Edward Rhodes

Office of the Dean Faculty of Arts and Sciences
77 Hamilton Street
Rutgers University
New Brunswick , NJ 08901-1248

Tel: (732) 932-8435
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Email: erhodes@fas.rutgers.edu

CURRENT POSITION

EDUCATION

Professional Experience

2000 - 2001 FULBRIGHT FELLOW, University of Latvia and Latvian Institute for International Affairs, Riga , Latvia .

1997 - 2003 DIRECTOR, Center for Global Security and Democracy, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University .

1996 - 1997 NAVY FELLOW, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, The Pentagon.

1994 - 1995 VICE CHAIRMAN, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University .

1992 - present ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University .

1992 - 1994 DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE PLACEMENT, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University .

1989 - 1990 VISITING SCHOLAR, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University .

1989 VISITING SCHOLAR, Defense Intelligence College , Washington , DC.

1988 - 1989 ASSOCIATE, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University .

1986 - 1992 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University .

1985 - 1986 FELLOW, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University .

1984 -1985 FELLOW, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University .

1984 VISITING SCHOLAR, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University .

1982 -1984 ASSISTANT IN INSTRUCTION, Department of Politics, Princeton University .

1982 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University .

1981 SUMMER INTERN, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs), Policy Planning, The Pentagon.

1978 - 1980 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Kennedy School of Government , Harvard University .

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

1996 - 1997 International Affairs Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations, New York .

1995 "Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Faculty of Arts and Sciences," Rutgers College , Rutgers University .

1993 -1994 Faculty Fellowship, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University .

1991 - 1996 Term Membership, Council on Foreign Relations, New York .

1990 - 1991 Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, Harvard University .

1990 21st Century Trust Fellowship, 21st Century Trust, London , UK .

1989 - 1990 Charles Warren Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University .

1986 Membership, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London , UK .

1986 - 1988 Henry Rutgers Research Fellowship, Rutgers University .

1985 - 1986 Ford Program Fellowship in European Society and Western Security, Center for International Affairs and Center for European Studies, Harvard University .

1985 - 1986 Paul-Henri Spaak Fellowship in U.S.-European Relations, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University .

1984 - 1985 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Arms Control and Disarmament, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency , Washington , DC.

1984 - 1985 Arms Control Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University .

1984 Peace Studies Fellowship, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University .

1980 - 1984 University Fellowship, Princeton University .

1977 - 1980 Harvard College Honorary National Scholarship, Harvard University .

GRANTS

2002 - 2003 Principal Investigator, "Workshop-Conference on the Northern Europe Initiative," Copenhagen Peace Research Institute ($27,000).

1998 - 1999 Principal Investigator, "Utilizing Distributed Systems for Forward Presence," U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center , Carderock Division ($100,000).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Power and MADness: The Logic of Nuclear Coercion , Columbia University Press, 1989. (Paperback edition, 1991.)

Edited Books

(Peter Trubowitz, Emily O. Goldman, and Edward Rhodes) The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests, Columbia University Press, 1999.

Edited Textbooks

International Relations: Introductory Readings (Second Revised Edition), Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2003.

(Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes) Global Politics in a Changing World: A Reader(Second Edition), Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

(Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes) Global Politics in a Changing World: A Reader, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

International Relations: Introductory Readings (Revised Edition), Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1998.

International Relations: Introductory Readings , Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1992.

Articles

"American Grand Strategy: The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda," Policy [ Australia ], Summer 2003-04.

“Transforming the Alliance : The Bush Administration’s Vision of NATO,” Connections [ Germany ], November 2003.

"The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda," Survival, Spring 2003.

" America and the Construction of East Asian Security: Mental Architecture and Security Architecture," Taiwan Defense Affairs , Fall 2001.

"The American View of Baltic Security Architecture: Understanding the Northern Europe Initiative," Baltic Defense Review [ Estonia ], [December] 2000.

"Conventional Deterrence," Comparative Strategy, Fall 2000. (Edward Rhodes, Jonathan DiCicco, Sarah Milburn Moore, and Thomas Walker) "Forward Presence and Engagement: Historical Insights into the Problem of 'Shaping,'" Naval War College Review, Winter 2000.

(Richard Harknett, Steven Biddle, Jan Breemer, Daniel Deudney, Peter Feaver, Ben Frankel, Emily Goldman, Chaim Kaufmann, William Martel, and Edward Rhodes) "The Risks of a Networked Military," Orbis, Winter 2000.

"'...From the Sea' and Back Again: Naval Power in the Second American Century," Naval War College Review , Spring 1999.

"Sea Change: Interest-Based and Cultural-Cognitive Accounts of Strategic Adjustment in the 1890s," Security Studies, Summer 1996.

"Constructing Peace and War: An Analysis of the Power of Ideas to Shape American Military Power," Millennium Journal of International Studies, Spring 1995.

"Do Bureaucratic Politics Matter? Some Disconfirming Findings from the Case of the U.S. Navy," World Politics, October 1994.

"New Money and Old Ships: Budget Reductions and the 'Hollowing Out' of the U.S. Fleet through Age," Defense Analysis, April 1994.

" Wilson , Roosevelt , and Defense Policy in the 1990s," Defense Analysis, November 1992.

"Amerikansk Forsvarspolitik och den Nya Varldsordningen" [U.S. Defense Policy and the New World Order"], Internationella Studier [ Sweden ], Fall 1992.

"Deep Cuts at Sea: Superpower Naval Reductions in the Post-Cold War Period," Arms Control, September 1990.

"Naval Arms Control for the Bush Era," SAIS Review , Summer/Fall 1990.

"Hawks, Doves, Owls, and Loons: Extended Deterrence Without Flexible Response," Millennium Journal of International Studies, Spring 1990.

"Subversive Submarines," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1990.

"Nuclear Weapons and Credibility: Deterrence Theory Beyond Rationality," Review of International Studies, January 1988.

 "The Second Wave Revisited: Ahistorical Approaches to Theory," International Studies Notes, Winter 1987.

BOOK CHAPTERS

"Onward, Liberal Soldiers? The Crusading Logic of Bush's Grand Strategy," in Lloyd Gardner and Marilyn Young, eds., The New Empire: A Handbook for the 21st Century, New Press, forthcoming.

“Good, Evil, God, and NATO: The Bush Administration’s Vision of the New Atlantic Partnership,” in Andres Kasekamp, ed., Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook 2004, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute [ Estonia ], 2004.

"A World Not in the Balance," in T.V. Paul, James J. Wirtz, and Michel Fortmann, eds., Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century, Stanford University Press, 2004.

"Rethinking the Nature of Security: America 's Northern Europe Initiative," in Irina Busygina, ed.., New Frontiers of Europe: Opportunities and Challenges, MGIMO University [ Moscow , Russia ], 2003.

"America, the Baltic States, and Russia: The U.S. Northern Europe Initiative and Hanseatic Models of Security," in Konstantin Khudoley and Stanislav Tkachenko, eds., Challenges to International Relations in Post-Cold War Europe, St. Petersburg State University [Russia], 2002.

"Charles Evans Hughes Reconsidered, Or: The Case for Liberal Isolationism," in Anthony Lake and David Ochmanek, eds., The Real and the Ideal: The Ideas of Richard Ullman in a Changing International Order, Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

"The Northern European Initiative and U.S. Visions of Baltic Security," in Andres Kasekamp, ed., Organizing Europe 's Place in World Affairs: The European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy, Tartu University Press [ Estonia ], 2001.

"Constructing Power: Cultural Transformation and Strategic Adjustment in the 1890s," in Peter Trubowitz, Emily O. Goldman, and Edward Rhodes, The Politics of Strategic Adjustment, Columbia University Press, 1999.

(Peter Trubowitz and Edward Rhodes) "Explaining American Strategic Adjustment," in Peter Trubowitz, Emily O. Goldman, and Edward Rhodes, The Politics of Strategic Adjustment, Columbia University Press, 1999.

"'... From the Sea' and Back Again: Naval Power in National Strategy in the Second American Century," in Pelham G. Boyer and Robert S. Wood, eds., Strategic Transformation and Naval Power in the 21st Century, Naval War College Press, 1998.

OCCASIONAL PAPERS

"The United States and the Northern Dimension: America's Northern Europe Initiative," in Gunnar Lassinantti and Lars Truedson, eds., International Perspectives on the Future of the Barents Euro-Arctic Region and the Northern Dimension (Part 1), The Swedish Initiative of the Barents Euro-Arctic Co-operation and the Northern Dimension, Report 4, Lulea, Sweden, January 2002.

(Edward Rhodes, Jonathan DiCicco, Sarah Milburn Moore, and Tom Walker) "Forward Presence and the Problem of Shaping," in Sam J. Tangredi and Antonios Clapsis, eds., Globalization and Naval Forward Presence: Issues and Insights, Institute for National Strategic Studies (Global Forum occasional paper series), National Defense University, Washington, DC, April 2001.

"Isolationism and Nationalism in American Foreign Policy: Lessons from the 1920s," in Chieko Otsuru and Edward Rhodes, eds, Citizenship and Nationalism II, Japan Center for Area Studies Occasional Paper (JCAS/Rutgers Sub-series, number 2), National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, 2000.

WEB PUBLICATIONS

"Onward, Liberal Soldiers? The Crusading Logic of Bush's Grand Strategy and What Is Wrong with It," Special Section, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia University Press, 2002.

"Can the United States Deter Iraqi Aggression? The Problems of Conventional Deterrence," Special Section, Further Readings , Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia University Press, 2002.

"The United States and the Northern Dimension: America 's Northern Europe Initiative," The Swedish Initiative on the Barents Euro-Artic Cooperation and the Northern Dimension (Lansstyrelsen i Norbottens Lan), 2001. [Later republished as an occasional paper -- see above].

(Edward Rhodes, Jonathan DiCicco, Sarah Milburn, and Tom Walker), "Forward Presence and Peacetime 'Shaping': Comparative Analysis of Great Power Experiences," Center for Global Security and Democracy Working Paper, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia University Press, 2001.

"Review of Empirical Studies of Conventional Deterrence," Center for Global Security and Democracy Working Paper, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia University Press, 1999.

SELECTED PAPERS AND BRIEFS

 “The Imperial Logic of Bush’s Liberal Agenda,” Program on International Security Policy, The University of Chicago, January 2004.

"Constructing European Security after Prague : The United States Searches for Useful Pasts and Attractive Futures," Central and Eastern European International Studies Association and International Studies Association International Conference, Budapest , Hungary , June 2003.

"Crusades and Grand Strategies: A Close Look at the 'National Security Strategy' and the Problem of Balancing Security with Liberty," Assembly on "America's Challenges in an Unstable World," United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, February 2003.

"The Nuclear Balance and Other Oxymorons: Thinking about National Security in a Non-Trinitarian Environment," Conference on Balance of Power Revisited: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century, the University of Montreal-McGill Research Group in International Security (REGIS) and the Naval Postgraduate School, Montreal, May 2002.

 "Rethinking the Nature of Security: The U.S. Northern Europe Initiative," International Studies Association,

New Orleans , March 2002; also presented at the combined conference of Central European International Studies Association, Nordic International Studies Association, and Russian International Studies Association, Moscow , June 2002.

"The United States and the Northern Dimension: America's Northern Europe Initiative," Think-Tank Seminar on the Northern Dimension and the Future of Barents Euro-Arctic Cooperation, the Governor of Norrbotten County and the Government of Sweden, Bjorkliden, Sweden, June 2001.

"The Effects of an N-Person/N-Contingency World," Conference on the Changing Dynamics of Deterrence, Strategic Assessments Group, Arlington , VA , June 2001.

"Political Effects of Naval Presence in a Globalized World: Does Naval Presence Shape Events?" Symposium on Globalization and Naval Forward Presence, Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy and the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, DC, April 2001.

"Constructing U.S. Foreign Policy: Identity and International Relations," University of Tartu , Tartu , Estonia , December 2000.

"Forward into the Past: What the (Bush? Gore?) Victory Means for American Foreign Policy," Baltic Defense College , Tartu , Estonia , December 2000.

"America and World Order: Internationalism, Isolationism, and Lessons from the 1920s Re-examined," University of Latvia , Riga , Latvia , October 2000.

"American Perspectives," Conference on the Security Architecture of Northern Europe, Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Latvian Ministry of Defense, NATO, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Riga, Latvia, September 2000.

"Reflections on Alternative Global Futures, 2000-2015: The Twenty-First Century Crisis of Governance and Its Implications for National Security Policy," Alternative Futures Conference, Naval War College , Newport , RI , November-December 1999.

"U.S. Naval Policy after the Cold War," Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo , Japan , November 1999.

"Isolationism and Nationalism in American Foreign Policy: Lessons from the 1920s," Japan Center for Area Studies, Tokyo , Japan , November 1999.

"'Shaping,' 'Responding,' and Forward Presence," Chief of Naval Operations' Strategic Studies Group, Naval War College, Newport, RI, October 1999.

(Edward Rhodes, Jonathan DiCicco, Sarah Milburn Moore, and Thomas Walker) "Forward Presence Issues," Distributed Battlespace Force Architecture Workshop-99, National Defense University , Washington , DC, June 1999.

"Naval Power in National Strategy in the New Century," Council on Foreign Relations, New York , October 1997.

"'... From the Sea' and Back Again: Naval Power in National Strategy in the Second American Century," Strategic Concepts Workshop, Newport , RI , September 1997.

"Conventional Deterrence," Future Navy RMA Roundtable, Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, Alexandria, VA, June 1997; and Navy Strategic Concepts Wargame VIII, Naval War College, Newport, RI, October 1997.

"U.S. Strategic Adjustment in the 1890s," Joint Center for International Security Studies, Monterey, CA, February 1995; International Studies Association, Washington, DC, March 1994; and Social Science Research Council Workshop, Austin, TX, April 1994.

"Learning from Peacetime Naval Planning Disasters: 1922, 1949, and the Clash of Visions in 1994," Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington , DC , August 1994.

"After the Mahanian Century: Command of the Mind and Command of the Sea," Conference on Conventional Deterrence in the Post-Cold War World, Naval Postgraduate School and Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Monterey , CA , August 1992.

"Crisis Control, Escalation Control, and World Order -- Or, Does Soviet Strategic Doctrine Matter?" IISS/ACA "New Faces" Conference on Strategic Doctrine and World Order, Castelgandolfo , Italy , July 1986.

"National Security and Nuclear Strategy: A Framework for Considering the Military Uses of Space," Fourth Biennial Student Pugwash International Conference on Science, Technology, and Individual Responsibility," Princeton , NJ , June 1985.

SELECTED LIST OF OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Fellow, Conference on “Globalization: Rhetoric, Reality, and International Politics,” Twenty-First Century Trust, Washington , DC , October 2003.

Fellow, Conference on " Russia and the West," Twenty-First Century Trust, Klingenthal , France , June 2003.

Senior Participant, United States Air Force Academy Assembly, Colorado Springs, CO, February 2003.

Fellow, Conference on " Europe and the War on Terror," Twenty-First Century Trust, Brussels , February 2003.

Conference Convenor, Workshop-Conference on "The United States Northern Europe Initiative (NEI): Background and Future," Center for Global Security and Democracy and Danish Institute for International Affairs, New Brunswick, NJ, January 2003.

Fellow, Conference on "NATO, the EU, and the Middle East : Security Scenarios," Twenty-First Century Trust, Ankara , Turkey , October 2002.

Co-Chair, Sixth International Symposium of the JCAS Joint Research Project on State, Nation, and Ethnic Relations ("'We the People' in the Global Age: A Re-examination of Citizenship and Nationalism"), Japan Center for Area Studies in cooperation with the Rutgers University Center for Global Security and Democracy, Osaka, Japan, November 2001.

Member, John J. McCloy Roundtable on Setting the New National Security Agenda, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1997-98.

Member, Pieter A. Fisher European Studies Series, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1997-98.

Member, Core Study Group on Information Warfare (CSGIW), U.S. Navy and Joint Center for International Security Studies, Cincinnati , May 1997, July 1997.

Member, Delegation to NATO, Council on Foreign Relations, Brussels , Stuttgart , Budapest , April 1997.

Chair, "RMA in Longer Perspective," Joint Center for International Security Studies/Security Studies Conference on Revolution in Military Affairs, Monterey , CA , August 1996.

Participant, Secretary of the Air Force's National Security Forum, Air War College , Maxwell AFB, AL , June 1996.

Member, W. Averill Harriman Study Group on Transatlantic
Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, New York , April-September 1996.

Member, Term Member Roundtable, Council on Foreign Relations, New York and Washington , 1994-98.

Fellow, "After the Cold War: What Kind of Europe ?" 21st Century Trust Conference, Wadham College , Oxford University , July 1990.

Fellow, Faculty Workshop on Case-Method Instruction in International Affairs, Pew Charitable Trusts, Harvard University , June 1990.

Participant, Workshop on American Politics and the Making of Foreign Policy, Committee on Foreign Policy Studies, Social Science Research Council, Stanford, CA, April 1990, June 1989.

CONSULTING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor, Security Studies (2003 - present).

Member, Fulbright Senior Scholars Program Advisory Board, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (2002 - 2004).

Editorial Board Member, International Studies Quarterly (1999 - present).

Editorial Advisory Board Member, Defense Analysis (2000 - present).

Co-Editor, JCAS/Rutgers Sub-series, Japan Center for Area Studies Occasional Papers, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan (1999 - 2002).

Manuscript Reviewer: Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, Foreign Policy Association, Grolier, Harper Collins, University of Michigan Press, Penn State University Press, Pew Case Study Program, Princeton University Press, Stanford University Press, SUNY Press, Texas A&M University Press, Westview Press, American Political Science Review, Conflict Management and Peace Science, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Millennium Journal of International Studies, Political Psychology, Politics and the Life Sciences, Review of International Studies, Security Studies, World Politics.

Consultant, Educational Testing Service: Foreign Service Examination (1987, 1988); "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age" Exam (1989).

Grant Reviewer, National Security Education Program , U.S. Department of Defense (1994, 1995, 1996, 2002).

Fellowship Reviewer, Fulbright and Humphrey Fellowship Programs, U.S. Embassy, Riga , Latvia (2000).