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The Fog of War
Dr. Carla Anne Robbins
Veteran foreign policy journalist and national security expert, Pulitzer Prize–winning former senior editor at The New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, now serving as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of international affairs, with expertise spanning global security, U.S. foreign policy, and international diplomacy.
Patron Event
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Reception: 6:30 – 7:00 PM
Lecture: 7:00 – 8:00 PM
East & West Room at the Cosmopolitan Club
122 East 66th Street
New York, NY 10065
About the Topic
The United States entered a war with Iran without a clearly articulated objective or a consistent public narrative. Drawing on fast-moving developments in the region, as well as other conflicts, Dr. Robbins will consider what this moment reveals about U.S. foreign policy—both in process and execution—and the consequences for American alliances, security, and global leadership in the months and years ahead.
About the Speaker
Dr. Carla Anne Robbins is a veteran journalist, foreign policy analyst, and academic. She currently serves as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and as the Marxe Faculty Director of the Master of International Affairs program as well as a clinical professor of national security studies at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.
Before returning to academia, Dr Robbins spent more than twenty years as a foreign correspondent, Washington-based reporter, and editor. She was deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times and served as chief diplomatic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, and reported from Latin America, Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. During her time at the Journal, she was part of reporting teams that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. She also received the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting.
Dr. Robbins is a graduate of Wellesley College and earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. She was also a Nieman fellow at Harvard University and a media fellow at Stanford University.