UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies
UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland | Director: Professor Liam Kennedy
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President Clinton addresses the Institute Sept 2010
Dr. Jack Thompson
Dr. Jack Thompson is Lecturer at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Utrecht, Gent and Swansea.
Research Interests
History of American Foreign Relations
American Political History
Transatlantic Relations
Book Projects
Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Foreign Policy (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan)
America’s Transatlantic Turn: Theodore Roosevelt and the “Discovery” of Europe (co-edited with Hans Krabbendam) (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan)
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
“‘Internationalists in Isolationist times’: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and a Rooseveltian Maxim,” with Dr. J. Simon Rofe, Journal of Transatlantic Studies 9 (March 2011): 46-62
“Theodore Roosevelt and the Press,” in Serge Ricard, ed., A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, New York: Wiley-Blackwell (September 23, 2011)
“‘Panic-Struck Senators, Businessmen and Everybody Else’: Theodore Roosevelt, Public Opinion and the Intervention in Panama,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 32 (Winter/Spring 2011): 7-28
“The Politics of Transatlantic Relations,” Hans Krabbendam and John M. Thompson, eds., America’s Transatlantic Turn: Theodore Roosevelt and the “Discovery” of Europe (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan)
Current Projects
Dr. Thompson is currently working on a biography of Arthur Vandenberg. This project uses Vandenberg, a Republican Senator from Michigan who played a key role in crafting the Cold War consensus, as a vehicle for exploring how the evolution of American political culture during the 1930’s and 1940’s facilitated a shift from isolationism to internationalism.