Andrew Bacevich is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University, where he directed the Center for International Relations from 1998 to 2005. A West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran with a Ph.D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton, he served in the U.S. Army, retiring as a colonel, before teaching at West Point, Johns Hopkins, and Boston University. In 2019 he co-founded the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a transpartisan think tank advocating military restraint and diplomacy; he served as its president and is now Emeritus Board Chair. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books, including The New American Militarism, The Limits of Power, Washington Rules, America’s War for the Greater Middle East, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory, and On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century. In 2024 he published his first novel, Ravens on a Wire, and received the Quincy Award for Responsible Statecraft.
