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Robert Strong

Fast Facts

  • Emeritus professor, Washington and Lee University
  • Fulbright Scholar, University College Dublin (2013-14)
  • Former associate provost, Washington and Lee University
  • Expertise on the presidency, U.S. foreign policy, Jimmy Carter

Areas Of Expertise

  • Foreign Affairs
  • American Defense and Security
  • Governance
  • Elections
  • Political Parties and Movements
  • Politics
  • The Presidency

Robert (Bob) Strong is emeritus professor at Washington and Lee University and was a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin for the 2013-14 academic year. In 2005, he was a visiting scholar at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University.

Strong earned his PhD at the University of Virginia and before W&L taught at Tulane University and the University College of Wales. 

Strong's research involves national security issues and presidential foreign policy decisions in the modern era. His book publications include Character and Consequence: Foreign Policy Decisions of George H. W. BushWorking in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy and Decisions and Dilemmas: Case Studies in Presidential Foreign Policy Making Since 1945.   

From 2008 to 2013, Strong served in senior administrative positions at Washington and Lee, first as associate provost and then as interim provost. He has published essays in a variety of journals and national newspapers.  His recent speeches and op-eds can be found here.

 

Robert Strong News Feed

"Looking back at the post-Civil War era, we could take some comfort in the realization that aspects of our contemporary politics are not new. But if we dig a little deeper, we may be able to learn more about what is constant and what is changing in American politics."
Robert Strong Miller Center Election 2024 Blog
Presidential elections are not what they used to be. We see evidence of this all the time, but here’s a brief reminder that not that long ago a minor scandal in the personal life of a presidential candidate could end a political career.
Robert Strong Miller Center Election 2024 Blog
In an interview with presidential scholar Robert Strong, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and author of Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy, Newsweek explored what the 1980s might have looked like with four more years of Jimmy Carter.
Robert Strong Newsweek
The last time a president defeated for reelection came back to win the White House was 1892. Grover Cleveland, the 44th president, became the 46th—the only president to hold two nonconsecutive terms. That’s the trick that Donald Trump is trying to repeat this year.
Robert Strong Miller Center Election 2024 Blog
Can there really be millions of illegal votes in the United States that no investigation, no formal review, no court of law can detect? Maybe we can learn something by looking at an actual case of documented voter fraud.
Robert Strong Miller Center Election 2024 Blog
“He was always the sincere, principal hard-working political leader,” said Robert Strong, Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Robert Strong WALB