Rosecrance received his BA from Swarthmore College, and his MA and PhD under William Yandell Elliott from Harvard University.
He served on the Policy Planning Council of the U.S. Department of State and has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, Rockefeller, Ford, and many other fellowships.
Rosecrance has held visiting positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, King's College London, the London School of Economics, the European University Institute (Florence), and the Australian National University.
Rosecrance was adjunct professor in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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