Robert English

In 2001, he received the Marshall Shulman Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

He wrote parts of Rebirth: A Political History of Europe Since World War II with Cyril E. Black, Jonathan E. Helmreich, and A. James McAdams in 1999. In 2000, he co-edited My Six Years With Gorbachev: Notes from a Diary with Jack F. Matlock, Jr. and Elizabeth Tucker, which is the account of Anatoly S. Chernyaev's time as an aide to Mikhail Gorbachev.

In 1996, English won the Harold D. Lasswell Prize from the American Political Science Association for the work that he later used in writing Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War.

He worked in the US Department of Defense from 1982 to 1986 and the Committee for National Security between 1986 and 1988. He taught as an assistant professor at the Bologna Center in the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Relations before he became assistant professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California.

Robert David English (born 1958) is an American academic, author, historian, and international relations scholar who specializes in the history and politics of contemporary Eastern Europe, the USSR, and Russia. He is currently an associate professor of International Foreign Policy and Defense Analysis at the University of Southern California School of International Relations.

He was an actor, known for The Four Feathers (1921), A Lost Leader (1922) and Honeymoon for Three (1935).

Robert English was born on December 2, 1874 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England as Ernest Robert Maling English.