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Simon Serfaty

Simon serfaty

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Dr. Serfaty is Senior Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy with the Graduate Program in International Studies at Old Dominion University. He teaches graduate seminars in U.S. foreign policy, European politics, and Euro-Atlantic relations. In May 2001, Dr. Serfaty was named Eminent Scholar of the University. Dr. Serfaty also serves as a Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic &; International Studies (CSIS), where he directed the Center's Europe Program for 10 years before becoming, in 2003, the first holder of the prestigious Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geopolitical Studies. His other teaching appointments have included UCLA (1968-72) and SAIS (1972-1993) where he served as director of the Johns Hopkins Center in Bologna, Italy (1972-76) and Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute (1985-92). Serfaty has also taught at UVA, the University of Paris (Paris-XI), and the College of Europe in Bruges, among other teaching assignments.

Dr. Serfaty is the author of a large number of books and monographs and a contributor in many anthologies. His most recent books are Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War (University of Pennsylvania Press, December 2007) and The Vital Partnership: Power and Order (Rowman &; Littlefield, June 2005). Other recent books include La tentation impériale (2004), Memories of Europe's Future: Farewell to Yesteryear (1999), Stay the Course (1997), and Taking Europe Seriously (1992), among many others. Books edited by Dr. Serfaty include, most recently, A Recast Europe? The Institutional Dimensions of Transatlantic Relations (January 2008), Visions of the Atlantic Alliance (2005), Visions of America and Europe (2004) and The European Finality Debate and its National Dimensions (2003). He has published a very large number of articles and essays in leading professional journals in the United States and abroad, including many peer-refereed journals like Foreign Policy, Studies in Comparative Communism, The Washington Quarterly, Middle East Journal, World Today, Orbis, Survival, Brown Journal of World Affairs, and others in the United States, and Politique Internationale, Politique Étrangère, Géopolitique, Revue Internationale et Stratégique, Revue Française de Géoéconomie (France); Meridiano Ceri (Spain); Liberal (Germany); LiMes and Il Mulino (Italy), South Africa International, and others.

A member or convener of numerous U.S. and transatlantic Working Groups, Serfaty has been invited as a guest speaker, keynoter, discussant, panelist, and chair to a very large number of conferences and roundtables in the United States and about 50 countries abroad.

Dr. Serfaty has also been as an expert witness for the U.S. Congress and occasional consultant to the U.S. government. He has been a frequent guest speaker on television and radio programs in North America, Western Europe, and Africa. He has contributed to leading newspapers in the US and Europe.

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