John Newhouse covered foreign policy forThe New Yorkerthroughout the 1980s and early 1990s and wrote numerous profiles of world figures. He has served the U.S. government as assistant director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and was senior policy adviser for European affairs in the State Department during the second half of the Clinton administration. His books includeEurope AdriftandWar and Peace in the Nuclear Age.He is currently a senior fellow at the Center for Defense Information. He lives in Washington, D.C.