George D. Schwab

George D. Schwab (born November 25, 1931) is the president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, an American non-partisan foreign policy think tank. He co-founded the organization in 1974 and has served as its president since 1993, and editor of its bimonthly journal, American Foreign Policy Interests.

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Biography

Education

George Schwab obtained a B.A. from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1954. He then attended Columbia University, where he earned a M.A. in 1955 and a PhD. in 1968. In 1965 he married Eleonora Storch. Their children are Clarence Boris, Claude Arkady, and Solan Bernhard. His wife died in 1998.

Career

Schwab was a Lecturer at Columbia College of Columbia University, New York City in 1959. From 1960 to 1968, he taught as a Lecturer at the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY). From 1968-1972 he was an Assistant Professor of History, an Associate Professor from 1973-1979, and Professor from 1980-2000, and Professor Emeritus (City College and the Graduate Center), 2001 - present.

In 1974, George D. Schwab was a cofounder of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy with the late Hans J. Morgenthau. He has edited the committee's bimonthly, American Foreign Policy Interests, since the inception of its publication in 1976. In 1984 he contributed a chapter titled A Decade of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy to a Festschrift in honor of Hans J. Morgenthau and the National Committee. Before assuming the presidency of the Committee in 1993, he was its senior vice president and vice president.

George D. Schwab has also lectured widely on his concept of The Open-Society Bloc at, among other institutions, the University of Freiburg in Germany and the Bundeswehrhochschule at Hamburg. He has also presented papers and actively participated at international gatherings in Tokyo; Paris (the Nobel Laureate conference at the Elysée Palace, 1988); Jerusalem; Washington, D.C.; and New York.

In the fall of 2001 the National Committee received a private endowment designed to honor the work of Professor Schwab which led to the creation of the George D. Schwab Foreign Policy Briefings. Speakers at the briefings range from heads of state, foreign ministers, ambassadors, officials of international organizations, and other foreign policy practitioners and experts. They are held throughout the year to give members and guests the opportunity to extend and enhance their understanding of issues that affect the national interests of the United States.

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