G. Jonathan Greenwald
G. Jonathan Greenwald, a veteran foreign service officer and former director of the U.S. Department of State's Office of Counter-Terrorism, held the Scarff Professorship in 1998-99, teaching courses in the government department on the origins of war, post-Cold War efforts to build a secure Europe, and the Eastern European revolutions that ended the Cold War.
During a distinguished diplomatic career Greenwald held embassy and consular posts throughout Europe, including Budapest, Madrid, and East Berlin, where he supervised the incarceration of Nazi leader Rudolf Hess. He was serving as political counselor at the U.S. Embassy when the Berlin Wall fell, providing crisis analysis to Washington and later assisting with German unification negotiations.
From 1991-93, in the Office of Counter-Terrorism, he devised diplomatic strategies for dealing with Libya, negotiated U.N. sanctions against Mu'ammar Qadhafi for the Pam-Am 103 bombing, and led a State Department/CIA/Special Forces response team on a classified counter-terrorism mission during the Gulf War.
Most recently, Greenwald served in Brussels, where he helped negotiate the New Transatlantic Agenda on U.S.-European Union ties that President Clinton signed in 1995, defining U.S. political and trade engagements in Europe.
A graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard Law School, Greenwald has written extensively on foreign policy issues and is the author of the 1993 book, Berlin Witness: An American Diplomat's Chronicle of East Germany's Revolution.
On two recent occasions, he has taught in the summer continuing-education seminars at Björklunden, Lawrence's northern campus in Door County, Wisconsin, an experience he describes in this article.
