Peter Frederic Krogh was born in California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 in 1937. In 1958 he graduated from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 with a B.A. cum laude in Economics and later received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

. Since then, prominent positions he has held include White House Fellow, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, and Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of International Affairs

International affairs

International affairs may refer to:* Diplomacy* International relations* International Affairs Association* International Affairs , a peer-reviewed academic journal first published in 1924...

 at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where he served as dean from 1970 to 1995.

Honors

• 2003 Men of Substance and Style Award, Washington Life Magazine, Washington, D.C.
• Austrian Grand Cross of Honour and Gold, 2001
• Endowed Professorship named the Peter F. Krogh Chair in Geopolitics and Justice in International Affairs, Georgetown University, 2000.
• Pacem in Terris Award
  Pacem in Terris Award
  The Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award is a Catholic peace award which has been given annually since 1964, in commemoration of the 1963 encyclical letter "Pacem in Terris" of Pope John XXIII...
  
  , La Roche College
  La Roche College
  La Roche College is a private college in McCandless, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. It was founded in 1963 by the Sisters of Divine Providence as a Roman Catholic college and now sits on an campus in McCandless. The current president, Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D., was installed in...
  
  , 1996
• Doctorate of Laws, Honoris Causa, Georgetown University, 1996
• The Patrick Healy Award of Georgetown University Alumni Association, 1996
• Distinguished Service Award
  Distinguished Service Award
  The Distinguished Service Award is an ambiguous term used often to describe an organization's highest award for services and contributions. Examples include:* Distinguished Service Medal...
  
   of the Foreign Policy Association
  Foreign Policy Association
  The Foreign Policy Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. Founded in 1918, it serves as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding of, and providing informed opinions on global issues...
  
  , 1995
• Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1995
• Edward Weintal Special Citation, 1995
• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1993
• Georgetown University President's Medal, 1990
• Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
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   for "World Beat", 1989
• Honorary Member, Phi Beta Kappa, 1985
• One of 100 Outstanding Young Educators, Change magazine, 1979
• One of Boston's Outstanding Young Men, 1967
• White House Fellowship, 1967
• Honorary Member, The Philodemic Society of Georgetown University

Publications

• “American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective,” Festschrift in honor of Dr. Wolfgang Schürer, St. Gallen University, 2006.
• "It's Time to Fix the Foreign Service,” International Herald Tribune, January 20–21, 2001.
• "Scold and Bomb - Clinton 's Failed Foreign Policy,” The Wall Street Journal, April 28, 1999.
• “America 's Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs Reporting and Diplomatic Capital,” ISD Reports, May 1995.
• "The Galilean New World Order Offers an Opportunity to Seize Quickly," International Herald Tribune, August 17, 1994.
• Palestine Under Occupation: Prospects for the Future, co-editor and contributing author, Georgetown University, 1989.
• "U.S. Foreign Policy in a New World of International Cooperation,” Looking Ahead, The National Planning Association, February, 1989.
• "Failing to Pay the Price in Foreign Affairs,” Washington Star, January 20, 1981.
• "Los Estados Unidos en la Actialid," Carta Politca, Buenos Aires, April, 1979.
• "The Foreign Service and Diplomacy,” Foreign Service Journal, November, 1977.
• "Stubborn Realities and the Requirements of American Foreign Policy,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, August, 1977.
• Secrecy and Openness in Foreign Policy, co-editor and contributing author. Published by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Bonn, 1974.
• "New Directions in American Foreign Policy,” Foreign Policy Journal, September, 1973.
• "Education in Diplomacy,” Foreign Service Journal, April, 1973.
• "Latin America: Policy in a Decade of Change," Foreign Affairs in the Seventies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1971.
• "Military Aid to Latin America,” chapter in Prospects for Latin America, edited by David Smith, Columbia University, 1970.
• "Dimensions of Foreign Affairs in the '70s,”remarks reprinted in the Foreign Service Journal, January, 1969.
• "The State Department at Home,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, January, 1969.

Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives

Between 1981 and 2005, Peter Krogh moderated 270 half-hour PBS television programs spread across three television series, including American Interests, World Beat, and Great Decisions. In each episode, he interviewed experts, leaders, and other notable individuals about relevant topics of the time. Noteworthy individuals interviewed include Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Korbelová Albright is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0...

, Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

, Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to...

, King Hussein, and countless others.

Major Topics/Themes

The Digital Archives cover a wide range of topics relating to foreign affairs

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...

 ranging in date from the late 20th century to the early 21st century, including the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

, Terrorism

Terrorism

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...

, International Diplomacy

Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states...

, Energy

Energy

In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...

, Human Rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

, Immigration

Immigration

Immigration is the act of foreigners passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence...

, Conflict Resolution

Conflict resolution

Conflict resolution is conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of some social conflict. Often, committed group members attempt to resolve group conflicts by actively communicating information about their conflicting motives or ideologies to the rest...

, Democracy

Democracy

Democracy is generally defined as a form of government in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law...

, Defense and National Security

National security

National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...

, Environment

Environment

In general, environment refers to the surroundings of an object, or the Natural environment, all living and non-living things that occur naturally on EarthEnvironment may refer to:...

, Technology

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

, United States Role in the World, and several others.

Regions

The archives also contain videos pertaining to a vast spectrum of different regions, with 17 videos on Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

; 25 videos on Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

; 20 videos on Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, Central America

Central America

Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

, and the Caribbean

Caribbean

The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

; 21 videos on Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, 20 videos on the Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

, 32 videos on Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 and the former USSR; 45 videos on Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

; and several videos on South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

 and Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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External links

• Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives