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About Paul Starobin
Paul Starobin is a contributing editor to National Journal and author of After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age (Viking Penguin, 2009). A former Moscow bureau chief for Business Week, he has written for publications including The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Geographic.
Starobin has reported from Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, India, Europe and South America. Previous positions include reporter for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, business reporter for The Lowell Sun in Massachusetts, and public-policy case writer for the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He grew up in Worcester, Mass. and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. in 1979. Starobin received a Masters of Science degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1981. He was an international journalism fellow for the Knight Foundation in 1998. He lives with his wife and their two children, along with their Moscow-adopted dog, in Massachusetts.