Dale Herspring

Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1972
M.A., Georgetown University, 1967
A.B., Stanford University, 1965

Vita

Dr. Dale Herspring is a University Distinguished Professor in the Political Science Department at Kansas State University. He is also a Visiting Professor to the University of Kansas. Dr. Herspring has published numerous books including The Pentagon and Presidential Authority, Civil-Military Relations from Franklin Roosevelt to George W. Bush (2005), Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (2004), Soldiers, Commissars and Chaplains, From Cromwell to the Present (2001), Requiem for an Army: The Demise of the East German Military (1998), Requiem für eine Armee; Das Ende der Nationalen Volksarmee der DDR (2000), Russian Civil-Military Relations; Past and Present (1996), The Soviet High Command; 1964-1989; Politics and Personalities (1990), The Soviet Union and Strategic Arms (1984), Civil-Military Relations in Communist Systems (1978), and East German Civil-Military Relations: The Impact of Technology (1973).

Dr. Herspring has also had numerous articles published in many different journals which include European Security, Problems of Post-Communism, Communism and Post-Communist Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Armed Forces and Society, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Minerva, Wojsko i Wychowanie, Russia and Eurasia Armed Forces Review Annual, Studies in Comparative Communism, Orbis, Survival, Adelphi Papers, Slavic Review, Comparative Strategy, Soviet Foreign Policy, and Armed Forces and Society.

Dr. Herspring has created and organized the Political, Military and Diplomatic Lecture Series. To this point, he has brought over 130 senior academics, retired military and diplomatic officials, and foreign officials to KSU to provide graduate students with an opportunity to meet and discuss problems of international relations with experts. He currently sits on 9 MA committees and 7 Ph.D. committees.

Dr. Herspring teaches Comparative Politics courses such as Soviet/Russian Politics, Soviet/Russian Foreign Policy, East European Foreign and Domestic Politics, West European and especially German Politics, Comparative Civil-Military Relations. He also teaches International Relations courses such as National Security Affairs and Formulation/Implementation of US foreign policy.