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EDWARD RHODES

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EDWARD RHODES, Professor, received his A.B. from Harvard University and his MPA and Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1986, Rhodes held research appointments at Cornell, Stanford, and Harvard Universities; since coming to New Brunswick, he has held appointments at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard's Center for International Affairs, and the Defense Intelligence College and has been the recipient of a 21st Century Trust Fellow and a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs. Rhodes spent 1996-97 as an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, serving on the Strategy and Concepts Branch of the Navy Staff in the Pentagon, and he spent the fall 2000 term in Riga, Latvia as a Fulbright Fellow. From 1997 to 2003 he was Director of the Center for Global Security and Democracy, and from 2003 to 2006 he served as Dean for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. He is currently a member of the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, which oversees the production and publication of the official history of American foreign policy, The Foreign Relations of the United States. Rhodes's research deals with U.S. national security policy, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. naval policy, and the role of identity construction and of cultural and cognitive frameworks in shaping state decisions. He is the author of Power and MADness: The Logic of Nuclear Coercion (Columbia, 1989); co-author, with Rutgers graduate students Jonathan DiCicco, Sarah Milburn, and Thomas Walker, of Presence, Prevention, and Persuasion: A Historical Analysis of Military Force and Political Influence (Lexington Books, 2004); and co-editor, with Peter Trubowitz and Emily Goldman, of The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interest (Columbia, 1998). Rhodes is also the co-editor of two undergraduate textbooks: Global Politics in a Changing World, with Richard Mansbach, and International Relations: Introductory Readings, with Jonathan DiCicco. Rhodes's essays and articles include: "The Good, the Bad, and the Righteous: Understanding the Bush Vision of a New NATO Partnership," Millennium (2004); "A World Not in the Balance," in Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (Stanford , 2004); "The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda," Survival (2003); "America, the Baltic States, and Russia: The U.S. Northern Europe Initiative and Hanseatic Models of Security," in 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 The Real and the Ideal: The Ideas of Richard Ullman in a Changing International Order (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001); "Conventional Deterrence," Comparative Strategy (2000); "'...From the Sea' and Back Again: Naval Power in the Second American Century," Naval War College Review (1999); "Sea Change: Interest-Based and Cultural-Cognitive Accounts of Strategic Adjustment in the 1890s," Security Studies (1996), "Constructing Peace and War: An Analysis of the Power of Ideas to Shape American Military Power," Millennium (1995), "Do Bureaucratic Politics Matter? Some Disconfirming Findings from the Case of the U.S. Navy," World Politics (1992), "Wilson, Roosevelt, and Defense Policy in the 1990s," Defense Analysis (1992), "Deep Cuts at Sea: Superpower Naval Reductions in the Post-Cold War Period," Arms Control (1990), "Hawks, Doves, Owls and Loons: Extended Deterrence Without Flexible Response," Millennium (1990) and "Nuclear Weapons and Credibility: Deterrence Theory Beyond Rationality," Review of International Studies (1988). Rhodes was named Rutgers College's "Teacher of the Year" in 1995.


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