Richard Russell

Richard L. Russell is Catholic convert and an accomplished international relations scholar. He blends his faith and reason to research, write, and lecture about the 20th Century Marian apparitions in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and has held research appointments with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. He taught for nearly ten years graduate courses on international security, grand strategy, and military operations for Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program. Russell also served for seventeen years as a political-military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the author of three books: Sharpening Strategic Intelligence: Why the CIA Gets It Wrong and What Needs to be Done to Get It Right (Cambridge University Press, 2007); Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East (Routledge, 2005); and, George F. Kennan’s Strategic Thought (Praeger, 1999). He has published about thirty journal and magazine articles and fifteen chapters in edited books.