Dr. Michael Vlahos
While our lives move inevitably from future to past, Vlahos, a senior fellow at the Foundation, has tried to march in a different direction. From Bronze Age archaeology, Byzantium, and British imperial history at Yale University, he moved to foreign relations and modern war at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. As Director of Security Studies at Johns Hopkins-SAIS, he widened his view to take on war and society. So broadened, he was asked to turn the State Department's Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs into a real, long-range think tank. He did. Its theme became -- and, in 1988, just in time -- world change. Vlahos was then commissioned to help turn the U.S. Navy's rangefinders toward Big Change, while at the Center for Naval Analyses. In the Foundation, he has found a place that not only sees the ongoing transformation of American life - the Big Change - but that actively seeks to be a part of it. Now Vlahos writes, in print and in the ether, about where we are going and how we will get there.
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