Joe Renouard

Expertise

Regions

• Europe
• United States

Topics

• American Foreign Policy
• Domestic Influences On Foreign Policy
• European Union and Transatlantic Relations
• History
• Human Rights and Democracy
• U.S. Presidency and Foreign Policy

Languages

• Spanish

Background and Education

Dr. Renouard specializes in American diplomacy, American history, human rights and humanitarianism, and transatlantic relations.  His most recent book is Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse (Penn Press, 2016).  He has also contributed essays to The Los Angeles Times, The National Interest, American Diplomacy, The Diplomat, The Journal of American Culture, HNN, The Cicero Foundation, The Prague Post, Education about Asia, and several edited collections, including Matthias Schulz and Thomas A. Schwartz, eds., The Strained Alliance: Conflict and Cooperation in US-European Relations from Nixon to Carter; Cristina Crespo Palomares & David García Cantalapiedra, eds., North and South: The United States, the European Union, and the Developing World; William Michael Schmidli and Robert Pee, eds., The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion; Roberta Haar and Neil Wynn, eds., Transatlantic Conflict and Consensus: Culture, History & Politics; V. Scott Kaufman, ed., A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter; and Christos G. Frentzos and Antonio Thompson, eds., The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Diplomatic and Military History.  At present, he is developing a book manuscript on the international genocide treaty. 
 
Dr. Renouard has lived and worked in the United States, China, the Czech Republic, and Spain, and he has taught at Emory University, Oxford College, Virginia Tech, Kennesaw State University, and The Citadel.  In recent years, he has received fellowships and research grants from Princeton University, the American Philosophical Society, the George C. Marshall Foundation, and the Huntington Library.  

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