“The American Way of Foreign Policy: Ideology, Economics, Democracy”
Dr. Michael Mandelbaum
Johns Hopkins University
Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American
Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Studies in Washington, D.C. He has also taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities
and at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and served as Senior Fellow at
the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
A contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post,
The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, and The London Observer, Professor
Mandelbaum served for 23 years as the associate director of the Aspen Institute
Congressional Project on American Relations With the Former Communist World. He
serves on the Board of Advisors of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a
Washington-based organization sponsoring research and public discussion on
American policy toward the Middle East.
Born in 1946, Professor Mandelbaum is a graduate of Yale College. He earned
his Master’s degree at King’s College, Cambridge University and his doctorate at
Harvard University.
Professor Mandelbaum is the author or co-author of numerous articles and
essays and of nineteen books: The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear
Weapons 1946-1976 (1979); The Nuclear Revolution: International Politics Before and
After Hiroshima (1981); The Nuclear Future (1983); Reagan and Gorbachev (with
Strobe Talbott, 1987); The Global Rivals (with Seweryn Bialer, 1988); The Fate of
Nations: The Search For National Security in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1988); and
The Dawn of Peace in Europe (1996); The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace,
Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century (2002); The Meaning of
Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football and Basketball and What They See
When They Do (2004); The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As the World’s
Government in the Twenty-first Century (2006); Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise
and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government (2007); The Frugal
Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era (2010) ; That Used
To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come
Back, (with Thomas L. Friedman, 2011); The Road to Global Prosperity ( 2014);
Mission Failure: American and the World in the Post-Cold War Era (2016); The Rise
and Fall of Peace on Earth (2019); The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak
Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower (2022); and The Titans of the Twentieth
Century: How They Made History and the History They Made (2024); The American
Way of Foreign Policy: Ideology, Economics, Democracy (2026). He is also the editor
of twelve books.