Jeffrey Thomas Bergner (born 1946) is an American foreign policy expert. He is a visiting lecturer at the Batten School of Public Policy and Leadership at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Origin of Formalism in Social Science, The New Superpowers, Against Modern Humanism, The Vanishing Congress, and Turning Point: Judaism, Christianity and Islam Confront Greek Philosophy. He is also co-author (with Lisa Spiller) of Branding the Candidate and several other books concerning American politics and foreign affairs. He served as managing partner of Bergner Bockorny, a government relations firm specializing in tax, trade and international issues Bergner was Policy Director, Lugar for President Campaign; Staff Director,

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the U.S. Senate charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and debate in the Senate. It is generally responsible for overseeing and funding foreign aid p ...

; Chief of Staff/Legislative Director, Senator Richard Lugar; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

; Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

; visiting professor at

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and Visiting Professor of American Studies at

Christopher Newport University Christopher Newport University (CNU) is a public university in Newport News, Virginia. It was founded in 1960 and is named after Christopher Newport, captain of one of the ships which carried settlers of Jamestown, the first permanent English ...

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. Bergner served as

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for Legislative Affairs from 2005 until July 2008. Bergner has had affiliations with the

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, the Calvert Institute for Public Policy, the Hudson Institute,

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and the

Project for the New American Century The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservativeBA from Carleton College (1969), MA from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

(1971), and PhD from Princeton (1973).

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