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Christian Herter Professor, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (1990-present); faculty member at Harvard University, Columbia University, and the U.S. Naval Academy (1975-1990).
Selected Publications:The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century (PublicAffairs, 2002); The Dawn of Peace in Europe (Twentieth Century Fund, 1996); The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 1988); The Global Rivals (co-author) (Knopf, 1988); Reagan and Gorbachev (co-author) (Vintage Books, 1987); The Nuclear Future (Cornell University Press, 1983); The Nuclear Revolution: International Politics Before and After Hiroshima (Cambridge University Press, 1981); The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1946-1976 (Cambridge University Press, 1979).The New European Diasporas (editor, 2000); The New Russian Foreign Policy (editor, 1998); The Social Safety Net in Postcommunist Europe (co-editor, 1997); Postcommunism: Four Perspectives (editor, 1996); The Strategic Quadrangle: Russia, China, Japan, and the United States in East Asia (editor, 1995); Central Asia and the World (editor, 1994); Making Markets: Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet States (co-editor, 1993); The Rise of Nations in the Soviet Union (editor, 1991); Western Approaches to the Soviet Union (editor, 1988).
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February 27, 2008
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Watch Michael Mandelbaum, the Christian Herter professor at the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies, discuss his book, Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government.
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February 27, 2008
Audio
Listen to Michael Mandelbaum, the Christian Herter professor at the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies, discuss his book, Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government.
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September/October 2007
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Despite the failure of U.S. democracy-promotion efforts, democracy is spreading across the globe, bolstered by the free market. Although the Arab world, China, and Russia present challenges, pressure for democratic governance will only grow as economies liberalize in the years to come.
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October 25, 2006
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the social, political, and economic implications of the U.S. population surpassing 300 million.
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March 7, 2006
Transcript
Professor Michael Mandelbaum discusses his book, The Case for Goliath, in which he explains how the United States uses its enormous power to provide the world with the services of a government. The U.S. plays this role with the tacit consent of many of its critics, he says.
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June 26, 2003
Op-Ed
Newsday
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May 15, 2003
Op-Ed
Newsday
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April 28, 2003
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December 31, 2002
Interview
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