Jeremi Suri is an American historian and the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the

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Life

He graduated from

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with a bachelor's in history in 1994. He then obtained a master's in history from

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followed by a Ph.D. in history from

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. While at Yale, he wrote a dissertation titled "Convergent Responses to Disorder: Cultural Revolution and Détente among the Great Powers during the 1960s." Suri has received many prizes for his teaching and research.Jeremi Suri at TEDxSMU 2012.
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'' named him one of America's "Top Young Innovators" in the Arts and Sciences. In 2012, Suri was Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. That year, he spoke at the independently organized TedxSMU event. Jeremi is a frequent public lecturer and guest on radio and television programs. His writings appear widely in blogs and print media, including ''Foreign Policy.'' He has said that he is half Jewish and half Hindu.

Works

Books

* ''Henry Kissinger and the American Century''. Cambridge, Mass.:

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(2009). .
''Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente''.
Cambridge, Mass.:

(2009). . * ''Liberty's Surest Guardian: Rebuilding Nations After War from the Founders to Obama''. New York:

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(2012). .
''The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office''.
New York:

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(2017). . *
Civil War By Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight For Democracy
' New York: Public Affairs (2022). ISBN 978-1541758544.

Selected articles

"Hamilton Fish Armstrong, the 'American Establishment,' and Cosmopolitan Nationalism."
'' Princeton University Library Chronicle'', vol. 63, no. 3 (Spring 2002), pp. 438–65. . .
"Foreword: 'A Peace That Is No Peace': The Cold War as Contemporary History."
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'', vol. 24, no. 4 (October 2010), pp. 5–6. .
"Conflict and Co-Operation in the Cold War: New Directions in Contemporary Historical Research."
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'', vol. 46, no. 1 (January 2011), pp. 5–9. .

References

External links

Jeremi Suri's Official website
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"Jeremi Suri: History of American Power" (interview)
on the

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, no. 180 (April 29, 2021)
"Jeremi Suri: Civil War, Slavery, Freedom, and Democracy" (interview)
on the

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