Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

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Summary:
In his position as Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Hulsman examines European security and NATO affairs, the European Union, U.S.-European trade and economic relations, the war on terror, Iraq, Iran and the Middle-East peace process. Hulsman is a frequent commentator on all aspects of transatlantic relations, global geopolitics, and international cooperation in fighting terrorism. He makes regular appearances with major media outlets such as ABC, CBS, Fox News, CNN, CNNfn, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS and the BBC.

Since September 11, Hulsman has written and lectured on how the U.S. and its allies find themselves in a new strategic environment and recommends concrete policies for managing the transatlantic drift. For over ten years he has written and spoken about the fact that differences within the alliance were more serious than conventional wisdom allowed for, an assessment that was confirmed by the diplomatic tensions that preceded the Iraqi War. His expertise has led him to serve on a Council on Foreign Relations Task Force designed to assess the transatlantic schism as well as a recent Council of Foreign Relations Task Force on how to manage the situation in Iraq. Additionally, Hulsman is an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

Prior to joining Heritage, Hulsman was a fellow in European studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. He also taught world politics and U.S. foreign policy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he specialized in American foreign policy during the post-Cold War era, and the relationship between NATO and the European Union.

Hulsman is the author of "A Paradigm for the New World Order" (1997, Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, United Kingdom/St. Martin's Press, New York City) that uses the Bosnian crisis, U.S.-Russian relations, trade issues and NATO expansion as case studies to examine the American role in world politics. His most recent book, "The World Turned Rightside Up: A New Trading Agenda for the Age of Globalization," (2000, Institute of Economic Affairs, London) advocates a global free trade association comprised of genuine free trading nations around the world as a solution to the current logjam on trade issues and a way to cement the vital US-UK strategic relationship in the new era.

Hulsman has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union, and lived in Scotland for seven years while earning his doctorate and master's degrees in modern history and international relations from the University of St. Andrews. While at St. Andrews, Hulsman debated at the international level, winning the St. Andrews Union Debating Championship. He is currently at work on his third book, Lawrence of Arabia and the Perils of Nation-Building. Hulsman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a contributing editor to the National Interest.