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Dr. Charles Cogan |
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Introduction
I am an associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the Kennedy School, Harvard University,
where I concentrate on European issues and in particular on French-American relations. In 2001, I was asked by the United
States Institute of Peace (USIP), which is a publicly-financed think tank in Washington, to do a book on France
in the Institute’s Cross Cultural Negotiations
Project, which examines the manner in which other
countries negotiate. My book became the sixth in
series, after China, Russia, Germany, etc. The book is not
so much on the nuts and bolts of negotiations, as it is on the cultural and historical strands which together form the tissue
of French diplomacy and negotiations. Though I am aware of the dangers of generalization, I contend that there is a French
model that is unique and identifiable. The title of my book is
French Negotiating Behavior: Dealing with ‘la Grande
Nation’ (USIP Press, 2003). Note: to order this book, go to the "Links"
button on this site and click on the URL for the US Institute of Peace Press.
The French-language version of the book, with an update, is entitled Diplomatie à la Française (Editions Jacob-Duvernet, 2005), with a preface by former Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine.
Due
to Diplomatie à la française, I have been awarded the medal of the Prix Ernest
Lémonon of the Académie des Sciences Morales at Politiques (ASMP). Note: to order this book, go to the "Links" button on this site
and click on the link to the book in the URL for Amazon.fr
My overall purpose in setting up this website is to make better
known my book on French negotiating behavior (in both its English and French versions) and to make available in text version
some of the articles I I initially came to Harvard as a Research
Fellow in the Intelligence and Policy Project, a joint (and unclassified) activity of the CIA and the Kennedy School. In 1991, I left the CIA and in 1992 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Public Administration at Harvard. My doctoral
thesis became my first book (Oldest Allies, Guarded Friends: the United States and France Since 1940). It was followed
by six others, as well as by many articles and reviews.
In my 37-year career in the CIA, I spent 23 of them overseas, in generally long tours, respectively in India, Congo, Sudan, Morocco, Jordan and France. From 1979-1984,
I was chief of the Near East and South Asia
Division in the Directorate of Operations, and from 1984-1989, I was CIA chief in Paris.   |
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