James W. Carden served as an advisor to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and to the Special Representative for Intergovernmental Affairs at the State Department. A Writing Fellow at Globetrotter Media, his articles have appeared in publications on the left, right, and center including The Quincy Institute’s Responsible Statecraft, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The Spectator, The Nation, RealClearDefense, RealClearWorld, The American Conservative, Quartz, The National Interest, among many others.
He serves as Senior Consultant to ACURA and is a member of the board of the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy, a 501(c)3 dedicated to furthering international dialogue in a ‘post-liberal’ world.
He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins (SAIS) and did post-graduate work at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).