Doug Bandow Vice-President Policy for Citizen Outreach

Doug Bandow is Vice President of Policy for  Citizen Outreach, a Washington-based grassroots political organization.  He also is the Bastiat Scholar in Free Enterprise at the Competitive  Enterprise Institute and the Cobden Fellow in International Economics at the  Institute for Policy Innovation. He was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Cato  Institute.  Before that he served as a Special Assistant to President  Ronald Reagan and as a Senior Policy Analyst in the 1980 Reagan for  President campaign.

He writes the weekly  column "Foreign Follies" for the leading website antiwar.com.   Previously a nationally syndicated columnist with Copley News Service and  editor of the monthly political magazine Inquiry, he has been widely  published in such periodicals as Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Christianity  Today, Foreign Policy, Harper's, National Interest, National Review,  New Republic, Orbis, and World, as well as leading newspapers including  the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.  Bandow  has written and edited several books, including Foreign Follies:   America's New Global Empire (Xulon Press), Leviathan Unchained:   Washington's Bipartisan Big Government Consensus (Xulon Press), The Korean  Conundrum:  America's Troubled Relations with North and South  Korea (Palgrave/Macmillan, coauthor), Tripwire:  Korea and U.S.  Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Cato), Perpetuating Poverty:   The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World (Cato, coeditor), and  The Politics of Plunder:  Misgovernment in Washington (Transaction).

He has also  appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including ABC Nightly  News, American Interests, CBS Evening News, CNN Crossfire, CNN Larry King  Live, Good Morning America, Nightline, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.  He  received his B.S. in Economics from Florida State University in 1976 and  his J.D. from Stanford University in 1979.