Bruce W. Jentleson, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Office Location: 176 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-9208
Email Address: bwj7@duke.edu
Web Page:http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/PublicPolicy/faculty/bwj
Areas of Expertise
- International
- Conflict Prevention and Peacekeeping
- Globalization
- Middle East
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- United Nations and International Institutions
Education:
PhD, Cornell University, 1983
American Political Science Association Harold D. Lasswell Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Policy Studies, 1985
M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1975
B.A., Cornell University, 1973
Semester Program, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 1972
Research Categories: International Relations and American Foreign Policy
Research Description: My principal areas of research and writing continue to be on post-Cold War American foreign policy, international security and particularly issues of force and diplomacy. Recent work includes "America's Hard Sell," with Steven Weber published as the cover story in Foreign Policy (Nov/Dec 2008), and a coauthored policy paper, "Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy," issued July 24, 2008 by the Phoenix Initiative.
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- B.W. Jentleson. American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century. 3rd edition W.W. Norton, 2007.
- B.W. Jentleson. "America's Global Role After Bush." Survival (Autumn, 2007).
- B.W. Jentleson. "Who 'Won' Libya? The Force-Diplomacy Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Policy." International Security 30.3 (Winter, 2005-06). (with Christopher A. Whytock)
Highlight:
Bruce Jentleson is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, where he served from 2000-2005 as Director, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He is a leading scholar on American foreign policy and also has substantial policy experience.
His publications include numerous articles and books including American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, a leading university text (W.W. Norton, third edition, 2007) and Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized: Preventive Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World, a project of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). His recent work includes “America’s Hard Sell” with Steven Weber Foreign Policy Nov/Dec 2008 cover story); “America’s Global Role after Bush,” Survival. (Autumn 2007); “Who ‘Won’ Libya: The Force-Diplomacy Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Policy” (with Christopher A. Whytock), International Security (Winter 2005-06) and “Yet Again: Humanitarian Intervention and the Challenges of ‘Never Again’” in Chester Crocker, et al, Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World (U.S. Institute of Peace, 2007). His next books--- The New Age of Ideology: The 21st Century Global Competition of Ideas (with Steven Weber), Force and Diplomacy: Striking a Balance, and Profiles in Statesmanship --- are in the works.
During the 2008 presidential campaign he was a member of the Phoenix Initiative and a co-author of Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy, as well as on the Preventive Diplomacy Expert Advisory Group to the National Commission on Genocide Prevention and the Presidential Task Force on Preventing Regional Instability from Iran’s Nuclear Progress of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. In 1999-2000 he served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore and his presidential campaign. In 1993-94 he was on the State Department Policy Planning Staff as Special Assistant to the Director, with a broad range of policy responsibilities, including serving on the U.S. delegation to the Middle East Multilateral Arms Control and Regional Security Talks (ACRS).
He currently is Program Co-Chair for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Close Up Foundation.
Prior to coming to Duke, Jentleson was Professor at the University of California-Davis and Director of the UC Davis Washington Center. He also has held research appointments at the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Brookings Institution, Oxford University, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Spain.
He has served as a consultant to the Carnegie Commission for Preventing Deadly Conflict, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Assembly, the Atlantic Council, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has lectured internationally including in Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea and Switzerland. He is often quoted in the press and has appeared on such shows as ABC Nightline, the Lehrer News Hour, and BBC.
He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and was recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Harold D. Lasswell Award for his doctoral dissertation; a Master's from the London School of Economics and Political Science; and a Bachelor’s degree also from Cornell.
He is married to Dr. Barbara Cooney Jentleson, Director of Duke’s Project HOPE and faculty member in the Program in Education. They have two children, Adam (27) and Katie (24).
