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person1936–

Charles Hill

Disciplines:
geopolitics/diplomacy
higher education/yale
military strategy/grand strategy
state dept

Summary

American diplomat and Yale professor — co-founder of the Brady-Johnson Grand Strategy Program at Yale with John Gaddis — former executive aide to Secretary of State George Shultz — one of the most distinguished career Foreign Service Officers of his generation.

Core Contribution

Co-creates Yale's Grand Strategy program as the premiere liberal arts approach to strategic education — Hill and Gaddis's program (reading Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and Churchill together) became the model for strategic literacy education at elite universities.

Notable Works & Achievements

Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism

Historical Influences

George Shultz Thucydides

Intellectual Lineage

Brown University Foreign ServiceState Dept under ShultzYale Hoover Institution

Contemporaries & Peers

John Lewis Gaddis Kissinger

Minds Influenced

Grand strategy education

Intellectual Posterity

Yale Grand Strategy programTrial of a Thousand Years

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