Parentage: s. of Arkady Schwab and Klara Schwab (née Jacobson)

Family: married Eleonora Storch 1965 (died 1998); three s.

Education: City Univ. of New York, Columbia Univ., New York

Career: began teaching career at Columbia Coll. , Columbia Univ., New York 1959; Lecturer, Dept of History, City Coll. , City University of New York 1960–68, Asst Professor of History 1968–72, Assoc. Professor 1973–79, Professor 1980–2000, Professor Emer. (City Coll. and Grad. Center) 2001–; Co-founder Nat. Cttee on American Foreign Policy, later Vice-Pres. and Sr Vice- Pres., Pres. 1993–, Ed. American Foreign Policy Interests (its journal) 1976–, Global Perspectives in History and Politics series; member Council on Foreign Relations, German Studies Asscn, City University of New York Acad. of Humanities and Sciences, Columbia Univ.'s Seminar on the History of Legal and Political Thought and Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Cttee on Conscience, Washington, DC, Latvian Pres.'s Commission of Int. Historians; has lectured widely on his concept of The Open-Society Bloc at Univ. of Freiburg, Bundeswehrhochschule, Hamburg, Germany and other Institution

Honours and awards: Order of the Three Stars (Latvia) 2002; Ellis Island Medal of Honor 1998

Publications include: Dayez: Beyond Abstract Art 1967, Enemy oder Foe 1968 (ed. English version Telos, No. 72, 1987), The Challenge of the Exception: An Introduction to the Political Ideas of Carl Schmitt 1970, 1989, Appeasement and Détente, Détente in Historical Perspective (ed. and contrib.) 1975, 1981, Ideology and Foreign Policy (ed. and contrib.) 1978, 1981, State and Nation: Towards a Further Clarification, Nationalism: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Snyder, Michael Palumbo and William O. Shausban 1981, Eurocommunism: The Ideological and Political Theoretical Foundations (ed. and contrib.) 1981, Detente in Historical Perspective 1981, Toward a New Foreign Policy, United States Foreign Policy at the Crossroads (ed. and contrib.) 1982, 1988, A Decade of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Power and Policy in Transition 1984, The Destruction of a Family 1987, Elie Wiesel: Between Jerusalem and New York 1990, Thoughts of a Collector 1991, Journey to Belfast and London (co-author) 1999, Carl Schmitt, a Note on a Qualitative Authoritarian Bourgeois Liberal 2000; trans.: The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes 1996, The Concept of the Political 1996, Carl Schmitt's Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty 2005; numerous articles in professional journals

Leisure interest: collecting art

Contact details: Address: National Committee on American Foreign Policy, 320 Park Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York, NY 10022-6839, USA (office); Tel: (212) 224-1120 (office); Fax: (212) 224-2524 (office); Email: george.schwab@ncafp.org (office); Website: http://www.ncafp.org/ (office); Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10803920.asp/ .