Diplomat to Lead Nov. 15 Talk on U.S., Turkey Relations

Paul Bernard Henze, former senior staff officer of the National Security Council, will discuss the relationship between Turkey and the United States during a presentation at UC's Taft Research Center on Nov. 15. His talk is in conjunction with the Cincinnati Art Museum's reopening of its renovated Ottoman decorative arts gallery.

His talk, hosted by the Political Science Department and the Taft Research Center, is titled "Turkey and the United States: Strategic Partners?"

Henze served for three years in the U.S. Army in Europe in World War II. He received a AB from St. Olaf College in 1948 and an AM from Harvard in 1950, where he completed the Regional Program on the Soviet Union, specializing in history, economics and politics. His dissertation, on Economic Development of Soviet Central Asia, 1919-1939, was published in two parts in the Royal Central Asian Journal in London in 1950.

Henze served for 30 years in a variety of U.S. government and government-related organizations at home and abroad, including Radio Free Europe, the Departments of State and Defense, and American Embassies in Turkey and Ethiopia. His government service culminated in four years as a senior staff officer of the National Security Council under Zbigniew Brzezinski, from 1977-1980, during the Carter administration. He then became a Wilson Fellow at the Smithsonian and from 1982 to 2002, was a Resident Consultant in the Washington office of RAND.

He has also served as a consultant with many other research organizations and has participated in numerous conferences in the U.S. and abroad on Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, China, Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa.

Henze has published extensively on all the subjects in which he specializes. His articles have often been translated into foreign languages, including German, French, Turkish, Russian, Amharic and Chechen.

More details on Henze's Cincinnati appearance can be found here.