Gary Jonathan Bass is an American author and academic.[1][2] He is a professor of politics and international relations in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.[3][4]
Gary J. Bass | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Professor, academic, reporter |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | International Relations |
| Sub-discipline | International security, human rights, international justice, international law |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
Bass graduated from Harvard University[4] with a BA and PhD. Bass is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War[5] at Princeton University, where he teaches politics and international relations.[6] His book about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, was a Pulitzer prize non-fiction finalist in 2014.[7][8][9] The Council on Foreign Relations awarded the book the Arthur Ross Book Award.[10] It also won the Lionel Gelber Prize[11] and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.[8]
A former reporter for The Economist,[12] Bass has also written articles for the New York Times,[13][14][15] The Harvard Crimson,[16] Foreign Policy,[17] The New Yorker,[18] The Boston Globe,[19] The New Republic,[20][21] and The Atlantic.[22]
Bibliography
- Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia, Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction)[23][24]
- Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.[25]
- Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals, Princeton University Press, 2002.[25]