Speaker Information

Global Issues 2013

Dr. Jerry Pubantz

Dr. Jerry Pubantz is the Dean of Lloyd International Honors College and Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His writings include works on American Foreign Policy, the Middle East, the United Nations, peacekeeping and democracy promotion, and U.S.-Russian Relations. His articles on the Middle East have appeared in The Turkish Journal of International Relations and in ArabiesTRENDS, published in Paris. Dr. Pubantz appears regularly on local, national, and foreign media, including North Carolina television outlets, Radio Canada International and Sahar TV in Iran, to discuss American foreign policy and Middle East affairs.

Dr. Pubantz is a member of the Middle East Policy Council’s National Advisory Board, a former President of the North Carolina Political Science Association, the co-founder of the Southern Association of Pre-law Advisers, and the former Chairman of the National Collegiate Conference Association, corporate sponsor of the National Model United Nations in New York City. He is the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the United Nations and co-author of The New United Nations: International Organization in the 21st Century and of To Create a New World? American Presidents and the United Nations, honored with CHOICE Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title Award by the American Library Association. He has lectured at universities and colleges across the nation and internationally.