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Paul Rosenzweig

avatar Paul Rosenzweig is Visiting Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies and Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at Heritage Foundation. Rosenzweig, who helped craft policy and strategy inside the Department of Homeland Security, brings that experience back to The Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow. Rosenzweig understands the vision behind the nation’s homeland security policy since the 2001 terror attacks, as well as the implications for America’s international partners. He is the founder of Washington, D.C.-based Red Branch Consulting PLLC, which provides legal and strategic advice on national security and privacy concerns to individuals, companies and governments. From 2002 to 2005, Rosenzweig was senior legal research fellow in Heritage’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, where his specialties included civil liberties, national security and criminal law. He then served as deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Homeland Security and as acting assistant secretary for international affairs. In four years at DHS, he developed policy, strategic plans and global approaches to homeland security, ranging from immigration and border security to avian flu and international rules for data protection. He became a visiting fellow at Heritage in 2010.


The Two Realities

The Two Realities

February 15, 2010 | 0 Comments | By Paul Rosenzweig

Professor Mark Shulman’s article advocating the adoption of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms as a foundation for U.S. foreign policy is a useful contribution to the contemporary political debate. Indeed, we all might wish that his policy prescriptions would lead to a new age of enlightened internationalism under U.S. influence and leadership. Unfortunately, history does not afford us cause for optimism. In the last 100 years, twice – after both World Wars – the West has hoped for a better world free from want and fear. And yet, those hopes – for the enshrinement of the Four Freedoms in the halls of government around the world – foundered on the rocks of reality when totalitarianism was established in a resurgent Germany under Hitler and in the hegemony of Stalinist Russia during the Cold War.