Robert Finn (diplomat)
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Robert Patrick John Finn (born December 19, 1945) is an American scholar of Turkish Studies and International Relations, and was the first United States ambassador to Afghanistan in more than 20 years, from March 22, 2002, until August 1, 2004.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was succeeded by Zalmay Khalilzad.
Life
Finn grew up in the Parkchester planned community in the Bronx, in New York City<ref name=WSJ>Template:Cite news</ref> and earned a B.A. in American Literature and European History with honors from St. John's University, an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 1978. Finn's doctoral dissertation was titled "The early Turkish novel: 1872-1900."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He currently holds a professorship there in Turkic studies and international relations. He speaks fifteen languages, including most Central Asian tongues.
Finn was a member of the Foreign Service from 1978 to August 2005. In 1992, he opened (as chargé d'affaires) the United States embassy to Azerbaijan and served as charge and deputy chief of mission there for three years. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan from 1998 through 2001. He has also served in Turkey, Croatia and Pakistan.
Works
- The Early Turkish Novel, 1872-1900 (Isis Press, 1984)
- Translations
- Editor
- (with Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber) of Building State and Security in Afghanistan (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2007); Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, 2007, Template:ISBN
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- 1945 births
- Living people
- Ambassadors of the United States to Azerbaijan
- Ambassadors of the United States to Tajikistan
- Ambassadors of the United States to Afghanistan
- St. John's University (New York City) alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science alumni
- United States Foreign Service personnel
- Politicians from the Bronx
- Parkchester, Bronx
- 20th-century American diplomats
- 21st-century American diplomats