Dr. Mietek Boduszynski

Mietek Boduszynski (Arabic, Japanese, Albanian, Croatian-Bosnian-Serbian, Polish, and French) is a recently-retired U.S. diplomat, whose most recent posting was as Public Affairs Officer (PAO) in Libya. As a diplomat, he helped develop civil society organizations in Albania, supported the Final Status process in Kosovo, promoted scientific collaboration in Tokyo. He is currently Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Pomona College, where he teaches courses on U.S. Foreign Policy and the Arab Spring. He is the author of a book on democratic transition in the Balkans, and a number of articles on Balkan politics and international justice, and in the fall of 2013 will publish two articles on Libya, in the Journal of Democracy and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.