Ronald Tiersky
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Ronald Tiersky is the Joseph B. Eastman Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.[1]
Career[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "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.
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