Presidential search, 1992

David Finley began teaching at Colorado College in 1963. He was Dean of the Faculty and College from 1987 to 1992, returning to the Political Science department as a full-time professor in 1993. He retired from the college in 1998 but continued teaching for many years. Finley received a Ph. D. from Stanford University in 1966 and a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1955. He was a member of APSA, AAASS, and the International Studies Association. He authored (with Jan F. Triska) Soviet Foreign Policy (Macmillan, 1968); the essays "Market Liberalization and Democratic Politics: Perspectives from the Russian Experience" (1996), "Domestic Roots of Foreign Policy under Khrushchev and Gorbachev" (1992), and "The United States and the soviet Union in Space" (1989). He was a specialist in post-Soviet politics and regularly taught courses in comparative politics in Russia and Eastern Europe, and Russian foreign policy.