Andy Bacevich

BU Professor, contemporary historian, political & foreign policy expert, author

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University.  A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he served for twenty-three years as a commissioned officer in the United States Army.  He received his Ph. D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton.  Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Bacevich is the author of several books, to include Washington Rules:  America’s Path to Permanent War (2010), The Limits of Power:  The End of American Exceptionalism (2008), The New American Militarism:  How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005) and American Empire:  The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy (2002).  He is the editor of The Short American Century, 1941-2008:  A Postmortem (2012);  The Long War:  A New History of U. S. National Security Policy since World War II (2007); Imperial Tense:  Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003);.His essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general interest publications to include The Atlantic Monthly, The Wilson Quarterly, The London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and The New Republic.  Dr. Bacevich is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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