Hope Harrison

Professor of International Affairs. Professor Harrison published a prize- winning book in 2003 on the East German and Soviet decision to build the Berlin Wall. She is fluent in Russia and German and has worked extensively in archives in Moscow and Berlin on this topic. Her current research examines how the post-1990 united Germany has been dealing with the East German communist past. Professor Harrison's broader research interests are Soviet and Russian foreign policy decision making, the two Germanys in the Cold War, how countries deal with difficult aspects of their past (such as through war crimes tribunals, truth commissions, or memorials), and the interaction between history and politics.

Hugh L. Agnew

Professor of History and International Affairs, as well as the Associate Dean of Faculty and Student Affairs. Professor Agnew came to GW in 1988, after teaching at Queen's and the National University of Singapore. Agnew teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Eastern Europe and the European history survey. He focuses on nationalism in the region, especially Czech nationalism. He has appeared on international and local media including CNN, C-SPAN, Voice of America's Czech service, and Radio Prague.

Gregg Brazinsky

Assistant Director of History and International Affairs. Gregg Brazinsky is a specialist on U.S.-East Asian relations during the Cold War. His work focuses on the social and cultural impact of the United States on East Asia. Professor Brazinsky's first book, Negotiating Nation Building: Koreans, Americans and the Making of Modern South Korea, will appear in the fall of 2007. Professor Brazinsky is now pursuing research on several other projects. One such project is a study of the cultural impact of the Korean War in America, Korea, and China. Another is a comparative study of American nation building programs in East and Southeast Asia during the Cold War.

Michael Brown

Dean of Elliott School of International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs and Political Science. Professor Brown has specialties in International security, conflict and conflict resolution, U.S. foreign and defense policy. Prior to joining the GW community, Professor Brown was on the faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 2000 to 2005, he served as Director of Georgetown's Center for Peace and Security Studies and Director of the M.A. program in Security Studies. Professor Brown has written many different books involving his expertise and his current project is a book on dynamics of ethnic conflicts.

Henry Nau

Professor of International Affairs and Political Science. Dr. Nau is also the director of the U.S.-Japan Economic Agenda and the U.S.-Japan Legislative Exchange Program. From January 1981 to July 1983, Dr. Nau served as a senior staff member of the National Security Council in the White House responsible for international economic affairs. Among other duties, he coordinated White House policy preparations for the Annual G-7 Economic Summits. Dr. Nau also served between 1975 and 1977 as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in the Department of State. Dr. Nau has held many different research fellowships and currently directs the U.S.-Japan Economic Agenda and coordinates the U.S.-Japan Legislative Exchange Program, a semiannual meeting between members of the U.S. Congress and Japanese Diet.

David Shinn

Adjunct Professor of International Affairs. Ambassador Shinn is a twice named Ambassador by the Department of State to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. Ambassador Shinn’s interests include Africa with particular attention on East Africa and the Horn, terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, the brain drain, conflict situations, U.S. foreign policy in Africa and HIV/AIDS.

Stephen Lubkemann

Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Political Science. Professor Lubkemann has expertise and focuses on Southern and Lusophone Africa; Portuguese and African diasporas; gender; political conflict and violence; migration and transnationalism; refugees and displacement; humanitarian action; and anthropological history. He has done extensive fieldwork in Mozambique, in South Africa, and with African refugees in Portugal and the U.S.

Bernard Reich

Professor of International Affairs and Political Science. Professor Reich focuses and has a lot of field work experience in Middle Eastern politics, terrorism, U.S.-Israel relations, Arab-Israeli conflict, and oil politics. He has lived in the Middle East on Fulbright and National Science Foundation Fellowships and has visited at the invitation of the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt and Morocco. Throughout the past few years, Professor Reich has also been a consultant to numerous government agencies and has testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and completed studies for the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress and the Congressional Research Service.

Michael J. Sodaro

Professor of International Affairs and Political Science. Professor Sodaro is also the Director of the European and Eurasian Studies Program. He is a specialist in the international relations and domestic politics of Europe and the former Soviet Union, with teaching interests in international relations and comparative politics. Professor Sodaro has also been awarded with the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for teaching.