History Experts
Lecturer in the History of Africa, University of Florence, and in the History of International Relations, University for Foreigners, Perugia, Italy
Blair A. Ruble is currently Director of the Wilson Center’s Program on Global Sustainability and Resilience and Senior Advisor to the Center’s Kennan Institute. Previously, he served as the long-time Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1989-2012) as well as of the Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Program (1992-2012). A native of New...
Full Professor, University of Pavia, Italia
Most of my publications concern 1. local government in the late modern history ; 2. state administration in the same era. But I happened to deal with different subjects such as administrative communication, the history of legal thought and, lately, the transfer of institutional models. Much of the underlying research work is comparative, albeit with reference to Europe only.My research work...
Chairman of the Board of the American Jewish International Relations Institute
Ambassador Richard Schifter has had a distinguished career as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. and in government. Since 2005 he has served as chairman of the board of directors of American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI).After receiving his L.L.B. from the Yale School of Law in 1951, he practiced law in Washington, DC with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, 1951-1984, and i...