Author Robert A. Strong

Robert A. Strong

Robert A. Strong is the William Lyne Wilson Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University and, in 2013-14, a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin. Researching American foreign policy, the presidency, and national security issues, his publications include Decisions and Dilemmas: Case Studies in Presidential Foreign Policy Making since 1945 (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2005) and Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy (Louisiana State University Press, 2000).

Politics and Principle: Jimmy Carter in the Civil Rights Era

Robert A. Strong

Articles, Issue 3 2014

Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, 2014 IAAS Annual Conference There is a famous story about Lyndon Johnson’s White House. In some versions, it was the night after Congress had passed the Voting Rights... Read More...

"The Product of a Spoiled America": Divorce as Collective Crisis in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1990s

Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace

The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement

“a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties

‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became

“‘Normal People’ Indeed!”: Anne Tyler, Sally Rooney, and the Narrative of Youthful Quirk

Depictions of Shame: White Identity and Cultural Blackness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

Review: Sawires-Masseli, Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership

Review: Christian Schmidt, Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.

Review: Wickham Clayton, ed, Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

The IAAS's Americanista: An Interview with Catherine Gander (IAAS Chair)

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

Politics and Principle: Jimmy Carter in the Civil Rights Era