- Phone:
- (812) 856-4647
- Email:
- jkaraaga@indiana.edu
- Room Number:
- 429
- Areas of Interest:
- International Relations and International Policy ,
- American Public Administration ,
- Foreign Policy ,
- Politics and the Political Process ,
- The Presidency ,
- International Political Economy ,
- Political Theory and Public Policy
John Karaagac
Senior Lecturer
Director, Certificate of Applied Research and Inquiry
Education
- Ph.D. with Distinction, International Relations, Johns Hopkins University, 1997
- M.A., International Relations, Cambridge University, 1987
- B.A., History, University of California-Berkeley, 1986
Courses
- Comparative Public Management and Administration
- National & International Policy
- National Security
- Traditions of Inquiry: International Relations Theory and Policy Choices
Biography
Dr. John Karaagac is a political scientist with expertise in the American presidency, domestic and foreign policy, political biography, and international and comparative politics. An IU faculty member for more than a decade, Karaagac lectures on public policy and international relations at O'Neill. He has also taught at the University of Richmond and Johns Hopkins University. In the summers, Karaagac teaches international relations theory and American foreign policy at Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies Summer program where he earned his doctorate with distinction in 1997.
Karaagac has written four books on American policy and the intersection between the presidency and foreign politics, including The Bush Paradox: a Study in Comparative Politics. He also co-authored a book with IU Emeritus Professor Randall Baker, titled Why America Isn't Europe.
Karaagac has written four books on American policy and the intersection between the presidency and foreign politics, including The Bush Paradox: a Study in Comparative Politics. He also co-authored a book with IU Emeritus Professor Randall Baker, titled Why America Isn't Europe.
Highlights
- Trustee's Teaching Award (2016)
- Inaugural Recipient of (2015) Most Creative Teaching Method Award, O'Neill Student Choice Awards
- O'Neill Teaching Award, Undergraduate Instruction (2012, 2013)
- Author of four books on Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and John McCain
- Professorial Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (summers)
Selected Works
- “Wilson in Warsaw,” American Dream (Halina Parafinowicz Ed.). Bialystok, Poland: Trans Humana (2011)
- Why America Isn’t Europe (with R. Baker). Sofia, Bulgaria: Paradigma (2010)
- “Republican foreign policy tendencies in the Truman years: Ideas, traditions and commentary,”Dzieje Najnaowsze (Recent History): Polska Akademia Nauk Institut Historii, 4: 127-134 (2007)
- The Bush Paradox: A Study in Contemporary Politics. Tucson, AZ: Fenestra (2004)
- The Fate of the Father: The Bush Policy Paradox. Tucson, AZ: Fenestra (2004)
- Between Promise and Policy: Ronald Reagan and Conservative Reformism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2000)
- John McCain: An Essay in Military and Political History. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2000)