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Charles Kupchan

Former Fellow

    Term

    June 1, 2006 — March 1, 2007

    Professional affiliation

    Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University & Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

    Wilson Center Projects

    "The Sources of Stable Peace"

    Full Biography

    Dr. Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2014 to 2017 Kupchan served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council in the Obama White House. He was also Director for European Affairs on the NSC during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the Clinton NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012), How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (2010), The End of the America Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (2002), Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999), Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998), Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (1995), The Vulnerability of Empire (1994), The Persian Gulf and the West (1987), and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs. Kupchan received a B.A. from Harvard University and M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. He has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, Columbia University’s Institute for War and Peace Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Centre d’Etude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. During 2006-2007, he was the Henry A. Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. During 2013-2014, he was a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy.

    I have spent most of my career working at the intersetion of academia and public policy. After a first teaching job at Princeton, I opted for a stint in the government, working on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. Since the mid-1990s, I have been a professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the council on Foreign Relations. I have also served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, Columbia University's Institute for War and Peace Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Centre d'Etude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, and the Imstitute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo.

    Education

    B.A. (1981) East Asian Studies, Harvard University
    M. Phil. (1983) Politics, Oxford University
    D. Phil. (1985) Oxford University
     

    Subjects

    Balkan Region,European Union,Homeland Security,NATO,U.S. Foreign Policy
     

    Experience

    Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, 1993-1994
    Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University, 1987-1992
     

    Expertise

    Transatlantic relations; European Union and NATO; Balkans, U.S. foreign policy; U.S. national security

    Major Publications

    • The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (New York: Knopf, 2002)
    • Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1995)
    • The Vulnerability of Empire (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1994)
    • Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001)
    • Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999)
    • Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998)
    • The Persian Gulf and the West (1987)