Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
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Books
- Jentleson, B. Economic Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Jentleson, BW. The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship. W. W. Norton & Company, April, 2018. 416 pages pp. [abs]
- Pauly, LW; Jentleson, BW. Power in a complex global system. January, 2014. 1-260 pp. [abs]
- Jentleson, BW. American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century (Fifth Edition). W. W. Norton, July, 2013. 768 pages pp. [abs]
- 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.
- B.W. Jentleson and Steven Weber. The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas. Harvard University Press, 2010.
- B.W. Jentleson. American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century.4th edition W.W. Norton, 2010.
- Jentleson, BW. Perspectives on American Foreign Policy Readings and Cases. W. W. Norton, 2000. 326 pages pp. [abs]
- 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.
- 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.
- B.W. Jentleson. With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush and Saddam, 1982-1990. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1994.
- 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.)
- B.W. Jentleson. Pipeline Politics: The Complex Political Economy of East-West Energy Trade. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Journal Articles
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "Beyond the Rhetoric: A Globally Credible US Role for a “Rules-Based Order”." Washington Quarterly 46.3 (January, 2023): 83-102. [doi]
- Jentleson, BW. "Global Governance, the United Nations, and the challenge of trumping Trump." Global Governance 23.2 (January, 2021): 143-149. [doi]
- Jentleson, BW. "Refocusing US Grand Strategy on Pandemic and Environmental Mass Destruction." Washington Quarterly 43.3 (July, 2020): 7-29. [doi]
- Jentleson, B. "Right-Sizing Foreign Policy." Democracy 54 (2019).
- Jentleson, BW. "Strategic Recalibration: A Palmerstonian Middle East Strategy." Order from Ashes: New Foundations for Security in the Middle East (2018).
- Jentleson, BW. "'The Liberal Order Isn't Coming Back' What Next?." Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (2018).
- 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).
- 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).
- Jentleson, BW. "The Bridging the Gap Initiative and Programs." PS - Political Science and Politics 48.S1 (August, 2015): 108-114. [doi]
- Jentleson, BW. "Strategic Recalibration: Framework for a 21st-Century National Security Strategy." Washington Quarterly 37.1 (January, 2014): 115-136. [doi]
- Jentleson, BW. "Accepting Limits: How to Adapt to a Copernican World." Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (Winter, 2012).
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn." FOREIGN AFFAIRS 91.3 (May, 2012): 173-173.
- Jentleson, BW. "Global Governance in a Copernican World." Global Governance 17 (March, 2012).
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "The John Holmes memorial lecture: Global governance in a Copernican world." Global Governance 18.2 (January, 2012): 133-148. [doi]
- Jentleson, BW. "The Obama Administration and R2P: Progress, Problems and Prospects." Global Responsibility to Protect Winter 2012-13 (2012).
- Jentleson, BW. "Beware the Duck Test." Washington Quarterly 34.3 (Summer, 2011): 137-149. [doi]
- Jentleson, BW. "The Remaking of the Middle East." Duke Magazine (Summer, 2011).
- Jentleson, BW. "Metternich of Arabia." National Interest Online (June, 2011). [metternich-arabia-5543]
- Jentleson, BW; Ratner, E. "Bridging the Beltway-Ivory Tower Gap." International Studies Review 13.1 (March, 2011): 6-11. [doi] [abs]
- B.W. Jentleson. "Normative Future: A U.S. Perspective." Transatlantic 2020: A Tale of Four Futures (2011).
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "The Atlantic Alliance in a Post-America World." Journal of Trans-Atlantic Studies (March, 2009).
- Lorber, E; Jentleson, BW. "Military Power and the Capabilities-Utility Gap: Lessons of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War." (2009). [abs]
- Jentleson, BW; Weber, S. "America's Hard Sell." Foreign Policy 169.169 (2008): 43-49. (cover story) [abs]
- Jentleson, BW. "Military force against terrorism: Questions of legitimacy, dilemmas of efficacy." (December, 2007): 40-58. [abs]
- Jentleson, BW. "America's Global Role After Bush." Survival 49.3 (Fall, 2007): 179-200. [doi]
- Jentleson, BW. ""A Responsibility to Protect: The Defining Challenge for Global Community"." Harvard International Review Winter 2007.4 (2006): 18-23.
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "Tough Love Multilateralism." The Washington Quarterly 27.1 (Winter, 2003): 5-24. [doi]
- Jentleson, BW. "The need for praxis: Bringing policy relevance back in." International Security 26.4 (Spring, 2002): 169-183. [doi]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- JENTLESON, BW. "EAST-WEST-TRADE AND THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE - BALDWIN,DA, MILNER,HV." POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 106.4 (December, 1992): 733-735.
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "The Philippines: U.S. policy during the Marcos years, 1956–1986." Government Publications Review 19.1 (January, 1992): 85-86. [doi]
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "The Reagan Administration and Coercive Diplomacy: Restraining More Than Remaking Governments." Political Science Quarterly 106.1 (Spring, 1991): 57-82. [doi]
- 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.
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "Reflections on Praxis and Nexus." PS: Political Science & Politics 23.3 (January, 1990): 434-436. [doi]
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "American commitments in the Third World: theory vs. practice." International Organization 41.04 (September, 1987): 667-704. [abs]
- Jentleson, BW. "American commitments in the Third World: Theory vs. practice." International organization 41.4 (January, 1987): 667-704. [doi]
- 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]
- Jentleson, BW. "Strategic Choices and Dangerous Traps." PS 19.1 (Winter, 1986): 69-70. [doi]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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
- 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
- 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]
- 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.
- Jentleson, BW; Pauly, LW. "Political Authority, Policy Capacity, and Twenty-First-Century Governance." Power in a Complex Global System. January, 2014: 3-16.
- B.W. Jentleson. "Effective Multilateralism: US Perspectives." Effective Multilateralism: Through the Looking Glass of East Asia.
Ed. Jochen Prantl, Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming
- 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
- 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
- B.W. Jentleson. "“Force and Legitimacy: Terrorism Scenarios”." Force and Legitimacy in the Evolving International System.
Ed. Ivo H. Daalder Brookings Institution Press, 2007
- 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
- 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).
- B.W. Jentleson. Theories of International Relations and Zombies, Daniel Drezner. Perspectives on Politics March 2012
(2012).
- 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
- Jentleson, B; Goldgeier, J. A Democracy Summit Is Not What the Doctor Ordered. Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations)
(December, 2021).
- Jentleson, B; Goldgeier, J. The United States Needs a Democracy Summit at Home. Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations)
(January, 2021).
- Jentleson, B. American Foreign Policy and the 2020 Presidential Election. Strategic and Defense Studies Center
(October, 2020).
- Jentleson, B; Goldgeier, J. The United States Is Not Entitled to Lead the World. Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations)
(September, 2020).
- Jentleson, B. Lincoln, FDR and Sizing Up Donald Trump. April, 2020.
- Jentleson, B. Burying and Unburying History: American Strategy in a Faulknerian World. January, 2020.
- Jentleson, B. That Post-Liberal Order International World: Some Core Characteristics. September, 2018.
- Jentleson, B. Millennials are so over US domination of world affairs. July, 2018.
- Pauly, LW; Jentleson, BW. Preface. Power in a Complex Global System 1-2
(January, 2014): xiii-xiv. [doi]
Monographs
- 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.
- B.W. Jentleson. Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Secuirty Strategy. Phoenix Initiative, July, 2008. (principal co-author) [PhoenixInitiative]
- B.W. Jentleson. Coercive Diplomacy: Scope and Limits in the Contemporary World. Policy Analysis Briefs The Stanley Foundation, December, 2006.
- B.W. Jentleson. Sanctions Against Iran: Key Issues. Century Foundation Report. Century Foundation, forthcoming.
Other
- B.W. Jentleson. "The Bi-Sectoralists." (2011-). Monthly column in Huffington Post, co-authored with Jay Pelosky.
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