Mel Gurtov
Visiting Professor
Phone: (541) 346-4894
Email: mgurtov@uoregon.edu
Mel Gurtov is Visiting Professor of Political Science and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Asian Perspective, an international quarterly. His longstanding interests are in East Asian politics and foreign policy, U.S. foreign policy, and global politics from a human-interest perspective—interests that have led to over twenty books, numerous articles, and most recently to co-organizing a series of trans-Pacific workshops devoted to reconciliation between rival and divided states. 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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