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Ronald Tiersky
Ronald Tiersky is the Joseph B. Eastman Professor of
Political Science Emeritus at
Amherst College ,
Amherst, Massachusetts .
[1]
Career
Tiersky taught political science and European Studies at Amherst for four decades.
[2] During 1980-82 he was Director of the
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies center in
Bologna, Italy .
[3] He was associated over the years with the Paris Centre d’études des relations internationales (CERI).
Tiersky is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations ,
[4] and he is the founding editor and general editor of the "Europe Today" series at
Rowman & Littlefield publishers.
[5]
Early life and education
Raised in
Chicago, IL , Tiersky did his B.A. at the
University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) in history. He did his M.A. (1971) and Ph, D. (1972), in Political Science, at
Columbia University .
He lived in
Paris, France 1969-1973 researching his dissertation and first book, on the French Communist Party, where his mentors were Profs.
Raymond Aron ,
Pierre Hassner , and
Annie Kriegel .
Bibliography
Tiersky has written widely on European politics, American foreign policy and international politics.
Books authored
‘’French Communism, 1920-1972’’ (Columbia University Press, 1974)
‘’Ordinary Stalinism’’ - Allen & Unwin (1985)
‘’France in the New Europe’’ (Wadsworth Pubs., 1994)
‘’Euro-skepticism’’ (ed., Rowman & Littlefield Pubs. 2001)
‘’Francois Mitterrand: a very French President’’ (Rowman & Littlefield Pubs., 2nd rev. ed., 2003)
‘’Europe: a year of living dangerously’’ (with Alex Tiersky, Foreign Policy Association, 2004)
‘’European Foreign Policies’’ (ed., with John Van Oudenaren, 2010) Rowman & Littlefield Pubs
Books edited
His articles and editorials have appeared in
Foreign Affairs ,
[6]
The New York Times ,
[7] the
New York Review of Books ,
[8] the
International Herald Tribune ,
Le Monde ,
[9]
Le Point ,
Libération ,
[10] and
RealClearWorld .
[11]
References
^
"Tiersky, Ronald S. | Faculty & Staff | Amherst College" . www.amherst.edu .
^ Amherst College catalogs, 1973-74 and 2013-2014
^ Johns Hopkins SAIS catalogs, 1980-82 and Johns Hopkins Bologna Center Catalogs, 1980-82
^ CFR Membership Directory
^ Europe Today, Fifth ed., 2015
^
"Ronald Tiersky" . Foreign Affairs . 28 January 2009.
^ Tiersky, Ronald (11 October 1985).
"Opinion | The Decline Of Communism" – via NYTimes.com.
^ Tiersky, Ronald; Mailer, Norman.
"Bush & Terror: An Exchange with Norman Mailer | by Norman Mailer | The New York Review of Books" – via www.nybooks.com.
^
"Un point de non-retour, par Ronald Tiersky" . 12 September 2001 – via Le Monde.
^ TIERSKY, Ronald.
"L'essentiel du Mitterrand existentiel" . Libération .
^
"RCW Search Page" . www.realclearworld.com .
External links
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