RCS Seminars

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.

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Below are links to the PowerPoints for each session:

PowerPoint 1: The Cold War Foundation

PowerPoint 2: Beyond the Cold War

PowerPoint 3: Afghanistan & International Terrorism

PowerPoint 4: The U.S. & the Middle East after the Arab Spring

PowerPoint 5: The Constitution & the U.S. Role in the Current World

PowerPoint 6: The United States and Transnational Matters

Reading & Commentary Sites on Contemporary US Foreign Policy

James Fallows (The Atlantic, twitter)

Daniel Drezner (Foreign Policy, twitter)

Jeffrey Goldberg (Bloomberg View, twitter)