Ralph J. Begleiter (born 1949 in the United States) is an American journalist and educator who teaches courses in communication, political science and journalism at the University of Delaware. He is Director of the university's Center for Political Communication [1], hosts the TV series Great Decisions[2], broadcast on many PBS stations, and worked for two decades in CNN's Washington bureau as its world affairs correspondent. He has worked in 100 countries on all seven continents.