Publications of Bruce W. Jentleson    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

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Books

  1. Jentleson, B. Economic Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2021.
  2. Jentleson, BW. The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship. W. W. Norton & Company, April, 2018. 416 pages pp.  [abs]
  3. Pauly, LW; Jentleson, BW. Power in a complex global system. January, 2014. 1-260 pp.  [abs]
  4. Jentleson, BW. American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century (Fifth Edition). W. W. Norton, July, 2013. 768 pages pp.  [abs]
  5. B.W. Jentleson. American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 5th edition forthcoming  2013.
  6. B.W. Jentleson and Steven Weber. The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas. Harvard University Press, 2010.
  7. B.W. Jentleson. American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century.4th edition W.W. Norton, 2010.
  8. Jentleson, BW. Perspectives on American Foreign Policy Readings and Cases. W. W. Norton, 2000. 326 pages pp.  [abs]
  9.  Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized: Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World. Edited by B.W. Jentleson, editor and contributor. Rowman and Littlefield and Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1999.
  10.  Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, four volumes. Edited by Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Paterson. Oxford University Press and Council on Foreign Relations, 1997.
  11. B.W. Jentleson. With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush and Saddam, 1982-1990. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1994.
  12. B.W. Jentleson. Foreign Military Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict. Edited by editor and contributor with Ariel Levite and Larry Berman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. (paperback edition, 1994.)
  13. B.W. Jentleson. Pipeline Politics: The Complex Political Economy of East-West Energy Trade. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Journal Articles

  1. Tama, J; Barma, NH; Durbin, B; Goldgeier, J; Jentleson, BW. "Bridging the Gap in a Changing World: New Opportunities and Challenges for Engaging Practitioners and the Public." International Studies Perspectives 24.3 (August, 2023): 285-307. [doi]  [abs]
  2. Jentleson, BW. "Beyond the Rhetoric: A Globally Credible US Role for a “Rules-Based Order”." Washington Quarterly 46.3 (January, 2023): 83-102. [doi]
  3. Jentleson, BW. "Global Governance, the United Nations, and the challenge of trumping Trump." Global Governance 23.2 (January, 2021): 143-149. [doi]
  4. Jentleson, BW. "Refocusing US Grand Strategy on Pandemic and Environmental Mass Destruction." Washington Quarterly 43.3 (July, 2020): 7-29. [doi]
  5. Jentleson, B. "Right-Sizing Foreign Policy." Democracy 54 (2019).
  6. Jentleson, BW. "Strategic Recalibration: A Palmerstonian Middle East Strategy." Order from Ashes: New Foundations for Security in the Middle East (2018).
  7. Jentleson, BW. "'The Liberal Order Isn't Coming Back' What Next?." Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (2018).
  8. Jentleson, BW. "Public Opinion and Donald Trump's Foreign Policy: Initial Assessment." H-Diplo/International Securities Study Forum Policy Roundtable.Public Opinion and the Trump administrat (September, 2017).
  9. Jentleson, BW. "The United States and R2P: Challenges of Policy Prioritization, Bureaucratic Institutionalization, Strategy, and International Collaboration." The Oxford Handbook on the Responsibility to Protect (2016).
  10. Jentleson, BW. "The Bridging the Gap Initiative and Programs." PS - Political Science and Politics 48.S1 (August, 2015): 108-114. [doi]
  11. Jentleson, BW. "Strategic Recalibration: Framework for a 21st-Century National Security Strategy." Washington Quarterly 37.1 (January, 2014): 115-136. [doi]
  12. Jentleson, BW. "Accepting Limits: How to Adapt to a Copernican World." Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (Winter, 2012).
  13. Jentleson, BW. "Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul R. Pillar." Political Science Quarterly 127.3 (September, 2012): 477-478. [doi]
  14. Jentleson, BW. "No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn." FOREIGN AFFAIRS 91.3 (May, 2012): 173-173.
  15. Jentleson, BW. "Global Governance in a Copernican World." Global Governance 17 (March, 2012).
  16. Jentleson, BW. "Theories of International Politics and Zombies. By Daniel W. Drezner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. 136p. $14.95.." Perspectives on Politics 10.1 (March, 2012): 212-213. [doi]
  17. Jentleson, BW. "The John Holmes memorial lecture: Global governance in a Copernican world." Global Governance 18.2 (January, 2012): 133-148. [doi]
  18. Jentleson, BW. "The Obama Administration and R2P: Progress, Problems and Prospects." Global Responsibility to Protect Winter 2012-13 (2012).
  19. Jentleson, BW. "Beware the Duck Test." Washington Quarterly 34.3 (Summer, 2011): 137-149. [doi]
  20. Jentleson, BW. "The Remaking of the Middle East." Duke Magazine (Summer, 2011).
  21. Jentleson, BW. "Metternich of Arabia." National Interest Online (June, 2011). [metternich-arabia-5543]
  22. Jentleson, BW; Ratner, E. "Bridging the Beltway-Ivory Tower Gap." International Studies Review 13.1 (March, 2011): 6-11. [doi]  [abs]
  23. B.W. Jentleson. "Normative Future: A U.S. Perspective." Transatlantic 2020: A Tale of Four Futures (2011).
  24. Jentleson, BW. "Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon M. Goldstein." Political Science Quarterly 124.3 (September, 2009): 540-541. [doi]
  25. Jentleson, BW. "The Atlantic Alliance in a Post-America World." Journal of Trans-Atlantic Studies (March, 2009).
  26. Lorber, E; Jentleson, BW. "Military Power and the Capabilities-Utility Gap: Lessons of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War." (2009).  [abs]
  27. Jentleson, BW; Weber, S. "America's Hard Sell." Foreign Policy 169.169 (2008): 43-49. (cover story)  [abs]
  28. Jentleson, BW. "Military force against terrorism: Questions of legitimacy, dilemmas of efficacy." (December, 2007): 40-58.  [abs]
  29. Jentleson, BW. "America's Global Role After Bush." Survival 49.3 (Fall, 2007): 179-200. [doi]
  30. Jentleson, BW. ""A Responsibility to Protect: The Defining Challenge for Global Community"." Harvard International Review Winter 2007.4 (2006): 18-23.
  31. Jentleson, BW. "Who 'Won' Libya? The Force-Diplomacy Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Policy." International Security 30.3 (Winter, 2005): 47-86. (with Christopher A. Whytock) [doi]
  32. Jentleson, BW. "Tough Love Multilateralism." The Washington Quarterly 27.1 (Winter, 2003): 5-24. [doi]
  33. Jentleson, BW. "The need for praxis: Bringing policy relevance back in." International Security 26.4 (Spring, 2002): 169-183. [doi]
  34. Jentleson, BW. "Strategic Coercion: Concepts and Cases. Edited by Lawrence Freedman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 400p. $92.00.." American Political Science Review 93.4 (December, 1999): 1012-1013. [doi]
  35. Jentleson, BW; Britton, RL. "Still pretty prudent: Post-cold war American public opinion on the use of military force." Journal of Conflict Resolution 42.4 (January, 1998): 395-417. [doi]  [abs]
  36. Stein, JG; Barnett, M; Frankel, B; Gause, G; Gerner, DJ; Herrmann, R; Jentleson, BW; Kaye, DD; Lebow, RN; Lynch, M; Solingen, E; Spiro, DE; Sylvan, DA; Weber, S. "Five scenarios of the Israel-Palestinian relationship in 2002: Works in progress." Security Studies 7.4 (January, 1998): 195-208. [doi]
  37. Jentleson, BW; Kaye, DD. "Security status: Explaining regional security cooperation and its limits in the Middle East." Security Studies 8.1 (January, 1998): 204-238. [doi]
  38. JENTLESON, BW. "EAST-WEST-TRADE AND THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE - BALDWIN,DA, MILNER,HV." POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 106.4 (December, 1992): 733-735.
  39. Jentleson, BW. "The Pretty Prudent Public: Post Post-Vietnam American Opinion on the Use of Military Force." International Studies Quarterly 36.1 (March, 1992): 49-49. [doi]
  40. Jentleson, BW. "The Philippines: U.S. policy during the Marcos years, 1956–1986." Government Publications Review 19.1 (January, 1992): 85-86. [doi]
  41. Sorenson, DS. "Arms Control during the Pre-Nuclear Era: The United States and Naval Limitations between the Two World Wars. By Robert Gordon Kaufman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. 289p. $40.00.." American Political Science Review 85.1 (March, 1991): 338-339. [doi]
  42. Jentleson, BW. "The Reagan Administration and Coercive Diplomacy: Restraining More Than Remaking Governments." Political Science Quarterly 106.1 (Spring, 1991): 57-82. [doi]
  43. Jentleson, BW. "Conflicts Unending: The United States and Regional Disputes. By Richard N. Haass. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. 184p. $22.50.." American Political Science Review 85.01 (March, 1991): 337-338.
  44. Jentleson, BW. "Discrepant Responses to Falling Dictators: Presidential Belief Systems and the Mediating Effects of the Senior Advisory Process." Political Psychology 11.2 (June, 1990): 353-353. [doi]
  45. Jentleson, BW. "Reflections on Praxis and Nexus." PS: Political Science & Politics 23.3 (January, 1990): 434-436. [doi]
  46. Jentleson, BW. "Deadly Paradigms: The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy. By D. Michael Shafer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. 331p. $34.50.." American Political Science Review 83.2 (June, 1989): 705-706. [doi]
  47. Jentleson, BW. "American commitments in the Third World: theory vs. practice." International Organization 41.04 (September, 1987): 667-704.  [abs]
  48. Jentleson, BW. "American commitments in the Third World: Theory vs. practice." International organization 41.4 (January, 1987): 667-704. [doi]
  49. JENTLESON, BW. "THE POLITICAL BASIS FOR TRADE IN UNITED-STATES-SOVIET RELATIONS." MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 15.1 (Spring, 1986): 27-47. (reprinted in The Cold War Debated, eds. David Carlton and Herbert M. Levine (New York: McGraw Hill, 1988) [doi]
  50. Jentleson, BW. "Strategic Choices and Dangerous Traps." PS 19.1 (Winter, 1986): 69-70. [doi]
  51. Jentleson, BW. "The Making of America's Soviet Policy. Edited by Joseph S. NyeJr. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. x + 369. $27.50.)." American Political Science Review 79.1 (March, 1985): 271-272. [doi]
  52. Jentleson, BW. "From consensus to conflict: the domestic political economy of East-West energy trade policy." International Organization 38.04 (September, 1984): 625-660.  [abs]
  53. Jentleson, BW. "Economic Coercion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Implications of Case Studies from the Johnson Administration. Edited by Weintraub Sidney. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1982. Pp. xvii + 234. $23.00.)." American Political Science Review 78.02 (June, 1984): 576-577. [doi]
  54. Jentleson, BW. "From Consensus to Conflict: The Domestic Political Economy of East-West Energy Trade Policy." International organization 38.4 (January, 1984): 625-660. [doi]

Chapters in Books

  1. Jentleson, B. "Weaponized Interdependence, The Dynamics of 21st Century Power, and U.S. Grand Strategy." The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence. Ed. Drezner, D; Farrell, H; Newman, A Brookings Institution Press, 2020
  2. Jentleson, B; Levite, A; Berman, L. "Protracted foreign military intervention: A structured, focused comparative analysis." Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George. January, 2019: 229-254. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Frankel, B; Levite, A; Hamza, K; Jentleson, B. "Middle east arms control and regional security dilemmas." Repairing the Regime: Preventing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction. April, 2014: 195-204.
  4. Jentleson, BW; Pauly, LW. "Political Authority, Policy Capacity, and Twenty-First-Century Governance." Power in a Complex Global System. January, 2014: 3-16.
  5. B.W. Jentleson. "Effective Multilateralism: US Perspectives." Effective Multilateralism: Through the Looking Glass of East Asia. Ed. Jochen Prantl, Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming
  6. B.W. Jentleson. "Coercive Diplomacy: Scope and Limits, Theory and Policy." The Routledge Companion to Security Studies. Ed. Victor Mauer and Myriam Dunn Cavelty 2009
  7. B.W. Jentleson. "Policy Planning: An Integrative Executive Branch Strategy." Avoiding Trivia: The Role of Strategic Planning in American Foreign Policy. Ed. Daniel W. Drezner Brookings Institution Press, 2009
  8. B.W. Jentleson. "“Force and Legitimacy: Terrorism Scenarios”." Force and Legitimacy in the Evolving International System. Ed. Ivo H. Daalder Brookings Institution Press, 2007
  9. B.W. Jentleson. "Yet Again: Humanitarian Intervention and the Challenges of 'Never Again'." Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World. Ed. Chester Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela Aall U. S. Institute of Peace Press, 2006

Book Reviews

  1. Jentleson, B. Roundtable 11-8 on The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal.  Review by Bruce W. Jentleson, Duke University (December, 2019).
  2. B.W. Jentleson. Theories of International Relations and Zombies, Daniel Drezner.  Perspectives on Politics March 2012 (2012).
  3. B.W. Jentleson. How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires and the American Way of War, Dominic Tierney.  H-DIPLO/ISSF, Vol. III, No. 9 (March 2012) (2012).

Op-eds

  1. Jentleson, B; Goldgeier, J. A Democracy Summit Is Not What the Doctor Ordered.  Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) (December, 2021).
  2. Jentleson, B; Goldgeier, J. The United States Needs a Democracy Summit at Home.  Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) (January, 2021).
  3. Jentleson, B. American Foreign Policy and the 2020 Presidential Election.  Strategic and Defense Studies Center (October, 2020).
  4. Jentleson, B; Goldgeier, J. The United States Is Not Entitled to Lead the World.  Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) (September, 2020).
  5. Jentleson, B. Lincoln, FDR and Sizing Up Donald Trump.  April, 2020.
  6. Jentleson, B. Burying and Unburying History: American Strategy in a Faulknerian World.  January, 2020.
  7. Jentleson, B. That Post-Liberal Order International World: Some Core Characteristics.  September, 2018.
  8. Jentleson, B. Millennials are so over US domination of world affairs.  July, 2018.
  9. Pauly, LW; Jentleson, BW. Preface.  Power in a Complex Global System 1-2 (January, 2014): xiii-xiv. [doi]

Monographs

  1. B.W. Jentleson, A. Exum et al. Strategic Adaptation: Towards a New U.S. Strategy in the Middle East.June 2012 Center for a New American Security (CNAS), 2012.
  2. B.W. Jentleson. Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Secuirty Strategy. Phoenix Initiative, July, 2008. (principal co-author) [PhoenixInitiative]
  3. B.W. Jentleson. Coercive Diplomacy: Scope and Limits in the Contemporary World. Policy Analysis Briefs The Stanley Foundation, December, 2006.
  4. B.W. Jentleson. Sanctions Against Iran: Key Issues. Century Foundation Report. Century Foundation, forthcoming.

Other

  1. B.W. Jentleson. "The Bi-Sectoralists." (2011-). Monthly column in Huffington Post, co-authored with Jay Pelosky.

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