Robert D. English

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Robert David English (born 1958) is an American academic, author, historian, and international relations scholar who specializes in the history and politics of contemporary Eastern Europe, the USSR, and

University of Southern California School of International Relations
.

Early life

Born in 1958, he received a B.A. in history from the

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University in 1995.[1] As part of his doctorate, English completed a Ph.D. dissertation titled "Russia views the West: the intellectual and political origins of Soviet new thinking."[2]

Career

He worked in the

Bologna Center in the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Relations before he became assistant professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California.[1]

In addition, he has received fellowships from places like the Institute for Advanced Study; the Princeton Society of Fellows; the U.S. Fund for Peace; the International Research & Exchanges Board; and the Ford Foundation, where he has a "'Dual Expertise Fellowship' in Soviet/East European and national security affairs."[1]

Author

He wrote parts of Rebirth: A Political History of Europe Since World War II with

Jack F. Matlock, Jr. and Elizabeth Tucker, which is the account of Anatoly S. Chernyaev's time as an aide to Mikhail Gorbachev.[1]

His most notable work is Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the

Brezhnev
, and Gorbachev.

He is working on a "book-length study," to be called Our

William C. Wohlforth, Witnesses to the End of the Cold War: Oral History, Analysis, Debates.[1]

Recognition

In 1996, English won the Harold D. Lasswell Prize from the American Political Science Association for the work that he later used in writing Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War.

In 2001, he received the

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Robert D. English's Biography on the University of Southern California Website[dead link]
  2. ^ English, Robert (1995). Russia views the West : the intellectual and political origins of Soviet new thinking.

Further reading

  • Black, C. E., English, R. D., Helmreich, J. E., McAdams, A. J., Rebirth: A Political History of Europe Since World War II, 1999 (Westview Press Inc.)
  • Chernyaev, A. S., English, R. D., Matlock, J. F. Jr., Tucker, E., My Six Years With Gorbachev: Notes from a Diary, 2000 (Penn State University Press)
  • English, R. D., Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War, 2000 (Columbia University Press)