Middle East Strategy at Harvard

Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy and Director of the American Foreign Policy Program at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington. His fields of expertise are American economic policy; American foreign policy; globalization; nation-building and democracy; NATO; and strategic and security issues.

He has served as a faculty member at Harvard University and the U.S. Naval Academy; director of the Project on East-West Relations and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (1986-2004); deputy director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Project on American Relations With Europe and the Former Communist World; and member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy board of advisers. He holds his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

His books include Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government (2007); The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century (2006); The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football and Basketball and What They See When They Do (2004); The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the 21st Century (2002); The Dawn of Peace in Europe (1996); The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1988); The Global Rivals (1988); Reagan and Gorbachev (1987); The Nuclear Future (1983); The Nuclear Revolution: International Politics Before and After Hiroshima (1981); and The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1946–1976 (1979).

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