Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government speaking at Berea College March 27

3/18/08

Stephen M. Walt, professor of international relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, will speak at Berea College Thursday, March 27.  In a program at 3 p.m. in Phelps Stokes Chapel, Dr. Walt will address the questions “What Went Wrong with U.S. Foreign Policy? (And How Can We Fix It?)”

The event is part of Berea College’s  2007-08 Convocation Series and is the Begley-Van Cleve Lecture co-sponsored by the Political Science Department at Berea.  Admission is free and open to the public.

At Harvard, Dr. Walt is the Robert and Rene Belfer Professor of International Relations and the former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government.  He has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1999.  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 served as a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University.  He holds a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

He presently serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and Journal of Cold War Studies, and he also serves as Co-Editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press.

Professor Walt is the author of The Origins of Alliances (1987), which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award. He is also the author of Revolution and War (1996), Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (2005), and, with co-author J.J. Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby (2007).

The Begley-Van Cleve Lectureship was established by Dr. Roy R. Ray in memory of his sisters, Edna Ray Begley and Faye Ray Van Cleve, to bring to Berea’s campus scholars who have distinguished themselves in the study of American politics or in some aspect of the American political system.

CONTACT:

Dr. A.H. Rifai, Dept. of Political Science Tel:(859) 985-3356