H. Bradford Westerfield

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Holt Bradford Westerfield (born March 7, 1928 in Rome , † January 19, 2008 in Watch Hill) was an American political scientist .

Holt Bradford Westerfield was the son of Ray Bert Westerfield , an economics professor at Yale University . He graduated from school at age 16 and graduated from Yale at age 19. At Yale, he was involved in various student committees. He graduated from Harvard with a Ph.D. in constitutional law in 1955. on "Foreign Policy and Party Politics: Pearl Harbor to Korea" . He then taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago and was a fellow of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in the US Congress for a year.

In 1957 he became professor of international relations at Yale University. He was visiting professor and researcher at universities in England, Australia and the USA. In 2001 he was the holder of the "Damon Wells Professor of International Studies" emeritus . His students included George W. Bush , Dick Cheney , John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman, as well as many American political figures over several decades.

In addition to his best-known work “The Instruments of America's Foreign Policy” (1963), he was best known for a book with selected internal papers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , the 1995 “Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles From the Agency's Internal” Journal, 1955-92 ".

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  1. NY Times : "H. Bradford Westerfield, Influential Yale Professor, Is Dead at 79, ” Jan 27, 2008