RCS Seminar–Fall 2013
I am from Higgins Beach, in Scarborough, Maine, six miles south of Portland. After spending five years as track announcer at Scarborough Downs, I left to study fulltime in graduate school, where my advisor was Akira Iriye. My B.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) come from Harvard, my M.A. from the University of Chicago (1989). Before coming to Brooklyn College & the CUNY Graduate Center, I taught at Arizona State and Williams; I also have served as a visiting professor at Harvard (2005) and at Tel Aviv University (2007-8), as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities.
Feel free to e-mail me or call me (207-329-8456) with any comments or questions; or follow me on twitter.
Below are links to the PowerPoints for each session:
PowerPoint 1: Early Foundations
PowerPoint2: From World War II to the Cold War
background reading:
- review of books on North African campaign
- Truman administration plan for Palestine
- CIA “self-study” on 1953 Iran coup
PowerPoint 3: The Foundations of the U.S.-Israeli Alliance
- Avner Cohen, “When Israel Stepped Back from the Brink“
- Michael Oren, “Remembering Six Days in 1967“
- LBJ and the Arab ministers, 1967
PowerPoint4: The End of the Cold War & the New World Order
PP#5: The United States and International Terrorism
PowerPoint6: Contemporary Dilemmas
Reading & Commentary Sites on Contemporary the U.S. Role in the Region
Lara Setrakian (Syria Deeply, twitter)
Daniel Drezner (Foreign Policy, twitter)
Jeffrey Goldberg (Bloomberg View, twitter)
Marc Lynch (Foreign Policy, twitter)
Al Jazeera English (twitter)
Michael Koplow (Ottomans and Zionists, twitter)
Joshua Foust (Medium, twitter)
KC Johnson 