American Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era

When the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, the United States entered a new era as the world’s unrivalled military, economic and political power. The world and America’s role in it now look quite different. Join retired U.S. Ambassador George Krol in examining how America’s foreign policy and practice of diplomacy have evolved in the decades following the end of the Cold War. The course will also discuss the prospects for further change in American foreign policy under the new U.S. administration.

George Krol is a retired career U.S. diplomat, who spent 36 years in the U.S. Foreign Service (1982-2018) serving in senior positions both in the U.S. State Department in Washington and in U.S. diplomatic missions abroad, including posts as ambassador to Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Krol, a resident of Middletown, Rhode Island, currently serves as an adjunct professor at the U.S. Naval War College and is an associate of Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.