Arthur I. Cyr is the director of the A.W. Clausen Center for World Business at Carthage, a first-class learning facility that prepares students for business leadership in our global economy. Prior to coming to Carthage, he served as president of the Chicago World Trade Center Association, the vice president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, a faculty member and administrator at the University of California-Los Angeles, and an executive at the Ford Foundation in the International and Education Divisions. He is the author of four books on international relations and British politics, and is currently a columnist for Scripps Howard News Service. He joined the Carthage faculty in 1998. Read more.