Karl Meyer, Editor
Linda Wrigley, Managing Editor
Karl Meyer, who has edited World Policy Journal since the year 2000, is an experienced writer and commentator on international affairs, a former editorial writer for both the New York Times and the Washington Post, the author of a dozen books, and a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, Tufts, and most recently Bard College. Born in Wisconsin, he earned his BA at the state university and his masters degree in public affairs and PhD at Princeton University, and he has been a visiting fellow at Oxford University and Berlin's Institute for Advanced Study. His recent writings have focused on the imperial and postimperial age in South Asia and the former Soviet Union, and he has written, with his wife, Shareen Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia. His latest book, The Dust of Empire, reissued in paperback in 2004 by Public Affairs, examines the present and past of Russia and the West's involvement with Central Asia, Iran, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Dr. Meyer is a member of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, among other honors. MeyerK@newschool.edu
Linda Wrigley has been associated with World Policy Journal since 1993, for the past six years as managing editor. She was formerly an archivist on the staff of the Sterling Library at Yale University, director of the study of the consumers' movement at Consumers Union and was associate director of the Lehrman Institute, a New York City think tank that focused on foreign affairs and economic policy. She has also worked as a freelance book editor for foundations and university presses, specializing in books on international affairs. Her publications include the coedited volumes Greece at the Crossroads: The Civil War and Its Legacy (with John Iatrides), Immigration and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Robert W. Tucker and Charles B. Keeley), and The Atlantic Alliance and Its Critics (with Robert W. Tucker). WrigleyL@newschool.edu
