Monteagle Stearns: Biographical Note

MONTEAGLE STEARNS served as U.S. Ambassador to Greece from 1981 to 1985. As a career foreign service officer, he was also U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Ivory Coast from 1976 to 1979 and vice president of the National Defense University from 1979 to 1981. Since leaving the foreign service in 1987, he has been Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.; Warburg Professor of International Relations at Simmons College in Boston; Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York; and an associate and affiliate of the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) at Harvard University. In 1992, his book Entangled Allies: U.S. Policy toward Greece, Turkey and Cyprus was published by the council on Foreign Relations. A Greek edition was published the same year by PONTIKI press in Athens. Ambassador Stearns recently completed a book on American diplomacy for the 20th Century Fund, entitled Talking to Strangers: Improving American Diplomacy at Home and Abroad (1996).