The top foreign policy influencers in Boston (slideshow)

U.S. foreign policy isn't just hashed out in Washington, D.C. or New York City. It's being shaped and made right here in the Boston area. Generals, diplomats, and other top government officials often take teaching posts in some of the estimated 50 local institutions of higher learning after their terms of public service are concluded, educating the next generation of foreign policy leaders. And some of the public intellectuals who have influenced U.S. foreign policy call the Hub home. In the be

U.S. foreign policy isn't just hashed out in Washington, D.C. or New York City. It's being shaped and made right here in the Boston area. Generals, diplomats, and other top government officials often take teaching posts in some of the estimated 50 local institutions of higher learning after their terms of public service are concluded, educating the next generation of foreign policy leaders. And some of the public intellectuals who have influenced U.S. foreign policy call the Hub home. In the be…