Faculty Professor Michael Mandelbaum (Ph.D.) is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He has also taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities and at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Professor Mandelbaum is the associate director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Project on American Relations With the Former Communist World. He serves on the Board of Advisors of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington-based organization sponsoring research and public discussion on American policy toward the Middle East. Born in 1946, Professor Mandelbaum is a 1968 graduate of Yale College. He earned his Masters degree at Kings College, Cambridge University and his doctorate at Harvard University. Professor Mandelbaum is the author or co-author of numerous articles and of eleven books: Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government (2007); The Case of Goliath; How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first 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, Democracty 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 (co-author, 1988), Reagan and Gorbachev (co-author, 1987). The Nuclear Future (1983), The Nuclear Revolution: International Politics Before and After Hiroshima (1981), The Nuclear Question:The United States and Nuclear Weapons , 1946-1976 (1979). He is also the editor of twelve books. Professor Piero Gleijeses (Ph.D.) is a Professor of American Foreign Policy and Latin America Studies. Prof. Gleijeses received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and has lectured at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. Air Force Academy and throughout Latin America and Europe. He is the author of numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the International Journal of Diplomatic History and has published four books including Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States. Prof. Gleijeses is currently writing a book on the U.S. response to crises in Latin America and Africa. Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski is a professor of American Foreign Policy Professorial Lecturers Professor Charles Stevenson (Ph.D.) SAIS Professorial Lecturer in American Foreign Policy. Prior to SAIS, Dr. Charles Stevenson was a professor of National Security Policy at the National War College during 1992-2005. During 1999-2000, he served as a Member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, working on use of force issues and long-range planning. Prior to joining the NWC faculty, he served 22 years at a staff member to four different Senators, working primarily on defense and foreign policy issues. His areas of academic specialization include national security policy making, civil-military relations, the politics of national security, and technology and military innovation. He has degrees from Harvard (AB and PhD) and the Fletcher School (MA) and studied at King's College, London on a Fulbright Fellowship. He is the author of three recent works: SecDef: the nearly impossible job of Secretary of Defense (2006); Warriors and Politicians: U.S. civil-military relations under stress (2006); and Congress at War: A Historical Guide (2007). Ambassador Phyllis Oakley holds an M.A. degree from the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy. Ambassador Oakley has served twice as Assistant Secretary in the Department of State as a career Foreign Service officer. Most recently in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, she headed a staff of 285 responsible for global, all source analysis, intelligence policy, and coordination. She also directed the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. She was the first woman spokesperson for the State Department. Professor Bart Fisher. SAIS Professorial Lecturer in American Foreign Policy. Dr. Fisher is Managing Partner of the Law Office of Bart S. Fisher. He has practiced international trade and investment law since 1972, and has represented trade associations such as the American International Automobile Dealers Association; U.S.corporations such as Mars, Incorporated; and foreign governments such as the People’s Republic of China, Iceland, and the Dominican Republic. He holds a law degree from Harvard Law School, an M.A. and Ph.D in International Relations from SAIS, and a B.A. from Washington University. He has written a leading law school casebook on international trade and investment, and his articles have been published in numerous newspapers and law journals. He is currently Chairman of the Give Life Foundation, Vice Chairman of The Institute of Biltmore, and Managing Partner of J J & B Investment Banking. Professor John Karaagac has taught at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs and now teaches at the University of Richmond. He has written four books addressing the intersection of American politics, the presidency and foreign policy. His interests include American foreign policy / politics and the more traditional wing of International Relations Theory. Karaagac received a PhD in International Relations from SAIS, where he studied under George Liska. He received his master’s degree from Cambridge and his undergraduate degree, in history, from UC Berkeley.
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