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Gary Dempsey

Foreign Policy Analyst

Gary T. Dempsey specializes in post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy, with an emphasis on Southeast European affairs and the limits of peacekeeping and nation building. He is the editor of Exiting the Balkan Thicket (2002) and author of Fool's Errands: America's Recent Encounters with Nation Building (2001). His academic articles have appeared in National Security and the Future, Mediterranean Quarterly, and the Southern Journal of Philosophy. Dempsey's opinion articles have been published in numerous American newspapers, including the Journal of Commerce, Investor's Business Daily, Christian Science Monitor, and the Washington Times, and in foreign newspapers such as Exoysia in Greece, Sega in Bulgaria, and Glas Javnosti and Blic in Yugoslavia. He has served three times as an international elections supervisor in Bosnia-Herzegovina for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. In 2000, Dempsey produced a documentary film, Collateral Damage: The Balkans After NATO's Air War. It was featured in several film festivals, including the 2000 United Nations Association Human Rights Film Festival and the San Antonio Documentary Film Festival. Dempsey received his undergraduate degree in international relations from Rutgers University in 1991 and his master's degree from the College of William and Mary in 1995.

Media Contact: 202-842-0200 x800
To Book a Speaking Engagement: 202-789-5226
E-Mail: gdempsey@cato.org

Speaking Topics

• Balkans
• Europe
• Foreign Policy
• NATO and European Security
• General Strategy and U.S. Foreign Policy
• United Nations, International Organizations, and Treaties

Selected Television Appearances

Gary Dempsey discusses the International Criminal Court on CNN's Diplomatic License. [Real Video]

Gary Dempsey is featured in a CBS News package on American involvement in Kosovo. [Real Media]

Watch Collateral Damage: The Balkans After NATO's Air War, a documentary produced by Gary Dempsey. [Real Media]

Published Works by Gary Dempsey

"Old Folly in a New Disguise: Nation Building to Combat Terrorism," Cato Policy Analysis No. 429, March 21, 2002.

"America Leads by Leaving the ICC," A Cato Daily Commentary, March 10, 2002.

Exiting the Balkan Thicket, edited by Gary T. Dempsey, March 2002.

"Promoting Afghanistan," by Gary Dempsey and Aaron Lukas, A Cato Daily Commentary, January 23, 2002.

Fool's Errands: America's Recent Encounters with Nation Building (June, 2001).

"Kosovo Crossfire," Mediterranean Quarterly (1998).

"Rethinking the Dayton Agreement: Bosnia Three Years Later," Cato Policy Analysis No. 327, December 14, 1998.

"Washington's Kosovo Policy: Consequences and Contradictions," Cato Policy Analysis No. 321, October 8, 1998.

"Reasonable Doubt: The Case against the Proposed International Criminal Court," Cato Policy Analysis No. 311, July 16, 1998.

"Hayek's Evolutionary Epistemology," Evolution and Cognition, 1996.