Akan Malici is from a Turkish and North Macedonian/Albanian family. He grew up in Germany and received his undergraduate education in Literature and Political Science at the University of Tuebingen. He came to the United States for graduate school in 2000 and he received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2004. Dr. Malici has been teaching at Furman University since 2005. His scholarly interests are in the areas of American Foreign Policy and International Security and he has authored or co-authored various books here, including “When Leaders Learn and When They Don’t: Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung at the End of the Cold War,” “U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes,” and “Role Theory and Role Conflict in U.S.-Iran Relations: Enemies of Our Own Making.”
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