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American political scientist

Michael G. Roskin (1939 – May 2, 2023) was an American political scientist best known for his multi-edition textbook, Countries and Concepts.

Background

Roskin received his A.B. at the University of California at Berkeley and M.A. at the University of California at Los Angeles.^[1] He served as a journalist and foreign service officer for the U.S.

Information Agency before earning his Ph.D. in international relations at The American University.^[2]

Career

Roskin began teaching at Lycoming College in 1972. Roskin served as Visiting Professor of Foreign Policy at the U.S.

Army War College from 1991 to 1994. He is the author of five political science textbooks.^[3]

In 2008, Roskin retired from teaching, after being named a Fulbright Scholar; he continued to lecture.^[4]

In 2020, Roskin wrote that "anti-Russian accusations have switched parties" from Republicans denouncing Democrats in the