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Dr. John Karaagac is a political scientist and Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington's O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, where he serves as Director of the Certificate of Applied Research and Inquiry. With expertise in the American presidency, domestic and foreign policy, political biography, and international and comparative politics, Karaagac has been a faculty member at IU for more than a decade. He lectures on public policy and international relations, offering courses including Comparative Public Management and Administration, National and International Policy, National Security, and Traditions of Inquiry: International Relations Theory and Policy Choices. His research interests include international relations and international policy, American public administration, foreign policy, politics and the political process, the presidency, international political economy, and political theory and public policy. Karaagac earned his Ph.D. with Distinction in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University in 1997, an M.A. in International Relations from Cambridge University in 1987, and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. He previously taught at the University of Richmond and Johns Hopkins University, and continues as a Professorial Lecturer in American Foreign Policy during summers at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies, where he also instructs on international relations theory and American foreign policy. As affiliated faculty with the Polish Studies Center, he examines Poland's involvement in international relations, politics, and policy.