Stanley R. Sloan is the founding Director of the Atlantic Community Initiative, Visiting Scholar in Political Science at Middlebury College, and President of VIC-Vermont, a private consulting firm. He is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Center of the Atlantic Council of the United States and an Associate Fellow of the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy. He is the author of Defense of the West: NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain, forthcoming from Manchester University Press, 2016.Mr. Sloan is available for interviews and presentations in the United States, Canada and abroad. He can be contacted at srs2@wcvt.com.During the Middlebury College Winter Terms from 2005-2007, and in January 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 he taught courses on transatlantic relations, and, in January 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016 presented a course on "American Power: Soft, Hard and Smart." Stan was educated at the University of Maine (BA), Columbia University's School of International Affairs (MIA), and American University's School of International Service (abd PhD). He is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Officers' Training School and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. Stan began his more than three decades of public service at the Central Intelligence Agency in 1967, serving as NATO and European Community desk officer, member of the U.S. Delegation to the Negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, and as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe.He was employed by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress in a variety of analytical and research management positions from 1975-1999, including head of the Office of Senior Specialists. In April 1999, he retired from his position as the Senior Specialist in International Security Policy. During 1997-98, Stan was the rapporteur for the North Atlantic Assembly special presidential report on "NATO in the 21st Century." Mr. Sloan's books and monographs in addition to 2010's "Permanent Alliance?" include: NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged (Rowman and Littlefield, August 2005); The Use of U.S. Power: Implications for U.S. Interests [with Robert Sutter and Casimir Yost] (Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, June 2004); NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Reconsidered (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century: Crisis, Continuity or Change? (Foreign Policy Association, October 2002); The United States and European Defence (Chaillot Paper, Western European Union Institute, April 2000).Stan has lectured widely on US foreign and security policy and Euro-Atlantic security issues in the United States and abroad. He presents frequently at the NATO College in Rome, where, in September 2005, he was named an "Honorary Ancien" of the College to acknowledge his contributions to the College and the NATO alliance, and has lectured extensively for the U.S. public diplomacy program in many countries, most recently the Czech Republic, Slovenia (as a Fulbright Senior Fellow), China, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Germany, Russia and Estonia (as a Fulbright Senior Fellow). In May 2009 he served as moderator and rapporteur for an international conference in The Hague on NATO's new strategic concept. In 2002, Stan was selected as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow and most recently in that capacity lectured at Hampden-Sydney College in February 2007.