Paul Gordon Lauren is an American historian and Regents Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Montana.

Books Diplomats and Bureaucrats. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1976. Diplomacy: New Approaches in History, Theory, and Policy. New York: Free Press, 1979. The China Hands Legacy: Ethics and Diplomacy. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987. Power and Prejudice: The Politics and Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination. Boulder: Westview Press, 1988. 2nd Ed., HarperCollins, 1996. Destinies Shared. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 3rd Ed., 2011. Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time. 5th Ed. (with Gordon A. Craig and Alexander George) New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

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