ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE

Director
Special Initiative on the Muslim World

Areas of Specialization

Balkans • Caucasus • Muslim World • United States-European Union relations • European Security • International Economics

Foreign Language: French

Background

Richard D. Kauzlarich is director of the Institute's Special Initiative on the Muslim World, which examines the opportunities and challenges facing the United States in its relations with the Muslim World, from Africa to Southeast Asia. Kauzlarich joined the Institute in Spring 2002 after a thirty two year career in the Foreign Service. Kauzlarich served as United States ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997-99, and Azerbaijan in 1994-97. He was senior deputy to the secretary's and the president's special representative to the Newly Independent States (NIS) in 1993-94. He was deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European Affairs in 1991-93, responsible for relations with the former Soviet Union and economic ties with the European Union and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. Kauzlarich also served as deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs in 1984-86, during which time he was in charge of relations with the technical and specialized agencies of the United Nations. He was also deputy director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in 1986-89, handling global and international economic issues. In addition to his ambassadorial assignments, Kauzlarich served at American embassies in Ethiopia, Israel, and Togo. In December 2001, the Century Foundation published his report "Time for Change? U.S. Policy in the Transcaucasus." Kauzlarich received his B.A. from Valparaiso University and M.A.'s from Indiana University and the University of Michigan.

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