David Fromkin
 University Professor; Frederick S. Pardee Professor of the Longer-Range Future; Professor of International Relations, History, and Law, College of Arts and Sciences; Director, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
B.A., J.D., University of Chicago; Academic Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.
Professor Fromkin served for three years as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a trial observer, prosecutor and defense counsel. He began his civilian career as an associate of the Wall Street law firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. After a varied career in law, business, and politics, he turned to writing works of history and studies of world politics. His essays have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and other publications. He is the author of seven books, including the national bestseller A Peace to End All Peace (1989), chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the dozen best books of the year and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? (2004). He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1976.
Telephone: 617-358-4002
Email: fromkin@bu.edu
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