Archie Brown

Archie Brown is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. A Fellow of the British Academy since 1991 and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003, he is the author of numerous books and articles. They include The Gorbachev Factor, 1996; Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective, 2007, The Rise and Fall of Communism, 2009; and The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age, 2014, chosen by Bill Gates as one of the best four books he read in 2016.