People, Politics, and Prose

People, Politics, and Prose with Ron Granieri features in-depth conversations with authors of recent books on international affairs and national security. Each session will build on the book’s contents to discuss the author’s influences and motivations, relating everything to current events to elicit a broader understanding of the geographical, political, and historical context of our contemporary world.  

About Ronald Granieri:

Ronald Granieri is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). He also hosts People, Politics, and Prose, a monthly event series at FPRI. Granieri is a Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago and a former Federal Chancellor Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Dr. Granieri is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 (Berghahn, 2003) as well as articles on German History, European-American Relations, the Cold War, and contemporary politics in journals such as Orbis, Central European History, Foreign Policy, and The International History Review and has also published op-ed essays in The Hill and the Washington Post.