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'''Michael Mandelbaum''' (born 1946) is a professor and director of the American Foreign Policy program at the [[Johns Hopkins University]], School of Advanced International Studies. He has written a number of books on American foreign policy and edited a dozen more.

==Education==
Mandelbaum earned a PhD in political science from [[Harvard University]]. He was also educated at [[Yale University]] and King's College, Cambridge where he was a Marshall Scholar.

==Career==
Mandelbaum was named one of the top 100 Global Thinkers by ''Foreign Policy'' magazine "for teaching America how to be a hegemon on the cheap." He is on the board of directors of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Mandelbaum worked on security issues at the US Department of State from 1982 to 1983 on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in the office of Undersecretary of State [[Lawrence Eagleburger]]. He later served as an adviser to [[Bill Clinton]].

Speaking on behalf of the United States Information Agency for more than two decades, Mandelbaum has explained American foreign policy to groups throughout Europe, East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, India, and the Middle East.

From 1986 to 2003, he was a senior fellow at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] in New York, where he was also the director of its Project on East-West Relations. Mandelbaum was then a Carnegie Scholar (2004–2005) of the [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]]. From 1984 to 2005, he was the associate director of the [[Aspen Institute]]'s Congressional Program on Relations with the Former Communist World.

He has taught at [[Harvard University]], [[Columbia University]], and the US Naval Academy. He also taught business executives at the Wharton Advanced Management Program in the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of Business at the [[University of Pennsylvania]].

Mandelbaum is a frequent commentator on American foreign policy. From 1985 to 2005, he wrote a regular foreign affairs analysis column for ''Newsday''. His writing has also appeared in ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''The Washington Post'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', and the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. He has appeared as a guest on ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'', ''Charlie Rose'', ''Nightline'', and ''[[PBS NewsHour]]''.

==Writing==
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?173268-1/the-ideas-conquered-world ''Booknotes'' interview with Mandelbaum on ''The Ideas That Conquered the World'', October 20, 2002], C-SPAN| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?174939-1/the-ideas-conquered-world Presentation by Mandelbaum on ''The Ideas That Conquered the World'', January 31, 2003], C-SPAN| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?191417-1/after-words-michael-mandelbaum ''After Words'' interview with Mandelbaum on ''The Case for Goliath'', April 1, 2006], C-SPAN| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?297060-1/the-frugal-superpower Discussion with Mandelbaum on ''The Frugal Superpower'', October 7, 2010], C-SPAN| video5 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?301796-1/that-us Presentation by Mandelbaum and Thomas Friedman on ''That Used to Be Us'', September 27, 2011], C-SPAN| video6 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?301795-4/optimism-united-states ''Washington Journal'' interview with Mandelbaum and Friedman on ''That Used to Be Us'', September 28, 2011], C-SPAN| video7 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?308235-6/that-us Interview with Mandelbaum and Friedman on ''That Used to Be Us'', September 22, 2012], C-SPAN | video8 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?318936-6/washington-journal-global-economy-prosperity ''Washington Journal'' interview with Mandelbaum on ''The Road to Global Prosperity'', April 17, 2014], C-SPAN | video9 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?319608-1/the-road-global-prosperity Presentation by Mandelbaum on ''The Road to Global Prosperity'', May 27, 2014], C-SPAN | video10 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?415149-1/american-foreign-policy-cold-war Presentation by Mandelbaum on ''Mission Failure'', September 16, 2016], C-SPAN | video11 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?459081-1/the-rise-fall-peace-earth Presentation by Mandelbaum on ''The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth'', March 27, 2019], C-SPAN}}

His first book, ''The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear Weapons'', was published in 1979.

In 1988, he published ''The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the 19th and 20th Centuries''. ''Publishers Weekly'' said, "Mandelbaum's book is brilliant and enjoyable...[he] charts how nations find ways of acting together in diplomatically organized groups for defensive purposes, and he analyses certain countries' specific roles and histories. His knowledge of philosophy, politics, history and economics results in a stunning delineation of centuries of military actions, political maneuverings and cultural uprisings." In 1996, he wrote ''The Dawn of Peace in Europe''. [[Walter Russell Mead]] in ''The New York Times Book Review'', called it a "brilliant book that combines the most lucid exposition yet of the post-cold-war order in Europe with a devastating critique of the Clinton Administration's foreign policy."

In 2002, he published ''The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century''. In 2006, he wrote ''The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century'', in which he argued that US dominance in global affairs is better than the alternatives.

In 2010, he wrote ''The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era'', in which he argued that the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and economic obligations will redraw the boundaries of US foreign policy. Published in 2011, ''That Used to Be Us'' addresses four major problems faced by America: globalization, the revolution in information technology, US chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption.

==Bibliography==
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'''Books'''
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* {{cite book <!--|author=Mandelbaum, Michael --> |title=The Nuclear Question: the United States and nuclear weapons |year=1979 <!--isbn=9780521296144 |OCLC=179722736-->}}
* ''The Nuclear Revolution'' (1981)
* ''The Nuclear Future'' (1983)
* ''Reagan and Gorbachev'' (Co-written with [[Strobe Talbott]] 1987)
* ''The Global Rivals'' (Co-written with [[Seweryn Bialer]] 1988)
* ''The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the 19th and 20th Centuries'' (1988) {{ISBN|9780521355278}}, {{OCLC| 247933640}}
* ''The Dawn of Peace in Europe'' (1996)
* ''The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century'' (2002)
* ''The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Basketball and Football and What They See When They Do'' (2005)
* ''The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century'' (2006) {{ISBN|9781586484583}}, {{OCLC|870414060}}
* ''Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government'' (Public Affairs, 2007) {{ISBN|9781586486648}}, {{OCLC|209638111}}
* ''The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era'' (2010) {{ISBN|9781610390545}}, {{OCLC|720831376}}
* ''That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back'' (Co-written with [[Thomas Friedman]] 2011)
* ''The Road to Global Prosperity'' (2014) {{ISBN|9781476750019}}. {{OCLC|907454893}}
* ''Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era'' (Oxford University Press, 2016) {{ISBN|9781504755634}}, {{OCLC|962743515}}
* ''The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth'' (Oxford University Press, 2019) {{ISBN|9780190935931}}, {{OCLC| 1044864332}}
* ''The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower'' (Oxford University Press, 2022), {{ISBN|9780197621790}}, {{OCLC|1298714782}}

'''Critical studies and reviews of Mandelbaum's work'''
'''''Mission failure'''''
* {{cite journal |author=Tangredi, Sam J. |date=Summer 2018 |title=Failures and successes |department=Book Reviews |journal=Naval War College Review |volume=71 |issue=3 |pages=146–148 |url=https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol71/iss3/10/ <!--accessdate=2019-03-22-->}}

==External links==

*{{YouTube|5fQvkznB1bg|"Michael Mandelbaum: The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower"}}

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