Jerel A Rosati

Jerel Rosati is a Professor of International Studies and Political Science at the University of South Carolina since 1982. His areas of specialization are international relations, American politics, and the theory and practice of foreign policy, focusing on the United States policymaking process, decision-making theory & bureaucratic politics, and the psychological study of political leaders and human cognition. His scholarly and intellectual interests include American history, the Vietnam War and the sixties, the dynamics of world politics and global change, and the rise and decline of civilizations. He has educated and taught hundreds of academics, practitioners and policy-oriented personnel in acquiring post-baccalaureate degrees and certificates all over the world as a Professor, Visiting Scholar, and Fulbright with the support of host institutions and often the Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State. His father had duo-citizenship (American and Italian), and fought in World War II (on the allied side); his mother was born and raised in Florence, Italy and came to the United States as a war bride; and he retains close family in Italy. He was raised in the small multi-ethnic city of Gardena in west LA. He came of age during the early seventies as an undergraduate at U.C.L.A. when the events surrounding the Vietnam War and Watergate reached a crescendo, which had a profound impact on his intellectual and personal development to the present day. He has lived half his life in Los Angeles and half in South Carolina. He has lived abroad in Argentina, Armenia, China, Italy, Somalia, and 'Washington, D.C. He usually visits L.A. twice a year and Italy every other year. He has three children (girl-boy-girl), two studied abroad in Florence, Italy and Barcelona, Spain & a young pup named Gio (for Giovanni). Ph.D., American University, International Relations, 1982 Fields: International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, American Politics Director of Dissertation: G. Matthew Bonham M.A., Arizona State University, Political Science, 1978 Fields: International Relations, American Politics Director of Program: Stephen G. Walker B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1975 Major: Political Science