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Robert Strong

Fast Facts

  • Emeritus professor, Washington and Lee University
  • Fulbright Scholar, University College Dublin (2013-14)
  • Former associate provost, Washington and Lee University
  • Expertise on the presidency, U.S. foreign policy, Jimmy Carter

Areas Of Expertise

  • Foreign Affairs
  • American Defense and Security
  • Governance
  • Elections
  • Political Parties and Movements
  • Politics
  • The Presidency

Robert (Bob) Strong is emeritus professor at Washington and Lee University and was a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin for the 2013-14 academic year. In 2005, he was a visiting scholar at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University.

Strong earned his PhD at the University of Virginia and before W&L taught at Tulane University and the University College of Wales. 

Strong's research involves national security issues and presidential foreign policy decisions in the modern era. His book publications include Character and Consequence: Foreign Policy Decisions of George H. W. BushWorking in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy and Decisions and Dilemmas: Case Studies in Presidential Foreign Policy Making Since 1945.   

From 2008 to 2013, Strong served in senior administrative positions at Washington and Lee, first as associate provost and then as interim provost. He has published essays in a variety of journals and national newspapers.  His recent speeches and op-eds can be found here.

 

Robert Strong News Feed

An analysis from Robert A. Strong, a senior fellow with the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, found that the president’s party has lost seats in the House in 90% of the midterm elections over the past 80 years.
Robert Strong NJ.com
In a famous passage in Federalist No. 51, James Madison explains how the American system of checks and balances can protect us from tyranny: The three separate branches of government will compete, and each will have the ability to push back against abuses of power by the others. The pushback won’t happen because the leaders in Congress, the White House, or the courts are wise and virtuous; it will happen because they are ambitious.
Robert Strong Notes from the Miller Center
Since 1946, there have been 20 midterm elections. In 18 of them, the president’s party lost seats in the House of Representatives. That’s 90% of the midterm elections in the past 80 years.
Robert Strong The Conversation
“He is not a president who is drastically expanding his powers abroad, because he already had those powers. The question is whether he will use them judiciously,” notes Robert Strong, professor emeritus at Washington University and Lee University, in a videoconference organized by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
Robert Strong El País
The United States’ recent military intervention in Venezuela and the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have drawn comparisons to the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama and the arrest of Manuel Noriega.
Robert Strong UVA Today
The Trump administration’s military intervention in Venezuela and the arrest of Nicolas Maduro is understandably being compared to the 1989 invasion of Panama under President George H. W. Bush and the arrest of Manuel Noriega. Though the two events have much in common, the differences between them are also significant.
Robert Strong Miller Center Presents