Democracy and Governance Studies

Dr. Kupchan 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, and the Centre d'Etude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris; he is currently a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. 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.