America's Secret Power by Loch K. Johnson

He has held an appointment at the International Summer School in Innsbruck, Austria, and now teaches during the summer in Verona, Italy. From 1997-2001, he led the founding of the new School of Public and International Affairs. The academic track has included service at the University of Georgia since 1979, in both the Departments of Political Science and International Affairs. He has been the Issues Director in a presidential campaign (1976), served as a foreign policy consultant to President Carter in the 1980 re-election campaign, and is a consultant to several government and policy entities (including RAND and the 9/11 Kean Commission). In the government, he has served on the Georgia State Board of Elections (1997-2000) as special assistant to the chairman of the Aspin-Brown Presidential Intelligence Commission (1995-96) as a senior staff member on the Subcommittee on Trade and International Economic Policy, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives (1980) as staff director of the Subcommittee on Intelligence Oversight, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives (1977-79) as special assistant to the ranking minority member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1976-77) and as special assistant to the chairman, Select Senate Committee on Intelligence (1975-76). His professional career has followed two tracks: one in the government and another in academe.

In post-doctoral activities, he was awarded an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship and has studied nuclear weapons policy at Harvard and MIT. in political science from the University of California, Riverside, in 1969. Johnson is Regents Professor of International Affairs.

America's Secret Power by Loch K. Johnson