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Jowitt has been a professor at UC-Berkeley since 1968. Among other honors and forms of recognition, he won the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 1983, and has been the recipient of two Stanford Hoover fellowships. From 1983 to 1986 he was dean of undergraduate studies at his
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studies. He has published numerous essays, articles, books, and scholarly theses related to these and other Cold War and post-Cold War era subjects.
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Jowitt is noted for receiving standing ovations at the conclusion of his course lectures at UC-Berkeley.
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regime, where he studied the political and cultural dynamics of post-Stalinist Communist Europe.
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He also contributed an essay, entitled "In Praise of the Ordinary: An Essay on Democracy," to
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Focusing on social theory and comparative politics, Jowitt specializes in the study of post-
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Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
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Revolutionary Breakthroughs and National Development: The Case of Romania.
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University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
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Ethnopolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions
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in 1962, Jowitt pursued post-graduate and doctoral studies at the
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Jowitt has taken what some would consider a qualified, anti-
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political scientist
Stanford University
Hoover Institution
Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Ossining, New York
New York City
Columbia University
University of California, Berkeley
Romania
Ceauşescu
alma mater
Stalinist
Eastern Europe
Communist
Leninist
end of history
neoconservative
Francis Fukuyama
Adam Michnik
Wilsonian
War on Terror
David Frum
Middle East
democratic region
2003 invasion of Iraq
Bush administration
realist
War on Terror

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