Robert D. English
Professor and Director, School of International Relations, University of Southern California
"Ukraine, Russia, and the West: Crisis, Causes, and Consequences "
8:00 PM Monday, December 01, 2014
Dennison Theatre
"Reconsidering the Cold War's End"
3:10 PM Monday, December 01, 2014
Gallagher Business Building 123
Please join us for a seminar with Robert D. English. After receiving a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 1995, he taught first at Allegheny College and then at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Since 2001, he has taught at the University of Southern California and became director of the School of International Relations in 2012. His courses at USC include Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Strategy and Arms Control, International Relations Theory, the Political Economy of Eurasia, Ecological Security and Global Politics, and Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict.
Prior to his graduate work at Princeton, Professor English was a policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, involved in strategic and conventional force planning. He later worked as a senior researcher on the Committee for National Security for which he analyzed strategic defense and space weapons, treaty verification and compliance, and general Soviet political-military affairs.
Professor English has published three books:
- Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War (2000, winner of the Marshal Shulman Prize and the Edgar S. Furniss Award)
- Rebirth: A History of Europe since World War II (1999)
- The Other Side: How Soviets and Americans Perceive Each Other (1987)
Work in progress includes “Mikhail Gorbachev: A Political Biography” and “Our Serbian Brethren: History and Identity in the Making of Russia’s Balkan Diplomacy.”
He is a frequent commentator on contemporary Russian affairs and has participated prominently in the national debate over the crisis in Ukraine.
The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.