Dr. Robert D. English
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Professor School of International Relations Von KleinSmid Center, 305 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0043 (213) 821-3090 renglish@usc.edu
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Professor English's courses cover Russia, the former USSR, and Eastern Europe, with a focus that ranges from general issues of regional relations to specific questions of ethnicity, identity, and nationalism. He is presently working on a book-length study entitled Our Serbian Brethren: History, Myth, and the Politics of Russian National Identity.
Major Publications: Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War (2000); editor, My Six Years With Gorbachev (2000); and co-author, Rebirth: A Political History of Europe Since World War II (1999, 2nd edition). Pending publications are: "The Kosovo War" in the Oxford Encyclopedia of World Politics and "The Path(s) not Taken: Contingency and Counterfactual in Analysis of the Cold War's End" in William C. Wohlforth, ed., Witnesses to the End of the Cold War: Oral History, Analysis, Debates. Other chapters/articles include "Sources, Methods, and Competing Perspectives on the End of the Cold War," Diplomatic History, Spring 1998, and "External Enemies, Internal Enemies: Elites, Identity, and the Tragedy of Post Soviet Georgia," in Michael Kraus and Ron Liebowitz, eds., Russia and Eastern Europe After Communism (1997).
Achievements: Harold D.Lasswell Prize of the American Political Science Association (1996). Fellowships include the Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton Society of Fellows, the U.S. Fund for Peace, the International Research and Exchanges Board, and the Ford Foundation ("Dual Expertise Fellowship" in Soviet/East European and national security affairs).
Other Experience: U.S. Department of Defense (1982-1986) and Committee for National Security (1986-1988). Also previously taught at the Bologna Center, School of Advanced International Relations, Johns Hopkins University.
Ph.D. Princeton University
Fields: International foreign policy & defense analysis
Regional studies: Russia, the former USSR & Eastern Europe