Toni Frissell, photographer. People and wreckage of buildings after a bombing raid of London during World War II.1945. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
From 2012-2016, the scholars Bruce W. Jentleson, Bradford Lee, John Bew, William I. Hitchcock, and Alexander Evans individually held the position of Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations.
The research topics that these scholars focused on during their tenure included:
The sections below provide a brief biography for each scholar and include webcasts of their Library of Congress lectures and programs, as well as selected bibliographies of their print publications.
Bruce W. Jentleson is an accomplished American foreign policy scholar, former senior advisor at the U.S. Department of State, and professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. At the Kluge Center he worked on his book, “Transformational Statesmanship: Difficult, Possible, Necessary,” which examines 20th century world leaders who made major breakthroughs for global peace and security.
Bruce Jentleson discussed his book “The Peacemakers”, which he researched while he was in residence at the Kluge Center. The book explores how a variety of 20th-century leaders rewrote the scripts they were handed to make breakthroughs on issues long thought intractable.
Bruce Jentleson looked across five dimensions of global peace and security: major power geopolitics, building international institutions, fostering reconciliation of peoples, advancing freedom and human rights, and promoting sustainability. Jentleson structured the profiles of leaders in a Who-Why-How-What framework to both gain better understanding of key 20th century events and draw lessons for 21st century challenges. Who were the 20th century world leaders who forged transformational breakthroughs in global peace and security? Why did they make the crucial choices that they did? How did they pursue their goals? What are the lessons for the 21st century global agenda?
As part of a two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Kluge Center, this event discussed perspectives on notions of morality.
The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are provided when available.
The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-century Statesmanship by 
American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century by 
Power in a Complex Global System by 
The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas by 
American Foreign Policy by 
Perspective in American Foreign Policy by 
Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized by 
Encyclopedia of U. S. Foreign Relations by 
With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush, and Saddam, 1982-1990 by 
Foreign Military Intervention by 
Pipeline Politics: The Complex Political Economy of East-West Energy Trade by Bradford Lee is an accomplished scholar of foreign policy, military strategy, and international relations. Lee is Emeritus Philip A. Crowl professor of comparative strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. At the Kluge Center, Lee worked on a book project that examined the results and costs of American military intervention in the 20th century.
Bradford Lee performed a critical analysis of how the U.S. waged war and negotiated peace from 1917 to 1919, and considered whether the value of victory was worth the costs of achieving it.
The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are provided when available.
Strategic Logic and Political Rationality by 
Britain and the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1939 by John Bew is professor of history and foreign policy at the War Studies Department at King’s College in London, where he leads a major project called the Grand Strategy Programme with the aim of bringing more historical and strategic expertise to statecraft, diplomacy and foreign policy. Bew is currently a member of the Number 10 Policy Unit, an elite group that provides policy advice directly to the British Prime Minister. At the Kluge Center, Bew’s research focused on realpolitik in Anglo-American political culture.
John Bew argued that real realpolitik is ripe for excavation and rediscovery as it undergoes a renaissance in the English-speaking world. He contended that the original concept of 'realpolitik' is still relevant to the challenges of the 21st century and that its use in the English language provides a window into the soul of Anglo-American political culture.
Robert Kagan and John Bew discussed how America positions itself in the world in the 21st-century.
The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are provided when available.
Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain by 
Realpolitik by 
Citizen Clem: A biography of Attlee by 
Castlereagh: A Life by 
Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny by 
Talking to Terrorists: Making peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque country by 
The Glory of Being Britons: Civic Unionism in Nineteenth-century Belfast by History's Monsters: 101 villains from Vlad the Impaler to Adolf Hitler by 
Belfast Politics: Thoughts on the British Constitution by William I. Hitchcock is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and a senior scholar at the Miller Center for Public Policy. Hitchcock has written widely on Cold War trans-Atlantic relations and European international affairs in the post-World War II era. At the Kluge Center, he performed research for his book “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s”.
As part of a two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Kluge Center, this event discussed how we write about those who came before us.
The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are provided when available.
The Age of Eisenhower by 
Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World by 
The Human Rights Revolution by 
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by 
The Struggle for Europe by 
From War to Peace by 
France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 by Alexander Evans is a member of the British diplomatic service and a visiting senior research fellow in War Studies at King's College in London. Evans was also former senior adviser to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and then to Ambassador Marc Grossman, and the U.S. special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has published widely on South Asia, international security and the nature of policy advice. At the Kluge Center, he researched Pakistan’s strategic culture and its influence on U.S. foreign policy goals.
As part of a two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Kluge Center, this event discussed perspectives on the concept of world order with former Kissinger chairs at the Center.
How is diplomacy changing? What can diplomats do to prevent or resolve conflict, initiate or manage change? These questions were addressed by a distinguished group of diplomats and scholars.
Drawing on archival research, Alexander Evans discussed how Pakistan understands its strategic interests and what this means for U.S.-Pakistan relations.
