Staying Power and the Future of the American Era

Robert J. Lieber is Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University, where he has previously served as Chair of the Government Department and Interim Chair of  Psychology. He is an authority on American foreign policy and U.S. relations with the Middle East and Europe. He was born and raised in Chicago, received his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. at Harvard. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has also taught at Harvard, Oxford and the University of California, Davis, and has been Visiting Fellow at the Atlantic Institute in Paris, the Brookings Institution in Washington, and Fudan University in Shanghai.

Professor Lieber is now writing a book entitled, Staying Power and the Future of the American Era. His most recent authored book is The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century, published by Cambridge University Press (2007) and available in an expanded paperback edition. As one reviewer has described it, "This may be the best book on American foreign policy written since September 11." In addition, Lieber is author or editor of fourteen other books on international relations, U.S. foreign policy, and energy security.

Professor Robert J. Lieber

The lecture is hosted by the Center for North American Studies at the University of Tampere.

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Touko Berry
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