Programs
Courses Taught
GLBL 201 Introduction to Global AffairsGLBL 382 Energy & Global Affairs
GLBL 499 Senior Seminar
HIS 317 The Cold War and Its Legacies
HIS 358 Modern Middle East
POLS 231 Intro to Comparative Politics
POLS 343 US Foreign Policy
Education
- B.A., International Relations and Foreign Languages, Hendrix College
- Diplome d'etudes approfundies, International Relations (History and Politics), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
- Ph.D., International Relations (History and Politics), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Interests
- History of US Foreign Relations
- US-Middle East Relations
- Modern Middle Eastern History
- Lebanon
- Energy and Infrastructure
Affiliations
- Representative of the historical community on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee- Archivist of United States
Select Works Published
- Beginning of Winter: The George H.W. Bush Administration, the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, and the Emergence of the Post-Cold War World
Stocker, J., Journal of Cold War Studies (forthcoming), 2024 - An Opportunity to Strike a Blow? The United States and the Struggle in the Armenian Apostolic Church, 1956-1963
Stocker, J., Diplomacy and Statecraft, 2018 - The United States and the Struggle in the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, 1955-1960
Stocker, J., Jerusalem Quarterly, 2017 - Trump and Historical Legacies of U.S. Middle East Policy
Stocker, J., H-Diplo/International Security Studies Forum policy series, 2017 - A Historical Inevitability?: Kissinger and US Contacts with the Palestinians (1973-76)
Stocker, J., International History Review, 2017 - Spheres of Intervention: US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon (1967-1976)
Stocker, J., Cornell University Press, 2016 - Fulbright’s Middle East: A Senator’s Influence on American Foreign Policy
Stocker, J., Digest of Middle East Studies, 2015 - Accepting Regional Zero: Nuclear Weapons Free Zones, US Non-Proliferation Policy and Global Security in the Cold War (1957-1968)
Stocker, J., Journal of Cold War Studies, 2015 - No EEZ Solution: The Politics of Oil and Gas in the Eastern Mediterranean
Stocker, J., The Middle East Journal, 2012 - Diplomacy as Counter-Revolution: The ‘Moderate States’, the Fedayeen and State Department Initiatives towards the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1969-1970)
Stocker, J., Cold War History, 2012
Philosophy
Though I teach a variety of courses in global affairs, history, and political science, my main areas of interest are the history of U.S. foreign relations and the contemporary Middle East. In all of my classes, I challenge students to think critically and systematically about the contemporary world and to make connections between the past, the present, and many possible futures. To be successful in today’s world, students must understand the relationship between their own lives and the world around them. To be global citizens, they need to empathize with people far beyond our country’s borders.
I am currently writing a book on the role that transportation pathways played in relations between Native Americans and European settlers from the colonial period to the early American Republic.
