About
Robert (“Bob”) Donaldson, Ph.D., retired after 45 years of teaching political science, specializing in Russian and American foreign policy and world politics. At The University of Tulsa, where he was president during the 1990s, he was chosen “Faculty Member of the Year” in 2013. Prior to his tenure at UTulsa, he was president of Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a professor and administrator at both Vanderbilt University and the City University of New York.
Donaldson earned three degrees from Harvard and is author or co-author of six books and two dozen articles and book chapters. The seventh edition of The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests, was published in October 2023. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former president of the American Committees on Foreign Relations, he has also served as a consultant in the U.S. intelligence community.
Awards and Honors
- Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Massachusetts, 1964
- Orden Andres Bello, Venezuela, 1991
- Doctor of Political Science (Hon), Kyungnam University, Republic of Korea, 1988
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- A.M., Harvard University
- A.B., Harvard University
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Russian/Soviet politics and foreign policy
- American national security policy
- International relations