Rate My Professor Craig Daigle

Craig Daigle is an Associate Professor of History at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York system. He earned his B.A. from the University of Maryland at College Park, M.A. from James Madison University, and Ph.D. from George Washington University. As a historian of U.S. foreign relations, Daigle specializes in the history of the global Cold War, U.S.-Middle East relations, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His research explores international diplomacy in the twentieth-century Middle East, American relations with the Muslim world, national security strategies, and conflict resolution. He has expanded his focus to include the environmental consequences of the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the transformative impact of the Camp David Accords on the Middle East.

Daigle's scholarly contributions include his acclaimed book, The Limits of Détente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973 (Yale University Press, 2012), which analyzes U.S.-Soviet interactions leading to the 1973 war. He co-edited The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War with Artemy Kalinovsky (Routledge, 2014) and Foreign Relations of the United States, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973 (GPO, 2011). Notable articles feature "Sadat's African Dilemma: Libya, Ethiopia, and the Making of the Camp David Accords" in Cold War History (2019), "Beyond Camp David: Jimmy Carter, Palestinian Self-Determination, and Human Rights" in Diplomatic History (2018), and review essays on 1970s U.S. foreign policy transformations and America's engagement in the Middle East in Reviews in American History (2018) and International Journal of Middle East Studies (2017). Daigle received the 2020-2021 Rifkind Center Faculty Fellowship for his manuscript Rebuilding the Gulf: The Environmental Legacy of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. He teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses at City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, covering U.S. foreign relations, Cold War history, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Vietnam War.