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Lawrence G. Potter
International Affairs Building, Room 1111
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-2584
lgp5@columbia.edu
Biography:
Lawrence G. Potter has taught at Columbia University since 1996 and has been adjunct associate professor of International Affairs since 2002. He has also been deputy director of the Gulf/2000 Project, based at Columbia, since 1994.
Professor Potter's teaching interests include Iranian history and U.S. policy toward the Middle East. Books (coedited with G. Sick) include The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security, and Religion (1997); Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles, and the Search for Consensus (2002); and Iran, Iraq and the Legacies of War (2004). He has published a number of articles and a monograph, "The Persian Gulf in Transition" in the Foreign Policy Association's Headline Series.
He holds a BA from Tufts University (1970), an MA from the University of London (1971), and an MPhil and PhD from Columbia University (1981 and 1992).
Potter previously taught at Bryn Mawr College (1997–98), the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1993–95) and Tufts University (1993–94).