STANLEY R. SLOAN

Stan Sloan, one of America’s top experts on US-European relations, is the founding Director of the Atlantic Community Initiative (www.AtlanticCommunity.org), a Visiting Scholar at the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College, and President of VIC–Vermont, a private consulting firm. He currently serves as a consultant to the National Defense University Center for Transatlantic Security Studies.

During the Middlebury College Winter Terms from 2005-2007, and in January 2009 and 2011, he taught courses on transatlantic relations, and, in January 2008 and 2010, presented a course on “American Power: Use and Abuse.” His latest book, Permanent Alliance? NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama, was published by Continuum Books in July 2010.

Stan was educated at the University of Maine (BA), Columbia University's School of International Affairs (MIA), and American University’s School of International Service (abd PhD). He is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Officers' Training School and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. Stan began his more than three decades of public service at the Central Intelligence Agency in 1967, serving as NATO and European Community desk officer, member of the U.S. Delegation to the Negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, and as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe.

He was employed by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress in a variety of analytical and research management positions from 1975-1999, including head of the Office of Senior Specialists. In April 1999, he retired from his position as the Senior Specialist in International Security Policy. During 1997-98, Stan was the rapporteur for the North Atlantic Assembly special presidential report on “NATO in the 21^st Century.”

His recent publications include “NATO Needs Better Nonmilitary Options,” Defense News, March 21, 2011; “Transatlantic relations after the U.S. midterm elections,” Atlantisch Perpectief, December 2010; “NATO in Afghanistan,” UNISCI Discussion Papers, January 2010; “Pondering NATO’s Future,” International Herald Tribune, March 2009; “Failure, Success or Mixed Bag: The Foreign and Security Policy Legacy of the George W. Bush Administration,” in Atlantisch Perspectief, December 2008; “Where are American-European Relations Heading? A View from the United States,” chapter in Just Another Major Crisis? The United States and Europe Since 2000, Oxford University Press, 2008, Geir Lundestad, editor; “How and Why Did NATO Survive the Bush Doctrine?,” Report published by the NATO College Research Directorate, October 2008; “Why should we think NATO can survive Afghanistan?,” in the August 2008 issue of Swords and Ploughshares; “NATO Beyond Russia,” chapter in NATO-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, 2008, Aurel Braun, editor; “Negotiating Article 5,” in the Summer 2006 special issue of the NATO Review; “Taking the Atlantic Community Beyond NATO Transformation,” in Freedom & Union, the Journal of the Streit Council for a Union of Democracies, Summer 2006; and “We Should be Intolerant of Intolerance,” in Europe’s World, Summer 2006. On May 19, 2006, the International Herald Tribune published his article entitled “All the president’s truths.” In December 2005, his article entitled “How Does Religion Affect Relations between America and Europe?” appeared in EuroFuture magazine.

Mr. Sloan's recent books and monographs include Permanent Alliance? NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama (Continuum Books, July 2010); NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged (Rowman and Littlefield, August 2005); The Use of U.S. Power: Implications for U.S. Interests [with Robert Sutter and Casimir Yost] (Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, June 2004); NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Reconsidered (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21^st Century: Crisis, Continuity or Change? (Foreign Policy Association, October 2002); The United States and European Defence (Chaillot Paper, Western European Union Institute, April 2000); The Foreign Policy Struggle – Congress and the President in the 1990s and Beyond [with Mary Locke and Casimir Yost] (Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, January 2000.

Stan has lectured widely on US foreign and security policy and Euro-Atlantic security issues in Europe and the United States. He has been a frequent presenter at the NATO College in Rome (where, in September 2005, he was named an “Honorary Ancien” of the College to acknowledge his contributions to the College and the NATO alliance), the Geneva (Switzerland) Center for Security Policy, the Wilton Park (UK) Foreign Office conference center, dozens of international conferences, and for the US public diplomacy program in many countries, most recently China, Germany, Russia, Estonia, Denmark, Norway and Austria. In May 2009 he moderated and served as rapporteur for an international conference in The Hague organized by the Netherlands Atlantic Commission on NATO’s new strategic concept.

In 2002, Stan was selected as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow and most recently in that capacity lectured at Hampden-Sydney College in February 2007. Over the years, Stan has also presented to audiences at Dartmouth College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Kent State University, Harvard University, Middlebury College, University of Vermont, University of Arkansas, University of Virginia, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Georgetown University, George Washington University, National Defense University, Air War College, Army War College, Naval War College, US Naval Academy, US Air Force Academy, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Vermont Council on World Affairs, International Institute of Strategic Studies, Chatham House, Oxford English Speaking Union, Cologne University, German Council on Foreign Relations, Dutch Atlantic Commission, Austrian Institute for European Security, French Institute for International Relations, University of Rome, University of Naples and many other venues.