Augustus Richard Norton

Augustus Richard Norton (September 2, 1946 – February 20, 2019) was an American professor and army officer. He was a professor of international relations and anthropology at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He was best known for his writing on Middle East politics, and as an occasional commentator on U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Background Norton was born in New York City, New York in Brooklyn.

He was a graduate of the University of Miami.

After being commissioned from the ranks in 1967, Norton served two combat tours in Vietnam as an airborne infantry officer. In 1980-81, he served as an unarmed United Nations observer with UNTSO in southern Lebanon.

Norton received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1984.

In 2006, Norton was an advisor the Iraq Study Group, also known as the Baker-Hamilton Commission.

He served as the founding chairman of the executive committee of the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies (BCARS). BCARS was founded in 2013.