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Charles A. Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Kupchan has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, Columbia University's Institute of War and Peace Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI) in Paris; he is currently a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Dr. Kupchan was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council (NSC) during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the US 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 Persian Gulf and the West (1987), The Vulnerability of Empire (1994), Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (1995), Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998), Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999), Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (2002), How Enemies Become Friends: The Source of Stable Peace (2010) and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs.