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Stan Sloan 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. For the past three years (2005 – 2007) he has taught a Winter term course on transatlantic relations at Middlebury College. His most recent book entitled NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged was published by Rowman and Littlefield in August 2005. 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 (now NATO Parliamentary Assembly) special presidential report on “NATO in the 21st Century.”
His recent publications include “Negotiating Article 5,” appearing 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 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 21st
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 Germany, Russia and Estonia. In 2002, Stan was selected as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow and, 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. |
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