The Whitney and Betty Mac Millan Center For International and Area Studies at Yale - Noteworthy Alumni

Noteworthy Alumni

• Eric Alterman MA IR - political blogger (Altercation), commentator on MSNBC, Professor of English at Brooklyn College
• A. Doak Barnett MA IR '47 - scholar of Chinese foreign relations, Professor at Columbia University and fellow at the Brookings Institute
• Janet Beer MA IR '95 - Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University
• Kenneth Brown MA IR '60 - former U.S. ambassador to Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, and Ghana; President of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training at the Foreign Service Institute
• Randy Charles Epping MA IR - author and economist
• James H. Fowler MA IR '97 - political scientist specializing in social networks, cooperation, political participation, and genopolitics; coiner of the term Colbert Bump
• Morton Halperin PhD IR - expert on foreign policy and civil liberties; served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations including as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department.
• Peter Hart MA IR - Canadian historian
• Heyward Isham BA IR '47 - American diplomat, negotiator in 1973 Peace Accord with North Vietnam.
• Scott Kleeb MA IR - Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, 2008
• Michael Lind MA IR '85 - writer, historian, and Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation
• Barry Naughton MA IR '86 - So Kwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego
• Richard Nolte MA IR '47 - American diplomat, Middle East expert.
• Matthew Parris MA IR - English journalist and former Conservative politician.
• Thomas Palley MA IR - Post-Keynesian economist
• Noah Pollak MA IR '10 - political commentator
• Michael Rothschild MA IR '65 - economist, William Stuart Tod Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
• Pedro Moreira Salles MA IR - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for Unibanco.
• John Stewart MA IR - banker and unsuccessful Canadian political candidate.
• Marcel Theroux MR IR - British novelist and broadcaster.
• J. Ann Tickner MA IR '60 - feminist international relations theorist
• Sergio Troncoso MA IR '92 - short story author
• William Wohlforth MA IR '84 - Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College