CURRICULUM VITAE
Henry Richard Nau
7409 River Falls DriveProfessor of Political Science
Potomac, Maryland 20854and International Affairs
(301) 299-7645Elliott School of International
Affairs
Suite 501F
The George Washington University
Born: December 10, 19411957 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Tel: (202) 994-3167
Married: Marion M. NauFax: (202) 994-5477
E-Mail:
One Daughter: Kimberly (39 years old)Department of Political Science
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C. 20052
EDUCATION:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
B.S. in Economics, Politics, and Science, 1963
Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies,
M.A. in International Relations, 1967
Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies,
Ph.D. in International Relations, 1973
TEACHING, RESEARCH AND OTHER EXPERIENCES:
Present-Professor of Political Science and International Affairs,
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington
University (Assistant Professor, January 1973 - September 1976;
Associate Professor, September 1976 - January 1984)
Courses:Introduction to International Affairs
U.S. Foreign Policy
Presidents at War
U.S. Foreign Economic Policy
International Political Economy
Theories of International Politics
International Organizations
Science, Technology, and World Order
Sept. 1989- Director, 1989-2013 and Co-Director 2014, U.S.-Japan-South Korea Legislative Exchange Program, bilateral exchange Present with Japan since 1989 and trilateral exchange adding South Korea since 2003, public policy program of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Sept. 2011-On sabbatical as W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow
June 2012and Susan Louise Dyer Peace National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Sept.1992-On leave to write a book on American foreign policy
Sept.1994entitled At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy.
Supported by the The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and The Century Foundation (formerly The Twentieth Century Fund)
Jan.1988-Associate Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington
Sept.1992University
Sept.1987-Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University, School of
Dec.1987Advanced International Studies (on leave from George Washington University)
Jan.1987-Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
Sept. 1987Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (on leave from George Washington
University)
June1985-Visiting Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins School of
July1985Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C.
and
June1984-Course: North-South Relations
July1984
Jan.1981-Senior Staff Member of the National Security Council and Director of the
July1983Division for International Economic Affairs (including East-West trade);
White House sherpa for Ottawa (1981), Cancun (1981),
Versailles (1982), and Williamsburg (1983) Summits (on leave from George Washington University)
Jan. 1980-Visiting Scholar at Law and Economics Center, University of Miami Law
Apr.1980School (on sabbatical from George Washington University)
Sept.1979-Research Associate at the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research,
Jan.1980Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (on sabbatical from
George Washington University)
Sept.1977-Part-time Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia
June1978University, New York, New York
Course: International Organizations
Feb.1977-Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University,
July1977Palo Alto, California (on leave from George Washington University)
Courses: International Political Economy
Foreign Economic Policymaking
Sept.1975-International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and Special
Jan.1977Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Department of State
(on leave from George Washington University)
Sept.1975-Visiting Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
Jan.1977International Studies, Washington, D.C.
Course:European Integration
Sept.1971-Assistant Professor of Political Science, Williams College, Williamstown,
Jan.1973Massachusetts.
Courses:International Politics
American Political Process
Political Economy of International Economic Relations
Mar.1969-Visiting Research Fellow, Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft
Oct.1970fuer Auswaertige Politik, Bonn, Germany
Sept.1967-Teaching Assistant and Seminar Leader, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
June1968International Studies
Courses:U.S. Foreign Policy
Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy
German Language Instruction
June1967-Marketing Research, National Cash Register Company, Augsburg, Germany
Sept.1967
July1966-Intern, Department of State, Agency for International Development, Vietnam
Sept.1966Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Nov.1963-Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Sept.1965
June1963-Research Assistant for Professor Norman J. Padelford, Center for International
Oct.1963Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Member, Council on Foreign Relations (since 1975)
Member, Board of Directors, Council for the Community of Democracies, Washington, D.C. (since 2006)
Member, Board of Advisors, Alexander Hamilton Society, Washington. D.C. (since 2010)
Member, Policy Council, Una Cox Chapman Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2008-2010
Director, 1989-2013, and Co-Director, 2014, US-Japan-South Korea Legislative Exchange Program, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Member, U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International
Investment, 1989-1993
Member, United Nations Committee for Development Planning, New York,
1985-1992
Member of Board of Editors and Executive Committee, International Organization, 1977-1981
Member, Program Advisory Board, Overseas Development Council, 1985-1989
Lecturer: Foreign Service Institute, Air War College, National War College, Naval War College, Inter-American Defense College, Air Command and Staff College, National Defense University
Consultant, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International, 1977-1981, 1984-1988
Consultant, National Academy of Sciences, 1986-1990
Consultant, National Security Council, 1983-1984
Consultant, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific
Affairs, Department of State, 1977-1981
Consultant, Economic Policy Council, United Nations Association of the United
States of America, 1978-1980
Consultant, National Science Foundation, 1974-1977
Academic Adviser, Project on the Transfer of Technology, and the U.S. Private Sector, Fund for Multinational Management Education and Council of the
Americas (with other sponsors), 1977-1978
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellowship, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, September 2011-June 2012.
Graduate student grants of $25,000 awarded annually for academic years 2008-09 through 2013-14 from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, in recognition of my standing in the academic community, to support a PhD student in the political science department. Recipients: Morgan Lyon-Cotti, Mark Romaniw, Brett Heiney.
Graduate student fellowship grant of $25,000 for academic year 2011-12 from the Rumsfeld Foundation for a PhD candidate in the political science department. Renewed 2013-14. Recipient: Thomas Hill.
Research grant from Carnegie Corporation as co-principal investigator (with Deepa Ollapally, Department of History) exploring domestic foreign policy debates in rising powers to include India, China, Russia, Japan and Iran. July 2009, $425,000 for 2009-2011; Renewed September 2011, $475,000 for 2011-2013.
First recipient of the Harry Harding Teaching Prize at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, May 2007.
Research grants annually ($100,000 plus) from 1989 to the present from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (and in 2006 from the Korea Foundation, $18,500) for support of the U.S.-Japan-South Korea Legislative Exchange Program, research and public policy program which brings together twice a year Members of the U.S. Congress, Japanese Diet, and South Korean National Assembly to discuss the range of issues affecting the three countries.
Research grants from The Century Foundation, New York (formerly The Twentieth Century Fund) and The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) to write a new book on American foreign policy, Sept. 1992-Sept. 1994
Fellowship, Smith-Richardson Foundation, July-December 1987
Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
January-August, 1987
Superior Honor Award, Department of State, January 1977
International Affairs Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations (1975-1976)
National Science Foundation Grant ST-44205 for study of Technology Transfer
and American Foreign Policy (1974-1975)
Phi Beta Kappa (Awarded with Ph.D., May 1973)
Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellowship Grant for additional training and
dissertation research (1968-1970)
NDEA Title IV Fellowship, Johns Hopkins SAIS (1965-1968)
Procter and Gamble Fellowship, M.I.T. (1959-1963)
M.A. with Distinction, Johns Hopkins SAIS (1967)
B.S. with Dean's List Honors for 8 semesters, M.I.T.
(cumulative grade point average 4.4 out of 5.0)
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman and Reagan, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), 321 pp.
Worldviews of Aspiring Powers: Domestic Foreign Policy Debates in China, India, Iran, Japan, and Russia, contributor and co-edited with Deepa M. Ollapally, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 241 pp.
Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 3rd Edition, 2011), 524 pp. First edition published in 2007, second edition in 2009. Introductory textbook on international relations now used at over 250 institutions, including, among others,Cornell University, Yale University, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC San Diego, Georgetown, Syracuse University, Notre Dame, University of Pittsburgh, Ohio State, US Air Force Academy, US Naval Academy, University of Florida, Texas A&M, Pepperdine, Colgate University, Wesleyan University, College of William and Mary, University of North Carolina, University of Minnesota, Free University of Berlin, and Hong Kong University.
International Relations in Perspective: A Reader (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010), 764 pp. Editor and Commentator on collection of 43 seminal and relevant essays on international relations, a companion volume to my textbook.
At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy(Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2002), 314 pp. Also published in Japanese as Amerika no Taigai Kanyo Aidentiti to Pawa. Tokyo, Japan: Yuhikaku Press, 2006
Trade and Security: U.S. Policies at Cross-Purposes, (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 1995), 120pp.
The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s,
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 371 pp. Paperback with new preface published by Oxford University Press in 1992. Also published in Portuguese (Jorge Zahar Editor Ltda, 1992), Chinese (unauthorized) and Japanese (TBS Britannica, 1994).
Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, 4 Volumes. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). Associate Editor. Sponsored by Council on Foreign
Relations, New York.
Domestic Trade Politics and the Uruguay Round, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989), Editor and Contributor, 207pp.
Technology Transfer and U.S. Foreign Policy, (New York: Praeger Publishers,
1976), 315pp.
National Politics and International Technology: Nuclear Reactor Development
in Western Europe, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974), 275pp.
Chapters in Books:
“Ronald Reagan”, in US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion: From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, edited by Michael Cox (London School of Economics), Timothy J. Lynch (University of Melbourne), and Nicolas Bouchet (University of London), (New York: Routledge Press, 2012), pp.138-159
“U.S. Grand Strategies”, in The Oxford Companion to American Politics, edited by David Coates (Wake Forest University) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 450-459
“Introduction: Domestic Voices of Aspiring Powers,” in Worldviews of Aspiring Powers: Domestic Foreign Policy Debates in China, India, Iran, Japan, and Russia, edited by Henry R. Nau and Deepa M. Ollapally(New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 3-36.
“Realism,” in Steven W. Hook and Christopher M. Jones, eds., Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy (New York: Routledge, 2012), Chapter 5, pp. 61-75.
"The Scholar and the Policy-Maker: Who Speaks Truth to Whom?" in Christian Reus-Smit (Australia National University) and Duncan Snidal (University of Chicago) eds., Oxford Handbook on International Relations (London: Oxford University Press, 2008), Chapter 36, pp. 635-648.
“Iraq and Previous Transatlantic Crises: Divided by Threat, Not Institutions or Values", in Jeffrey J. Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, and Thomas Risse, eds. The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order, Cornell University Press, 2008, pp. 82-111.
“The Political Reasons for Global Economic Imbalances: Why Europe Finances American Military Activities Abroad and Economic Consumption at Home", in Jens van Scherpenberg and Katharina Plueck, eds. Sharing the Growing Economic Burden of World Order (Berlin, Germany: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, October 2006), pp. 13-20.
“Alliances or Security Community in Asia: Which Way is Bush Heading?” in Robert W. Hathaway and Wilson Lee, eds., George W. Bush and Asia: A Midterm Assessment (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2003), pp. 131-143.
“Identity and the Balance of Power in Asia”, in G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, eds., International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), pp. 213-243.
“Clinton’s Legacy: US trade leadership languishes” in Klaus Guenter Deutsch and Bernhard Speyer, eds., The World Trade Organization Millennium Round: Freer Trade in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 245-262.
“America’s Identity, Democracy Promotion and National Interests” in Michael Cox, G. John Ikenberry and Takashi Inoguchi, eds., American Democracy Promotion:
Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 127-151.
"Comments" on "American Social Regulation Meets the Global Economy" in Pietro Nivola, ed., Comparative Disadvantage?: Social Regulations and the Global Economy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1997, pp. 68-72.
"Handel miedzynarodowy a bezpieczenstwo narodowe", in Davis B. Bobrow, Edward Halizak and Ryszard Zieba eds., Bezpieczenstwo Narodowe I Miedzynarodowe u Schylku XX Wieku, Warsaw, 1997 (Polish language).
"Europe and America in the 1990s: no time to mothball the Atlantic partnership", in Jonathan Story (ed.), The New Europe: Politics, Government, and Economy since 1945. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers, 1993, pp. 66-91.
"Los Estados Unidos: superpotencia lider", in Rosa Cuminsky (ed.), Mito y
Realidad de la Declinacion de Estados Unidos. Mexico City: Universidad
Nacional Autononade Mexico, 1992, pp. 151-161.
"Conclusion: Export controls in a Changing Strategic Context", in Gary K.
Berstch and Steven Elliott-Gower (eds.), Export Controls in Transition. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992, pp. 317-335.
"Europe Can Help, But Will It?" in Mark B. Rosenberg (ed.), The Changing
Hemispheric Trade Environment. Miami: Florida Atlantic University Latin
American and Caribbean Center, 1991, pp. 88-95.
"Comments", in Gary Bertsch and Steven Elliott-Gower (eds.), The Impact of Governments on East-West Economic Relations, London: Macmillan, 1991, pp. 388-393.
"Commentary" in Jagdish Bhagwati and Hugh T. Patrick (eds.), Aggressive
Unilateralism, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1990, pp. 232- 241.
"Rethinking Economics, Politics and Security in Europe", in Richard Perle (ed.), Reshaping Western Security: The U.S. Faces a United Europe, Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1991, pp. 3-41.
"Export Controls and Free Trade: Squaring the Circle in COCOM", in Gary
Bertsch (ed.), Controlling East-West Trade and Technology Transfer, Durham,
N.C.: Duke University Press, 1988.
"The United States and the NICs in the Uruguay Round: Bargaining Barriers",
in John Yochelson (ed.), Keeping Pace: U.S. Policies and Global Economic
Change, Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1988.
"Policy Comes Before Finance", in Michael T. Clark et. al., The U.S. Approach
to the Latin American Debt Crisis, Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy
Institute, Policy Study Group, February 1988, pp. 51-57. Also published in Economic
Impact, Vol. 4, 1988, A Quarterly Review of World Economics (published by the United States Information Agency).
"Bargaining in the Uruguay Round", in J. Michael Finger and Andrzej Olechowski (eds.), The Uruguay Round: A Handbook on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1987, pp. 75-81.
"The West-West Dimensions of East-West Economic Relations", in Charles M.
Perry and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., (eds.), Selling the Rope to Hang
Capitalism, London: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1987, pp. 204-219.
"International Technology Transfer: Security and Economic Considerations
Under the Reagan Administration", in John R. McIntyre and Daniel S. Papp
(eds), The Political Economy of International Technology Transfer, Qurom
Books (Greenwood Press), 1986, pp. 61-73. Also published in an earlier version as
"International Technology Transfer", The Washington Quarterly, Winter 1985,
pp. 57-64, and in excerpts as "Competition vs. Coordination in Technology Transfer", Economic Impact, A Quarterly Review of World Economics
(published by the United States Information Agency), No. 58, 2/1988, pp.44-50.
"National Policies for High Technology Development and Trade: An International and Comparative Assessment", in Francis W. Rushing and Carole
Ganz Brown (eds.), National Policies for Developing High Technology Industries, Westview Press, 1986, pp. 9-31. Also published as Public Policy Program Working Paper 1986-1, Public Policy Program, Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University.
"The NICs in a New Trade Round", in Ernest H. Preeg (ed.), Hard Bargaining
Ahead: U.S. Trade Policy and Developing Countries, U.S. Third World Policy Perspectives, No. 4, Overseas Development Council, Transaction Books, 1985,
pp. 63-85.
"Kernenergie: Eine Perspektive aus den USA", in Hans Ruhle (ed.), Die Zukunft der Kernenergie, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, October 1982.
"U.S.-Mexican Oil and Gas Relations: A Special Relationship?" in Richard D. Erb (ed.), U.S.-Mexican Relations: Problems and Prospects, American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1981, pp. 195-212.
"Japanese-American Relations During the 1973-74 Oil Crisis", in Michael Blaker (ed.), Oil and the Atom: Issues in U.S.-Japan Energy Relations,
East Asian Institute, Columbia University, Occasional Paper, 1980, pp. 1-37.
"Economics, National Security and Arms Control", in John Barton and
Ryukichi Imai (eds.), Arms Control II: A New Approach to International
Security, Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain, 1980, pp. 113-159.
"The Evolution of U.S. Foreign Policy in Energy: From Alliance Politics to Politics-as-Usual", in Robert M. Lawrence and Martin O. Heisler (eds.), International Energy Policy, Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Co.,1980, pp. 37-65.
"Mexican Gas: The Northern Connection', co-author with Richard R. Fagan, in
Richard R. Fagan (ed.), Capitalism and the State in U.S.-Latin American
Relations, Stanford University Press, 1979, pp. 382-424. Also published as "El Gas
Mexicano: La Conexion del Norte", in Richard R. Fagan (ed.), estado y
clases sociales en las relationes estados unidos--latinoamerica, Centro de
Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico, 1984.
"Technology and U.S. Foreign Energy Policy: Power and Panacea", in George S. Tolley (ed.), International Science and Technology: The Policy Gap, The
Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 1979.
Articles:
“Conservative Internationalism: The Old Foreign Policy “Schools” Debate is Exhausted,” The American Interest, IX, 4 (May/June 2014), pp. 60-68.
“Conservative Internationalism: A Smarter Way to Engage the World,” The National Review, September 30, 2013, pp. 29-32.
“The Jigsaw Puzzle and the Chess Board: The Making and Unmaking of Foreign Policy in the Age of Obama.” Commentary, 133, 5 (May 2012), pp. 13-21.