Dr. David Milne is a historian and analyst of US foreign policy. His first monograph America’s Rasputin was published in 2008 and reviewed to acclaim in over thirty outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The National Interest, Diplomatic History and the American Historical Review. In 2011 the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times journalist Stephen Glain named America’s Rasputin one of his five “must-read” books on American militarism for thebrowser.com.

David’s current project explores the different ways in which humanities and social science graduates approach foreign policymaking. To give one example, the historian George Kennan and political scientist Paul Wolfowitz had very different views on the limits and possibilities of US power – the former privileged craft and intuition, the latter the ambitious testing of “theory.” Their scholarly backgrounds played a large role in shaping the approaches they advocated. A book that examines this phenomenon from the Spanish-American War to the present, The Art and Science of American Diplomacy will be published in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Dr. Milne is also a senior editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (forthcoming with Oxford University Press in two volumes in 2013). He was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University in 2003, a senior fellow at the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History in New York City in 2005, and a visiting fellow at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia in 2009. David has also secured funding from the Kennedy Library, the Johnson Library, the British Academy, and was awarded an AHRC Research Fellowship in 2011.

In addition to the above, David’s research has appeared in The Journal of Military History, Review of International Studies, International Affairs, the International Journal, and the Historical Journal. An admirer of Richard Hofstadter’s example as a public educator – a scholar who believed that historians must do more to engage with the present – David has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The New Statesman.