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U.S. foreign policy, defense policy, national security policy, Transatlantic relations, European Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
As a foreign affairs analyst, Helle Dale has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy, defense and national security since 1991 when she joined The Washington Times. As deputy editorial page editor, she was responsible for the newspaper's editorial positions in foreign affairs and national security policy and from 1995 has written a widely-read weekly foreign affairs column on the op-ed page of The Washington Times.
In 1997, she was named the newspaper's editorial page editor. In this capacity, she oversaw the paper's policy on presidential, congressional and local politics as well as foreign affairs. Under her leadership, the editorial page of The Washington Times became an essential place to stop for visiting foreign leaders and politicians, and the op-ed page an important forum for the discussion of American foreign policy.
She has traveled widely in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Asia. Before joining The Washington Times, Helle Dale was a writer for Insight magazine, a writer for WGBH radio and a correspondent for the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllandsposten.
Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, National Review, European Affairs. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, FOX Cable, C-SPAN, PBS, BBC, Al Jazeera.
She earned a Diploma of English studies in Oxford, England, graduated with an M.A. in English and American studies from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and pursued graduate work in American studies at Tufts University, Boston.
She is a media fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, serves on the board on the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.