10/22: Stephen M. Walt: The Israel Lobby and the Prospects for Middle East Peace
Thursday, October 22, 7:30 PM
Fleming Museum, Room 101, 61 Colchester Ave, Burlington, Vermont. Stephen M. Walt is t...
10/22: Stephen M. Walt: The Israel Lobby and the Prospects for Middle East Peace Thursday, October 22, 7:30 PM Fleming Museum, Room 101, 61 Colchester Ave, Burlington, Vermont. Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine, co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, and cochair of the editorial board of the journal International Security. His book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-authored with John J. Mearsheimer, was a New York Times best-seller and has been translated into more than twenty languages. Sponsored by: UVM Departments of Political Science, Geography, History, and Middle East Studies and Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel. Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he served as academic dean from 2002-2006. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and deputy dean of social sciences.
He has been a resident associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, and he has also been a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
Professor Walt is the author of Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (W. W. Norton, 2005), and, with coauthor J.J. Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).
He presently serves as faculty chair of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and as co-chair of the editorial board of the journal International Security. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and Journal of Cold War Studies, and coeditor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press. He was elected as a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.
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