America Over the HorizonGary SickAdjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, U.S.
This series of lectures/mini-course will look at the evolution of U.S. political, economic and military presence in the Persian Gulf from the Second World War to the present. It will examine the range of U.S. security strategies employed over that time, from the barely visible U.S. presence in the earliest days to the omnipresent U.S. influence today. The object of this series of lectures is to put in context U.S. foreign policy decision making in the Persian Gulf over a particularly tumultuous period, and to engage in a dialogue on the subject with SAIS students and faculty.
GARY SICK
Gary Sick is a senior research scholar at SIPA's Middle East Institute, and an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs.
He is the author of
All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran (Random House 1985) and
October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan (Random House 1991).
Sick served on the National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. He was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis. Sick is a captain (ret.) in the U.S. Navy, with service in the Persian Gulf, North Africa, and the Mediterranean. He was the deputy director for International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982 to 1987, where he was responsible for programs relating to U.S. foreign policy. Sick teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs, where he was voted one of the top five teachers in 2009. He is a member (emeritus) of the board of Human Rights Watch in New York and founding chair of its advisory committee on the Middle East and North Africa. He is the executive director of Gulf/2000, an international online research project on political, economic and security developments in the Persian Gulf, being conducted at Columbia University since 1993 with support from a number of major foundations.
Gary Sick received his B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1957 and a Master of Science from George Washington University in 1970. He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1973.
Sick Lecture Schedule and Bibliography 2013.docPost Event Coverage: Seminar Report