Francis Gavin

Who is Francis Gavin?

Francis J. Gavin is a leading academic authority on American foreign policy. A historian by training, his teaching and research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, national security affairs, nuclear strategy and arms control, presidential policymaking, and the history of international monetary relations. He is the founding Director of Studies for The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the first Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the director of The Next Generation Project – U.S. Global Policy and the Future of International Institutions, a multi-year national initiative sponsored by The American Assembly at Columbia University. He was a founding member of the Historical Society, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Gavin co-taught the 2010 Hertog Global Strategy Seminar at Columbia University, a research program that employs historical analysis to confront present and future problems in world politics. This year's seminar focused on nuclear proliferation.