links
- How to Fix the World, NYPD-Style on YouTube - B. L. Stevens Explains the Application of the Broken Window Principle on Prager University Channel