Simon Serfaty

Zbigniews Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, Senior Adviser, Europe Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Professor Simon Serfaty is a prolific writer on transatlantic and intra-European issues. Some of his most recent books include Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War (2008), Vital Partnership: Power and Order (2005), La tentation impériale (2004), and many others. He is also the editor and principal author of many other books prepared various groups of American and European experts and personalities he gathered to work on major issues of vital interest to the United States and the states of Europe. These include, most recently, A Recast Partnership? Institutional Dimensions of Transatlantic Relations (2008) and Visions of the Atlantic Alliance (2005). Professor Serfaty is currently writing a book on the post-Western world and its implications for U.S. and European interests and policies. An occasional witness for the U.S. Congress and some legislative bodies in Europe, including the European Parliament, he holds a PhD in political science from the Johns Hopkins University. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, and a naturalized U.S. citizen since 1965, Professor Serfaty was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in July 2008. The first holder of the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geopolitics at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, where he previously directed the Europe Program (1994-2004), Dr. Serfaty is also a professor of US foreign policy and Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.