: Stan Sloan: United States-European Relations, Defense and Foreign Policy
Topics he can discuss include: - U.S. and European relations
- U.S. role in use0of force issues
- 9/11 and the Iraq crisis
- NATO's emerging role in international security
Stan Sloan is a visiting winter term professor of political science at Middlebury College and a visiting scholar at Middlebury's Rohatyn Center for International Affairs. He teaches courses on transatlantic relations that examine the history, current conditions, and prospective futures of U.S. and European relations.
Sloan is an internationally recognized expert on defense and foreign policy, with more than 35 years of experience as a military officer, intelligence analyst, and defense and foreign policy consultant for Congress. His 2002 book "NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged" was released in its second edition in 2005. The book provides a history of the transatlantic alliance and explores critical developments in U.S.-European relations. Sloan analyzes the ongoing record of U.S. unilateralism and its consequences as the Iraq debate produced splits among the allies and eroded European trust in U.S. leadership.
Sloan is president of VIC-Vermont, a private consulting firm, and founding director of the Atlantic Community Initiative. He lectures periodically for the U.S. public diplomacy program and regularly at the NATO College in Rome. He is the author of numerous books, articles and opinion pieces.
