Bruce W. Jentleson
Bruce Jentleson is professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, where he served from 2000 to 2005 as director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He is a leading expert on a wide range of issues of American foreign policy, with a distinguished professional record and extensive policy experience.
In 1999-2000 Jentleson served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore and the Gore-Lieberman 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 as a member of the US delegation to the Middle East Multilateral Arms Control and Region Security Talks (ACRS). In 1987-88, while a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow, he served as a foreign policy to then-Senator Gore.
His publications include numerous articles as well as seven books including American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, a leading university text on American foreign policy (W. W. Norton, 2000, 2004, third edition, 2007); 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, 1999); the four-volume Encyclopedia of US Foreign Relations (co-senior editor, Council on Foreign Relations and Oxford University Press, 1997); and With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush and Saddam, 1982-90 (W. W. Norton, 1994). His most recent articles include "Who 'Won' Libya: The Force-Diplomacy Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Policy" (with Christopher A. Whytock), International Security, Winter 2005-06, and "Tough Love Multilateralism," The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2003-04. His next book, Competing in a Global Era: An American Strategy, is in the works.
Prior to coming to Duke, Jentleson was professor of political science at the University of California-Davis, director of the UC Davis Washington Center, and Washington research director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). He also has been a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, and the recipient of numerous other awards and fellowships, including from the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council. He has served as a consultant to the Carnegie Commission for Preventing Deadly Conflict, the National Academy of Science/National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Science, the American Assembly, the Atlantic Council and the Washington Institute of Near East Policy. He has lectured internationally, including in Canada, China, England, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, 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 CNN Crossfire. He also is a regular contributor to America Abroad, a prominent foreign affairs blog, at http://americaabroad.tpmcafe.com.
Jentleson 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.