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The big foreign policy test may be Afghanistan, but there are plenty of other challenges to keep the President up at night: the spread of nuclear weapons, the resurgence of Al-Qaeda, the rise of China, and the continued search for peace in the Middle East. How is Obama expected to tackle these and other issues? Will his new soft-power approach become an effective new policy?
Charles Lipson is an award-winning analyst and teacher of international politics and history at the University of Chicago, where he is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science. He also founded and directs the University’s Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security (PIPES), where scholars from around the world come to discuss the latest issues in world politics. He is one of the most popular lecturer’s on campus.
Doctor Lipson graduated from Yale College and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. His many publications include books on why constitutional democracies do not fight wars with each other, on how corporations try to protect their international investments, and on how nations design international institutions. He is currently working on the difficulty of creating and sustaining order in international affairs.
Besides his academic work, he writes opinion pieces for the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and other publications and is a frequent guest on national radio and television. Professor Lipson also writes about education and academic integrity. His book, Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success (2004), is the first book for students to deal comprehensively with these issues. |
