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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: Modern Diplomacy in Practice, co-edited with Robert Hutchings (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Includes my original introduction and four original co-written chapters. See: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030269357#otherversion=9783030269333. 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. Selected as New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Reviewed widely, including: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times, Dallas Morning News, American Interest, Nation, Survival, the Progressive, etc. Last update 6/22/21 2 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 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). Last update 6/22/21 3 Weekly Podcast “This is Democracy” iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-democracy/id1420520464?mt=2 Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ixlrfhufiny2ektnxkmnysz53qm Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-university-of-texas/this-is-democracy?refid=stpr. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/74uvnTunQ99acjKvCvQmCp. Articles and Book Chapters: “Nation-Building as Applied History: Lessons from the United States in Afghanistan,” in Robert Crowcroft, ed., Applied History and Contemporary Policy-Making (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022), approx. 25 pages. “Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in Christopher Nichols and David Milne, eds., Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2022), approx. 20 pages. “Foreign Policy Pragmatism Is Back, And So Are Its Flaws,” Foreign Policy (3 February 2021). https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/03/foreign-policy-pragmatism-is-back-so-are-its-flaws/. “Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair,” American Heritage Magazine 66 (February 2021). https://www.americanheritage.com/reagan-and-iran-contra-affair#1. “Elite Universities Have Promoted Destructive Republican Leaders,” The Constitutionalist (12 January 2021). https://theconstitutionalist.org/2021/01/12/elite-universities-have-promoted-destructive-republican-leaders-by- jeremi-suri/. Republished by the London School of Economics, Phelan US Centre: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2021/01/29/long-read-how-elite-universities-have-promoted-destructive- republican-leaders/. “Historical Thinking for Resilient Leaders,” in Steven Pedigo, ed., Resiliency in the Age of COVID-19 (Austin, Texas: LBJ School, 2020). http://jeremisuri.net/doc/2009/03/Historical-Thinking-Resilient-Leaders- Pub-7-Dec-2020.pdf. Reprinted in Government Executive Magazine (10 December 2020). https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/12/historical-thinking-resilient-leaders/170669/. “Get Ready for a November Foreign-Policy Surprise,” Foreign Policy (2 November 2020). https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/02/get-ready-for-a-november-foreign-policy-surprise/. “The Dangerous Interregnum,” with Jeffrey Tulis, The Bulwark (2 November 2020). https://thebulwark.com/the-dangerous-interregnum/. Republished by the London School of Economics, Phelan US Centre: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2020/11/03/how-a-lame-duck-trump-could-imperil-the-united-states-and- what-congress-can-do-to-stop-him/. “Who Is In Control? Hospitalized Presidents Who Don’t Enact the 25th Amendment,” Perspectives on History (5 October 2020). https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/october- 2020/who-is-in-control-hospitalized-presidents-who-dont-enact-the-25th-amendment. “What ‘American Century’? The Past and Future of American Foreign Policy,” Foreign Policy (17 July 2020). http://jeremisuri.net/doc/2009/03/What-American-Century-FP-17-July-2020.pdf. Last update 6/22/21 4 “Remaking the Presidency After Trump,” in David W. Orr, Andrew Gumbel, Bakari Kitwana, and William S. Becker, eds., Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People (New York: New Press, 2020), 87-97. http://jeremisuri.net/doc/2009/03/Remaking-the-Presidency-published-Feb-2020.pdf “After Disaster: History and Renewal in the Modern City,” with Alison Alter, Urbanitus (5 May 2020). https://www.urbanitus.com/after-disaster-history-and-renewal-in-the-modern-city/. “George Kennan: American Machiavelli,” in Michael Kimmage and Matthew Rojansky, eds., A Kennan For Our Times: Revisiting America’s Greatest 20th Century Diplomat in the 21st Century (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2019), 54-71. http://jeremisuri.net/doc/2009/03/Kennan-article-published-version-28-Nov-2019.pdf. “The Cost of Victory in World War II,” in Liberation and Legacy (New Orleans: National World War II Museum, 2019), 26-29. http://jeremisuri.net/doc/2009/03/Costs-of-Victory-WWII-Museum-Volume-3-Sept-20191.pdf “Worse than Watergate: The Scandals of Ronald Reagan’s Presidency,” in James M. Banner, Jr. and C. Vann Woodward, eds., Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today, revised and expanded edition (New York: New Press, 2019), 405-19. http://jeremisuri.net/doc/2009/03/Reagan-Misconduct-published-6-June-2019.pdf “The Long Rise and Sudden Fall of American Diplomacy,” Foreign Policy (17 April 2019). https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/17/the-long-rise-and-sudden-fall-of-american-diplomacy. “Congress and American Foreign Policy,” Foreign Policy (20