Matlock, Jack F., Jr.

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MATLOCK, Jack F., Jr.

MATLOCK, Jack F., Jr. American, b. 1929. Genres: International relations/ Current affairs. Career: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, instructor of Russian literature and culture, 1953-56; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, visiting professor of political science, 1978-79; American Foreign Service officer, 1956-91, three tours as member of Moscow staff (before touring as ambassador), 1961-, other posts include Czechoslovakia, Tanzania, Ghana, and Austria, ambassador to U.S.S.R., 1987-91; National Security Council, Washington, DC, special assistant to the President, senior director of European and Soviet affairs, 1983-87; Columbia University, NYC, senior research fellow, 1991-93, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy, 1993-96; Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, George F. Kennan Professor, 1996-; speaker in the fields of national and global affairs, Russia and the former Soviet Union, political leadership, and bureaucratic management. Publications: (with F.C. Holling) An Index to the Collected Works of J.V. Stalin, 1955, reissued, 1971; Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1995. Contributor of articles on U.S. States-Soviet relations, United States and Russian foreign policy, literature, and culture, and the Soviet government to periodicals. Address: c/o Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Dr, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A.