Mel Gurtov
Visiting Professor, 2008-2010

Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Studies at Portland State University, Oregon.  He is also Editor-in-Chief of Asian Perspective, an international quarterly.  Gurtov previously served on the staff of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif. (1966-71), where he was a co-author of the Pentagon Papers, and at the University of California, Riverside (1971-86), where he was professor of political science.  He has published twenty books and numerous articles on East Asian affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and global politics from a human-interest perspective.  His most recent books are Global Politics in the Human Interest, 5th ed. (Rienner, 2007); Superpower on Crusade: The Bush Doctrine in US Foreign Policy (Rienner, 2006); and Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Perspectives from Asia-Pacific, co-edited with Peter Van Ness (Routledge, 2005).  Mel is a frequent visitor to East Asia, where he has been a visiting professor and Senior Fulbright Scholar—at Waseda University in Tokyo and Hankuk Foreign Studies University in Seoul—and has lectured at universities and research institutes in South Korea, Japan, and China.

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