Walter Russell Mead
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Walter Russell Mead (born 12 June, 1952, Columbia, South Carolina) is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the country's leading students of American foreign policy. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Yale University, but never went to graduate school, though he took several courses which helped expand his intellect as well as understanding of politics and the dynamics of American Foreign Policy. He is also an honors graduate of Groton and Yale Universities, where he received prizes for history, debate, and the translation of New Testament in Ancient Greek.
In 2001, Mead published "Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World". It won the Lionel Gelber Award for the best book in English on International Relations in 2002. The Italian translation won the Premio Acqui Storia awarded to the most important historical book published. "Special Providence" describes the four main guiding philosophies which have influenced (and still do) the formation of American Foreign policy in history. These schools are: the Hamiltonians, the Wilsonians, the Jeffersonians and the Jacksonians.
Walter Mead is currently working on a book discussing the influence of religion on the American foreign policy. The book is tentatively titled Is God on Our Side?
Mr. Mead regularly writes for several journals, magazines and newspapers such as Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, and Wall Street Journal. He is currently on the staff of Foreign Affairs as a book reviewer and on the editorial board of The American Interest.
In addition to his position at the Council, Walter Mead currently teaches American Foreign policy (past and present) at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY).
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