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

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...

Satire, Symbolism, and the "Working Through" of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

Review: Kloeckner, Knewitz, and Sielke, eds., Knowledge Landscapes North America

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