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Biography
Harvey Sicherman was an American writer and foreign policy expert. He served as the President and Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, located in Philadelphia, from 1993 until 2010.His interests lay in the analysis of U.S. foreign policy and national security, as well as in the areas of Western Europe, the Middle East, and International Economics.Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1945, Sicherman died on December 25, 2010.
Education
In 1966, Sicherman earned a B.A. in History from the University of Scranton and completed his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1971 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Salvatori Fellowship.
Career
Sicherman served as the Associate Director for Research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) from 1978 through 1980.He then served as Special Assistant to the then Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, from 1981 to 1982.Following this, from 1982 to 1987, Sicherman was a consultant for the Secretary of the Navy, John F. Lehman, Jr. and in 1988, he was a consultant for Secretary of State George Shultz.From 1991 to 1992, Sicherman was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of Secretary of State James A. Baker, III.