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Ronald Tiersky is the Joseph B. Eastman Professor of
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''Emeritus'' at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.


Career

Tiersky taught political science and European Studies at Amherst for four decades. During 1980-82 he was Director of the
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center in
Bologna, Italy Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
. He was associated over the years with the Paris Centre d’études des relations internationales (CERI). Tiersky is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he is the founding editor and general editor of the "Europe Today" series at Rowman & Littlefield publishers.


Early life and education

Raised in Chicago, IL, Tiersky did his B.A. at the
University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...
(Champaign-Urbana) in history. He did his M.A. (1971) and Ph, D. (1972), in Political Science, at
Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
. He lived in
Paris, France Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...
1969-1973 researching his dissertation and first book, on the French Communist Party, where his mentors were Profs.
Raymond Aron Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 19 ...
and Annie Kriegel.


Bibliography

Tiersky has written widely on European politics, American foreign policy and international politics. Books authored
‘’French Communism, 1920-1972’’ (Columbia University Press, 1974)


* ttps://books.google.co.zw/books?id=Wh2NAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ‘’France in the New Europe’’ (Wadsworth Pubs., 1994)
‘’Euro-skepticism’’ (ed., Rowman & Littlefield Pubs. 2001)


* ttps://books.google.com/books/about/Europe.html?id=bXvEvAEACAAJ ‘’Europe: a year of living dangerously’’ (with Alex Tiersky, Foreign Policy Association, 2004)
‘’European Foreign Policies’’ (ed., with John Van Oudenaren, 2010) Rowman & Littlefield Pubs
Books edited

His articles and editorials have appeared in '' Foreign Affairs'', ''
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'', the '' International Herald Tribune'', ''
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'', '' Le Point'', '' Libération'', and ''
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''.


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Ronald Tiersky
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