On Monday 18 June 2007 Dr Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, will lead a round table discussion on "Grand Strategy for a Divided America" from 5.30-6.30pm.
Dr Kupchan is Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. During 2006-2007, he is the Henry A. Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress and is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Formerly, Kupchan was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff. Prior to government service, he was an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
He is the author of 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 IISS, the Centre d’Etude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo.
This meeting will take place on the 4th floor conference room at Arundel House, 13-15, Arundel Street, WC2R 3DX.
