Joshua Muravchik
Joshua Muravchik is a scholar formerly at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and now a fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University.
Muravchik received an undergraduate degree from City College of New York, and a Ph.D in international relations from Georgetown University.
Muravchik was National Chairman of the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) from 1968 to 1973. he was one of the leaders of the tendency that drove the YPSL to the right and caused it to abandon, temporarily, its socialist principles.
He has been an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics since 1992. He served on the Maryland State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1985 to 1997 and was a member of the Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China in 1992. Additionally, he has been an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy since 1986 and was executive director of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority from 1977 to 1979. He is an editorial board member of World Affairs and Journal of Democracy. He was also an aide to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[1]
Muravchik is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he researches Middle East politics, democracy, and the history of socialism. He is also a patron of the Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank based in Cambridge. He is also a self described neo-conservative[2]
In 2006, he called for the bombing of Iran.[3][context needed]
[edit] Further reading
- Nicaragua's slow march to communism Washington, D.C. : Cuban American National Foundation, 1986
- Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, Encounter Books, 2002, hardcover, 417 pages, ISBN 1-893554-45-7
- Bomb Iran, The Los Angeles Times, November 19, 2006
- Can the Neocons Get Their Groove Back?, The Washington Post, November 19, 2006]
- The Past, Present, and Future of Neoconservatism, Commentary, October 2007
- The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East, Encounter Books, 2009, hardcover, 350 pages, ISBN 978-1594032325
[edit] References
- Adapted from the Wikinfo article, "Joshua Muravchik" http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Joshua_Muravchik March 11, 2004
[edit] External links
- Memo to fellow neoconservatives
- Article in National Review Online on his socialist roots
- PBS - Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
[edit] Listening
- Debate about Iraq featuring Joshua Muravchik from Democracy Now! program, November 15, 2006
- Joshua Muravchik, Bomb Iran, The Los Angeles Times, November 19, 2006
- Can the Neocons Get Their Groove Back? Joshua Muravchik, Can the Neocons Get Their Groove Back?, The Washington Post, November 19, 2006
