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James George Stavridis (born February 15, 1955) is the 12th Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the oldest school in the United States dedicated solely to graduate studies in international affairs. He is also Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Naval Institute.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.usni.org/board-directors )〕 Stavridis is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 15th Commander, U.S. European Command (USEUCOM, May 2009 – May 2013) and NATO's 16th Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR, June 2009 – May 2013). He is the first Navy officer to have held these positions. His book ("The Accidental Admiral" ) describing his tenure in these jobs was published on October 1, 2014. Previously, he served as Commander, U.S. Southern Command from October 2006 to June 2009. Stavridis is a 1976 distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He earned a PhD and Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in International Relations in 1984, where he won the Gullion Prize as outstanding student. He is also a 1992 distinguished graduate of the United States National War College. He is an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy〔http://gcsp.ch/About-Us/Global-Fellowship-Initiative/Associate-Fellows/Admiral-Jim-STAVRIDIS-USN-Ret〕 ==Personal history== Stavridis was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, the son of Shirley (née Schaffer) and P. George Zafiris Stavridis. He is married to Laura Hall, author of ''Navy Spouses Guide''. His grandparents were Pontic Greeks born and raised in northeastern Anatolia, who emigrated to the United States. His 2008 book, ''Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command'', goes into more detail about his Greek refugee origins. He wrote, In the early 1920's, my grandfather, a short, stocky Greek schoolteacher named Dimitrios Stavridis, was expelled from Turkey as part of 'ethnic cleansing' (read pogrom) directed against Greeks living in the remains of the Ottoman Empire. He barely escaped with his life in a small boat crossing the Aegean Sea to Athens and thence to Ellis Island. His brother was not so lucky and was killed by the Turks as part of the violence directed at the Greek minority. A NATO exercise off the coast of modern Turkey was the "most amazing historical irony () could imagine," and prompted Stavridis to write of his grandfather: "His grandson, who speaks barely a few words of Greek, returns in command of a billion-dollar destroyer to the very city - Smyrna, now called İzmir - from which he sailed in a refugee craft all those years ago." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James G. Stavridis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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