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Douglas A. Brook, Visiting Professor  

Office Location: Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-7316
Email Address: doug.brook@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    Ph.D., George Mason University, 2001
    M.P.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1967
    BA, University of Michigan, 1965
    A.B., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1965

    Office Hours:
    Thursdays 3:00-4:00 pm

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Brook, D; Pearson, J. "Racial Representation in Durham County Jury List." (June, 2023): 1-89.  [abs]
    2. Brook, DA. "Making the Unipolar Moment: US Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order." Public Administration Review 78.4 (July, 2018): 652-655.
    3. Brook, DA. "When the World Seemed New: George Bush and the End of the Cold War." Public Administration Review 78.4 (July, 2018): 652-655.
    4. Brook, DA. "Hal Brands, Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016). 362 pp. $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781501702723. Jeffrey A. Engel, When the World Seemed New: George Bush and the End of the Cold War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). 484 pp. $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780547423067." Public Administration Review 78.4 (January, 2018): 652-655. [doi]
    5. Brook, DA. "Leading Change in Public Organizations." Public Administration Review 76.6 (January, 2016): 977-981. [doi]

    Curriculum Vitae

    Highlight:
    Douglas A. Brook is Visiting Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is also Emeritus Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. At NPS he was Dean of the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Defense Management Research. 

    Brook has served in four presidentially-appointed positions. While on leave from NPS he served a 14-month tour in the Pentagon serving first as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management & Comptroller) and later as Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer. From 1990 to 1992 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management).  In 1992 he was Acting Director of the U. S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

    Brook holds a B.A. degree in political science and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Michigan. In 2001 he earned his Ph.D. in Public Policy at George Mason University. 

     He and his wife, Mariana, reside in Elon, N.C.

    Douglas A. Brook