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Earl Cedric Ravenal (March 29, 1931 – August 31, 2019) was an American foreign policy analyst, academic, and writer. He served as a distinguished senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of the
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It is considered to be one of the world's leading international affairs schools, granting degrees at both ...
. Ravenal was raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, and received a Henry Fellowship to Cambridge University in England. He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration Middle Management Program. Ravenal earned his MA and PhD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he taught prior to his appointment to Georgetown University. Ravenal served as a division director in the Office of United States Secretary of Defense from 1967 to 1969, under Secretaries of Defense Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford. In addition to writing several books on the topic of
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, Ravenal wrote over 200 articles and papers for various publications including '' The New York Times'', '' The Washington Post'', and ''
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''. He was a candidate for the Libertarian Party's
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in the 1984 election, finishing second to the party's eventual nominee, David Bergland. Raimondo, Justin Ravenal died on August 31, 2019 at his secondary residence in Trappe, Maryland.


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Earl C. Ravenal, Distinguished Senior Fellow
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