Education:
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Expertise:
US foreign policy, international politics, US foreign economic policy; international political economy
Background:
Professor Nau holds a B.S. degree in Economics, Politics, and Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
He has taught at Williams College and as Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Stanford, and Columbia Universities. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a recipient of research grants from the National Science Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Century Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. He directs the US-Japan and US-Japan-South Korea Legislative Exchange Programs sponsored by the Japan-US Friendship Commission, which brings together on a semiannual basis Members of the U.S. Congress, Japanese Diet, and South Korean National Assembly to informally discuss core issues in domestic and foreign affairs.
From January 1981 to July 1983, he served as a senior staff member of the National Security Council in the White House responsible for international economic affairs. Among other duties, he coordinated White House policy preparations for the then G-7 Annual Economic Summits. Dr. Nau also served, in 1975-77, as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in the Department of State.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of the Superior Honor Award from the Department of State. He has served on the Board of Editors of the journal, International Organization, and as consultant to numerous organizations, including, among others, the National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, National Security Council, World Bank and United Nations Association. He is a former member of the U.N. Committee for Development Planning and the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Investment. He served two years as a Lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Dr. Nau is the author of numerous books and articles. His books include Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas (CQ Press, 2006); At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2002; Japanese translation by Yuhikaku Press, 2006); Trade and Security: US Policies at Cross- Purposes (American Enterprise Institute Press, 1995); The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990's (Oxford University Press, 1990, Japanese translation by TBS Britannica, 2004, also published in Portuguese and Chinese); and National Politics and International Technology: Nuclear Reactor Development in Western Europe (Johns Hopkins, 1974). His most recent articles and monographs include "Why We Fight Over Foreign Policy," Policy Review (April/May 2007); "No Enemies on the Right: Conservative Foreign Policy Factions Beyond Iraq," The National Interest (Winter 2004/05); and Divided Diplomacy and the Next Administration: Conservative and Liberal Alternatives, (164 pp.) co-edited with David Shambaugh and published by the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, October 2004.
Courses Taught:
IAff 5 Intro to International Affairs: A Washington Perspective
PSc 247 US Foreign Policy after the Cold War
Psc 289 Identity and the Origin of Major Wars
Last update: 10/9/2007
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