1 Jeremi Suri Department of History Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 (512) 232-3989 [email protected] http://jeremisuri.net Current Position: Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs Professor, Department of History Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Senior Fellow, Provost’s Teaching Fellows Faculty Fellow, William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security Distinguished Scholar, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law University of Texas at Austin. Previous Employment: E. Gordon Fox Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009 to 2011. Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007-2009. Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005-2007. Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001-2005. Education: Yale University, Ph.D. in history, 2001. Dissertation: “Convergent Responses to Disorder: Cultural Revolution and Détente among the Great Powers during the 1960s.” Recipient of the John Addison Porter Prize for the best dissertation in the humanities. Recipient of the Hans Gatzke Prize for the best dissertation in international history. Ohio University, M.A. in history, 1996. Completed M.A. thesis with distinction: “Cold War Legitimacy in Crisis: An International History of Détente.” Stanford University, A.B. in history with highest honors and university distinction, 1994. Book Publications: The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office (New York: Basic Books, 2017). See: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeremi-suri/the-impossible-presidency/9780465051731. Reviewed widely, including: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times, Dallas Morning News, American Interest, Nation. Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy co-edited with Benjamin Valentino (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). Includes a co-written introduction, a co-written conclusion, and my original single-authored chapter: “State Finance and National Power: Great Britain, China, and the United States in Historical Perspective.” The chapters from the book are available at: http://tobinproject.org/books-papers/sustainable-security#overlay-context Last update 12/23/18 2 The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft, co-edited with Hal Brands (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2015). See: http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2015/the-power-of-the-past Includes a co-written introduction and my original single-authored chapter: “Henry Kissinger, the Study of History, and the Modern Statesman.” Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy, co-edited with Robert Hutchings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). See: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/foreign-policy-breakthroughs-9780190226121?cc=us&lang=en Includes a co-written introduction, a co-written conclusion, and my original single-authored chapter: “From Isolation to Engagement: American Diplomacy and the Opening to China, 1969-1972.” Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama (New York: Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2011, paperback 2012). See: http://nation-building.jeremisuri.net Featured excerpt published by Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/books/history/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2011/09/22/nation_building_excerpt Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007, paperback 2009). See: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SURHEN.html Chinese Language Edition of Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Beijing: Commercial Press, 2009). Selected as one of the Chicago Tribune’s “Favorite Books of 2007.” The Global Revolutions of 1968 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007). See: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=10225 Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003, paperback 2005). See: www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SURPOW.html Arabic Language Edition of Power and Protest (Beirut: Al Hiwar Athaqafi, 2005). Indian Edition of Power and Protest (New Delhi: Viva Books Private Limited, 2005). Recipient of the 2003 Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award. American Foreign Relations since 1898: A Documentary Reader (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). See: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405184477.html The Twentieth Century: The United States and the World, 1898-1991 Annotated document reader with additional materials (including recorded lectures) for teachers. (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2014). Articles and Book Chapters: “George Kennan: American Machiavelli,” in Michael Kimmage, ed., George Kennan and American Foreign Policy (forthcoming, 2019), approx. 25 pages. “Worse than Watergate: The Scandals of Ronald Reagan’s Presidency,” in James M. Banner, Jr. and C. Vann Woodward, Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct, revised and expanded edition (New York: New Press, forthcoming, 2019), approx. 20 pages. Last update 12/23/18 3 “On the State and Future of U.S. Politics,” Global Brief Magazine (Winter 2019), 34-37. http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2018/04/27/on-the-state-and-future-of-us-politics-2/ “American Pressure Against ‘Revisionist’ Russia and China,” Instituto Per Gli Studi Di Politica Internazionale (21 December 2018). https://www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicazione/american-pressure-against-revisionist-russia- and-china-21830. “Globalism Helped Make America Great,” New Republic (26 September 2018). https://newrepublic.com/article/151404/globalism-helped-make-america-great. “Nixon and Détente,” Diplomatic History 42 (September 2018), 544-47. http://jeremisuri.net/doc/2009/03/Nixon-and-Brezhnev-DH-Sept-2018.pdf “Foreign Collusion is as American as Apple Pie,” Foreign Policy (28 August 2018). https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/28/foreign-collusion-is-as-american-as-apple-pie/ “The Obama Presidency and the Limits of Incrementalism,” Foreign Policy (12 June 2018). https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/13/ben-rhodes-led-from-behind-in-life/ “Why the U.S. is Abdicating its Historical Role in Asia,” Instituto Per Gli Studi Di Politica Internazionale (10 June 2018). https://www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicazione/beyond-singapore-why-united-states-abdicating-its- historical-role-asia-20754. “Trump is Repeating the German Monarch’s Blundering Before World War I,” Foreign Policy (29 May 2018). https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/29/trumps-kaiser-wilhelm-approach-to-diplomacy/. “Trump’s Terrifying Treaty of Versailles Precedent,” Foreign Policy (10 May 2018). https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/10/trumps-terrifying-treaty-of-versailles-precedent/. “The Presidency is Too Big to Succeed,” Atlantic (9 May 2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/the-real-reason-the-presidency-is-impossible/559877/. “Historical Lessons for Presidential Meetings with Foreign Leaders,” Foreign Policy (22 March 2018). https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/22/heres-hoping-trump-kim-isnt-like-kennedy-khrushchev. “Liberal Internationalism, Law, and the First African-American President,” in Julian Zelizer, ed., The Obama Presidency: An Early Historical Assessment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), 195-211. “It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid: Bill Clinton’s Distracted First-Year Foreign Policy,” in Michael Nelson, Jeffrey L. Chidester, and Stefanie Georgakis Abbott, eds., Crucible: The President’s First Year (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018), 117-21. “What’s a Nuclear Hotline Good For Anyway?” Foreign Policy (9 January 2018). https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/09/whats-a-nuclear-hotline-good-for-anyway. “Whither the U.S. Over the Next Five Years,” Global Brief Magazine (Winter 2018), 24-28. http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2017/11/29/whither-the-us-over-the-next-five-years/ “What’s Wrong With The American Presidency?” Extended Interview in The Progressive (23 January 2018). http://progressive.org/dispatches/the-incapable-president-meets-the-impossible-presidency-180122. Last update 12/23/18 4 “The Making of an Effective Diplomat: A Global View,” with Robert Hutchings, Foreign Service Journal (December 2017), 22-29. http://www.afsa.org/making-effective-diplomat-global-view. “The U.S. Presidency Has Become an Impossible Job. Here are Three Ideas to Fix It.” Ted.com (19 October 2017). https://ideas.ted.com/the-us-presidency-has-become-an-impossible-job-here-are-three-intriguing-ideas- to-fix-it. “Donald Trump and the ‘Madman’ Playbook,” Wired Magazine (8 October 2017). https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-madman-strategy-north-korea-nuclear-weapons. “The Wisdom of Limited Power: How to Fix the ‘Impossible Presidency,’” War on the Rocks (11 September 2017). https://warontherocks.com/2017/09/the-wisdom-of-limited-power-how-to-fix-the-impossible-presidency. “The Guns of August ‘Locked and Loaded,’” American Prospect (16 August 2017). http://prospect.org/article/guns-august-locked-and-loaded. “The Strange Career of Nation-Building as a Concept in U.S. Foreign Policy,” in Jean-François Drolet and James Dunkerley, eds., American Foreign Policy: Studies in Intellectual History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), 33-45. “A Depressed and Self-Destructive President: Richard Nixon in the White House,” in Jeffrey Engel and Thomas Knock, eds., When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 233-55. “How