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Executive Director
Kenneth M. Jensen
On December 11, 1995, Kenneth M. Jensen became the first executive
director of ACFR. A founding staff member and officer in the corporation
at the United States Institute of Peace, Dr. Jensen directed the Institute's
Research and Studies Program for 8 years. During that time, he developed
a wide range of policy-support programs and coordinated the Institute's
work on the former Soviet Union and East Europe. He holds B.A. and Ph.D.
Degrees in History (with Russian minors) from the University of Colorado,
and also did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and Moscow State
University (USSR). A veteran of ten years of college teaching, most lately
at Kenyon College in Ohio, he occasionally teaches U.S. Foreign Policy
in the School for National Security Executive Education at the National
Defense University. His 14 published books include Beyond Marx and
Mach: A.A. Bogdanov's Filosofiia zhivogo opyta, The Emergence
of Russian Foreign Policy (edited with Leon Aron of the American
Enterprise Institute, 1994), The Origins of the Cold War: The Novikov,
Kennan and Roberts 'Long Telegrams' of 1946 (1991 and 1993 editions),
and Approaches to Peace: An Intellectual Map (edited with W.
Scott Thompson, 1990). Dr. Jensen is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Committee on the Present Danger. Dr. Jensen can be reached
at kjensen@acfr.org.
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