Alan Henrikson

Alan Henrikson is Lee E. Dirks Professor of Diplomatic History Emeritus and the founding Director of Diplomatic Studies at The Fletcher School, where he has taught American diplomatic history, contemporary U.S.-European relations, and the history, theory, and practice of diplomacy. He has served as a Fulbright Professor at the Diplomatische Akademie in Vienna and at the College of Europe in Bruges. He has also taught at the Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and other institutions worldwide. In April 2018, he was visiting professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), where he gave a course on “Diplomacy” in the Master’s degree program on Governance and Global Affairs and an invited classroom lecture, “Diplomacy and Friendship.” Having lived through and taught the history of U.S.-Russian relations throughout the Cold War and its aftermath, he is mindful of the bonds, including cultural exchanges, that have helped to maintain what has been called “The Long Peace.”