- Kofi Annan
Annan must also be commended for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and for his sustained advocacy to increase access to drugs and diagnostics for poor people especially in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. The United Nations and Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2001, one of the highest accolades he had received during his career as secretary-general.
- Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945-1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In domestic affairs, Truman faced challenge after challenge: a tumultuous reconversion of the economy marked by severe shortages, numerous strikes, and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over his veto. After confounding all predictions to win re-election in 1948, …
- Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Ashby Johnson is an author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia. He has written numerous books including, most recently, three examinations of the consequences of American Empire, " Blowback", "The Sorrows of Empire", and "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic".
- Joseph Nye
Dr. Joseph Nye Jr.is the Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, winning two Distinguished Service medals, and the chair of the National Intelligence Council. Dr. Nye joined the Harvard faculty in 1964, serving as director of the Center for International Affairs and associate dean of Arts and Sciences.
- David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller, Sr. is a prominent American banker, philanthropist, world statesman, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child and grandchild, respectively, of the prominent philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the billionaire oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five deceased siblings are: Abby, John D. III, Nelson, Laurance and Winthrop.
- John Ikenberry
John Ikenberry is a prominent theorist of international relations and United States foreign policy, and a professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
- Kenneth Waltz
Kenneth Neal Waltz (born 1924) is a member of the faculty at Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars of international relations (IR) alive today. He is one of the founders of neorealism, or structural realism, in international relations theory.
- Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy CBE (born 1945) is a British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy. He has published books on the history of the Royal Navy, Great Power struggles, the Pacific War and many others.
- Robert Keohane
Robert O. Keohane (born 1941) is an American academic and international relations theorist. Keohane helped develop the neoliberal strand of international relations. He is currently a Professor of International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
- Steve Smith
Professor Steve Smith, MSc, PhD, AcSS, (born 1952-02-04), is a prominent international relations theorist and senior university manager. In 2002 he succeeded Geoffrey Holland as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter, and since 2006 has been Chair of the Board of the 1994 Group. Steve Smith has a BSc in Politics and International Studies, an MSc in International Studies and a PhD in International Relations, all from the University of Southampton.
- Manouchehr Mottaki
Manouchehr Mottaki is the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During the 2005 presidential election, he was the campaign manager of Ali Larijani, the right-conservative candidate. Mottaki holds a master's degree in international relations from the University of Tehran and a bachelor's degree from Bangalore University in India. Before becoming a minister in Ahmadinejad's cabinet, he served as Ambassador to Turkey and Japan.
- Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich is a former US Army Colonel and is now a Professor of International Relations at Boston University. He says that a dangerous obsession has taken hold of Americans; it's a marriage of idealism and awesome military strength, and this has led to the belief that the military is the short and simple solution to the World's problems. His book is called "The New American Militarism, How Americans are seduced by War".
- Robert Jervis
Robert Jervis (born 1940) is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University and one of the most influential scholars of international relations.
- Fred Kaplan
Fred Kaplan is a journalist and contributor to "Slate" magazine. His "War Stories" column covers international relations and US foreign policy, with a particular focus on the Bush Administration and major related geopolitical issues.
- David Held
David Held (born 1951) is a British political theorist and a prominent figure within the field of international relations. Together with Daniele Archibugi, he has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitanism, and is a widely acclaimed scholar on issues of globalisation. Held is currently Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics.
- Hans Morgenthau
Hans Joachim Morgenthau was an International Relations theorist and one of the most influential to date. He was born in Coburg, Germany, and educated at the universities of Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich. He taught and practiced law in Frankfurt before fleeing to the United States in 1937 as the Nazis came to power in Germany. His experiences with Nazism seem to have influenced his later IR work, where he argued passionately in favor of a more scientific approach to politics, …
- Alexander Wendt
Alexander Wendt is one of the core social constructivist scholars in the field of international relations. Wendt and scholars such as Nicholas Onuf, Peter J. Katzenstein, Michael Barnett, Kathryn Sikkink, John Ruggie, Martha Finnemore, and others have, within a relatively short period of time, established constructivism as one of the major schools of thought in the field. In a recent survey Wendt was listed as one of the most influential scholars of international relations.
- Thaksin Shinawatra
Thai businessman and politician, is the former Prime Minister of Thailand, the former leader of the populist Thai Rak Thai party, and current owner of the Manchester City Football Club. Thaksin is wanted back in Thailand to face criminal charges of abuse of power and corruption during his reign as Prime Minister. Thaksin started his career in the Thai Police, and later became a successful entrepreneur, establishing Shin Corporation and Advanced Info Service, …
- Hedley Bull
Hedley Bull was Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Oxford until his death in 1985. "The Anarchical Society" (1977) is his main work: it is widely regarded as a textbook in the field of international relations and is also seen as the central text in the so-called ‘English School’ of international relations.
- Barry Buzan
Barry Buzan is a Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published and broadcast extensively in the field of international relations. He defines his interests as: #the conceptual and regional aspects of international security; #international history, and the evolution of the international system since prehistory; #international relations theory, …
- Fred Halliday
Fred Halliday, academic and author, is a British academic specialist on the Middle East and international relations, with particular reference to Iran. Fred Halliday was born in Dublin (?Dundalk), Ireland, in 1946. He studied at Queen's College, Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the LSE in London. Halliday's PhD was on South Yemen, and despite his prolific output it famously took him 17 years to complete and then publish (Sale, 2002).
- Robert Gilpin
Robert Gilpin is a scholar of international political economy and the professor emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is holding the Eisenhower professorship. Gilpin specializes in political economy and international relations, especially the effect of multinational corporations on state autonomy.
- Husain Haqqani
Husain Haqqani is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. He is a syndicated columnist for The Indian Express and The Nation (of Pakistan) and serves as chairman of Communications Research Strategies, a Pakistani consulting company. Mr. Haqqani's journalism career includes work as East Asian correspondent for Arabia - The Islamic World Review and Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review .
- E. H. Carr
Edward Hallett Carr was a British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and fierce opponent of empiricism within historiography.
- Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart (born 1971) is a journalist and editor-at-large for "The New Republic", having served as editor of TNR from November 1999 until March 2006. He is a graduate of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and a member of the class of 1993 at Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union.
- Joshua Muravchik
Mr. Muravchik is a resident scholar at AEI who studies the United Nations, neoconservatism, the history of socialism and communism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, global democracy, terrorism, and the Bush Doctrine. In March 2007, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appointed Mr. Muravchik to serve on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion.
- Michael Cox
Michael Cox is a British academic and international relations scholar. He is currently a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is Co-Director of the Cold War Studies Centre (CWSC). Cox has taught at Queen's University Belfast (1972-1995), California State University at San Diego (1986), the College of William and Mary in Virginia (1987-1989), the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1995-2001), …
- Peter J. Katzenstein
Peter Katzenstein (b. February 17, 1945) is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He was educated in his native Germany. Katzenstein has received degrees from the London School of Economics, Swarthmore College, as well as a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Recently, Katzenstein was ranked by "The Economist" as the most influential scholar in international political economy.
- Michael McFaul
Michael A. McFaul (born 1965 in Montana) is a professor of Political Science and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He earned his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Slavic and East European Studies from Stanford in 1986. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he completed his Ph.D. in International Relations in 1991. He is an advisor on matters of democracy and Russia.
- Stephen D. Krasner
Stephen Krasner 's research interests include market failure and distributional conflict in international political economy and the historical practices of sovereignty, especially with regard to domestic autonomy, state building and non-intervention. In 2002 he served as Director for Governance and Development at the National Security Council where he worked on the Millennium Challenge Account, a new foreign assistance program.
- James N Rosenau
James N Rosenau is a politics scholar, specialized in the dynamics of world politics, international relations, and globalization. He has held the office of President of the International Studies Association, and remains active in said association. Rosenau has written 35 books, the most known being "Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity" (Princeton, …
- Michael Doyle
Michael W. Doyle (born 1948) is an international relations scholar whose most influential work is "Empires," an analysis of imperialism. In this work, he differentiates between different forms of empire and also provides case studies of historical empires, including the Roman Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire, and Egyptian empire. He also wrote "Ways of War and Peace" in 1997.
- John Mueller
John E. Mueller (born 1937, Saint Paul, Minnesota) is a political scientist in the field of international relations as well as a scholar of the history of dance. He is recognized for his ideas concerning "the banality of ethnic war" and the theory that major world conflicts are quickly becoming obsolete.
- Daniel Yergin
Daniel H. Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Born in Los Angeles, California to a "Chicago Tribune" reporter father and a mother who was a sculptor and painter, Yergin received his B.A. from Yale University in 1968, where he served on the board of the "Yale Daily News", and was a founder of "The New Journal".
- Andrew Hurrell
Andrew Hurrell is a Faculty Fellow in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford and Director of the Centre for International Studies at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Centre for International Studies of the University of Oxford. Previously, Dr. Hurrell taught at New York University. Hurrell is an expert on Brazil and has authored a large number of works on Latin American politics.
- Andrew Linklater
Andrew Linklater, MA, PhD, is a renowned international relations academic, and is the current Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 2000, he was featured as one of the fifty thinkers in Martin Griffiths' "Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations".
- Cynthia Enloe
Cynthia Enloe is a feminist writer and professor whose many publications have contributed to current understanding of gender issues and the circumstances of women throughout the world today and historically. Born in 1938, Cynthia Enloe spent her early life on Long Island in a New York suburb. After completing her undergraduate education at Connecticut College in 1960 (which, …
- Stephen van Evera
Stephen Van Evera is a professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in International Relations. His research includes the U.S. foreign and national security policy and causes and prevention of war.
- Shaha Riza
Shaha Ali Riza, (born 1953 or 1954), is a World Bank staffer who is currently on external assignment. She was forced to leave her position as Senior Communications Officer (and acting manager of external affairs) for the Middle East and North Africa Regional Office at the World Bank when Paul Wolfowitz was brought in as President.
- Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw (born at Driffield, Yorkshire, on June 30, 1947) has been professor of international relations and politics at the University of Sussex since 1995. Best known for his sociological work on war, genocide and global politics, his work has also had a consistent political content. In his Marxist period in the 1970s, Shaw published Marxism versus Sociology: A Guide to Reading (1974) and Marxism and Social Science: The Roots of Social Science (1975).