Editing Carla Robbins (section)

==Career==
Robbins graduated from [[Wellesley College]] in 1974, with a bachelor's degree in [[political science]]. She subsequently attended [[University of California, Berkeley]], receiving master and doctorate degrees in political science.<ref name=wellesley />

In 1982, Robbins worked as an editor and, later, as a [[State Department]] reporter for ''BusinessWeek''. In 1986, she began working as the Latin America bureau chief for ''U.S. News & World Report'', where she later became a senior diplomatic correspondent. In 1993 she began working as a reporter and news editor at ''The Wall Street Journal'', going on to be their lead writer on [[foreign policy]].<ref name="wellesley">{{cite web |title=Carla A. Robbins, Deputy Editor of The New York Times |url=http://www.wellesley.edu/albright/faculty/robbins.html |publisher=Wellesley College |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827171602/http://www.wellesley.edu/albright/faculty/robbins.html |archivedate=2009-08-27 }}</ref>  In July 2006, she joined the editorial board of ''The New York Times''. In January 2007, she became the deputy editorial page editor.<ref name=aspen>{{cite web|title=Carla Anne Robbins |url=http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-strategy-group/about-aspen-strategy-group/group-members/carla-anne-robbins |publisher=The Aspen Institute |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119014755/http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-strategy-group/about-aspen-strategy-group/group-members/carla-anne-robbins |archivedate=2012-01-19 }}</ref> In July 2012, Robbins left ''The New York Times.'' She is now the faculty director of the Master in International Affairs program and a Clinical Professor of National Security Studies at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs [[Baruch College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/mspia/faculty-and-staff/full-time-faculty/carla-robbins.html|title=Carla Robbins - School of Public Affairs - Baruch College {{!}} CUNY|website=www.baruch.cuny.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/mspia/academics/master-of-international-affairs/Meet-Our-Faculty.html|title=School of Public Affairs - Baruch College {{!}} CUNY|website=www.baruch.cuny.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-02-25}}</ref> She is also a senior fellow at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cfr.org/experts/carla-anne-robbins|title=Carla Anne Robbins|website=Council on Foreign Relations|language=en|access-date=2018-02-25}}</ref>

A foreign policy commentator, she is considered an expert on national security and defense issues, with a particular focus on nonproliferation, [[Iran]] and [[North Korea]],  American politics and foreign policy, Washington’s budget battles, [[US defense spending|defense spending]], and US military rivalries and interventions.<ref name=":0" />