Ronald Tiersky is currently a professor of political science at Amherst College. Past assignments include Director of John Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center and consultant for the Departments of States and Defense. His fields of expertise include European politics, European integration and security, comparative politics and international relations, and problems of war and peace.
Dr. Tiersky, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, is the authors of several books and articles, the latest of which are France and the New Europe: Changing Yet Steadfast (1994) and "Mitterrand's Legacies," Foreign Affairs (Jan-Feb 1995).