‘Washington Rules’ author Andrew Bacevich to speak at Chapman

Andrew Bacevich, an influential historian and best-selling author specializing in international relations, will speak about his new book, America’s War for the Greater Middle East, on Tuesday, April 5, at 8 p.m. at Chapman University. The event will be held in the Lyon Conference Center, Argyros Forum 209.

Time magazine calls Bacevich “one of the most provocative — as in thought-provoking — national-security writers out there today.” His bestseller, Washington Rules, is a critique of the country’s military industrial complex. In his previous book, The Limits of Power, he deconstructed decades of disastrous foreign policies. His other books include The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War, and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy. Bacevich has also written for The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs and The New York Times, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Bacevich is a professor of international Relations and History at Boston University; he previously taught at Johns Hopkins University and at West Point, from which he graduated in 1969. Bacevich also holds a Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton. With the Army, he served during the Vietnam War, and has held posts in Germany and the Persian Gulf. He retired as a Colonel in the early 1990s.

His talk is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing after the talk.