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Dr. Larry T. Caldwell, Cecil H. and Louise Gamble Professor of
Politics, joined the Occidental College faculty in 1967. He is
an expert in Soviet and post-Soviet foreign and military
policies, on arms control and on U.S. national security policy.
A graduate of the College of Wooster, he received his M.A.,
M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy. He has served as research associate at the
International Institute of Strategic Studies in London; as a
visiting professor and Director of European Studies at the
National War College in Washington, D.C.; as a Scholar in
Residence in the Office of Soviet Analysis at the CIA from
1981-83; and as a staff member and consultant at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory from 1983-85 and at the Rand Corporation
from 1985-89. He taught in the Rand-UCLA Center for Soviet
Studies graduate program from 1987 to 1993. He had previously
taught at Wellesley College, USC and UCLA, and for over almost
two decades he has taught an annual course for the Pasadena
Senior Curriculum.
He has held Ford,
Rockefeller, and NATO research grants, testified before Senate
and House committees and has advised several congressional and
presidential campaigns. He authored Soviet and American
Attitudes Towards S.A.L.T. (London, 1971), Soviet and
American Relations: One Half Decade of Detente (Paris,
1976), U.S.-Soviet Relations in the 1980's with William
Diebold, Jr. (New York, 1980), and numerous articles on Soviet
foreign and military policies. He has been a frequent
commentator in the national and Los Angeles media. Since 1991,
he has been at work on the letters of Sir Ivor Heron-Maxwell, a
British military intelligence officer during the Russian
Revolution, and since 2003 he has been a part of a team of
historians and political scientists working on a volume in honor
of Marshall D. Shulman, Twenty-First Century Russian Foreign
Policy and the Shadow of the Past, edited by Robert
Legvold. Caldwell’s contribution is a chapter called “Russian
Concepts of National Security.” |
