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Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Jonathan Adelman

Education

PhD, Columbia University
MA, Columbia University
BA, Columbia College

Profile

Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver (1992-present), Associate Professor (1986-1992), Assistant Professor (978-1986); Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Washington, D.C. (2001-2008); Visiting Professor, Central European University, Budapest (1999), Diplomatic Academy (Moscow, 1998) , Peoples University (Beijing,1997) and Janos Pannonius University, Hungary (1991); Honorary Professor, Peking University (1996-2008), Honorary Professor, People's University (1995-2008); 17 lecture tours to China (1988-2008), 15 international speaking tours for State Department to 13 countries (1988-2007). Author or editor of more than 10 books about international affairs, including The Rise of Israel: A History of a Revolutionary State (2008), Hitler And His Allies in World War II (2007), Torrents of Spring: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics (1995), and Symbolic War: The Chinese Way of War, 1840-1990 (1993).

Research and Expertise

Comparative politics, history of the Soviet Union, Russian foreign and defense policies, Chinese national security and defense policies

Courses

INTS 4142: After the Fall-Russia & China
INTS 4760: Russian Foreign & Defense Policy

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  • jadelman@du.edu
  • 303.871.2548
  • 204 Ben M. Cherrington Hall
  • Josef Korbel School of International Studies,  University of Denver
    • 2201 South Gaylord Street
    • Denver , CO 80208 USA
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