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 twelve books: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era (2010); 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 American Studies. Professor 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 The Cuban Drumbeat (2009)and Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States (1991). Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski is a professor of American Foreign Policy. Professorial Lecturers Professor John Karaagac (Ph.D.) SAIS Professorial Lecturer in American Foreign Policy. Dr. Karaagac has taught at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs. 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 wind of International Relations Theory. Dr. Karaagac received his Ph.D. 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. Professor Phyllis Oakley SAIS Professorial Lecturer in American Foreign Policy. Professor Oakley holds an M.A. degree from the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy. She 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 Alan Platt (Ph.D.) SAIS Professorial Lecturer in American Foreign Policy. Dr. Platt, a SAIS graduate, has had extensive experience in the making of U.S. foreign policy. He has held senior positions with the U.S. Department of State; the Senate Foreign Relations; and the RAND Corporation, a Calfornia-based, national security think tank. In addition, he has taught foreign policy courses at Columbia University, Stanford University, and UCLA and published three books and more than thirty articles on U.S. foreign policy and international economic issues. Currently, he is a Principal of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a large international firm. In addition to his degree from SAIS, Dr. Platt holds a B.A. from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Columbia. Professor Steven Rosen (Ph.D.) SAIS Professorial Lecturer in American Foreign Policy. Dr. Rosen is currently the director of the Washington Project at the Middle East Forum. He served for 23 years as a top official for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Prior to AIPAC, Dr. Rosen taught political science and international relations at the University of Pittsburgh, Brandeis University, and the Australian National University. He co-authored, The Logic of International Relations, a best selling textbook that went through four editions from 1974 through 1982. Dr. Rosen also served as an Associate Director of the National Security Strategies Program at the RAND Corporation, conducting and supervising research and analysis of classified material under contract with the Pentagon, the State Department, and the armed services. 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 as 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. Dr. Stevenson has degrees from Harvard (B.A. and Ph.D.) and the Fletcher School (MA) and studied at King's College, London on a Fullbright 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). | 
