Bruce Jentleson

Bruce Jentleson
Jentleson speaks at the Library of Congress in 2019
Born
Bruce W. Jentleson

(1951-06-26) June 26, 1951 (age 73)
New York City, NY
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisPipeline Politics (1983)
Doctoral advisorPeter J. Katzenstein
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Bruce W. Jentleson (born June 26, 1951)[1] is a professor of public policy and political science at Duke University,[2] where he served from 2000 to 2005 as Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He previously was a professor at the University of California, Davis and Director of the UC Davis Washington Center. In addition to his academic career, he has served in a number of foreign policy positions in Democratic administrations.

Early life and education

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Jentleson was born in 1951 in New York City. He grew up in Baldwin, New York. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1973[3] from Cornell University.[4] He obtained a master's degree in 1975 from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He obtained a PhD in 1983[5] from Cornell University.

Career

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Bruce W. Jentleson is William Preston Few Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Other positions include Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars[6] (also a 2022 Distinguished Fellow in residence) and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.[7] He was the longtime co-director and now senior advisor for the Bridging the Gap project promoting greater policy engagement among academics.[8]

Career awards include the 2018 American Political Science Association (APSA) International Security Section Joseph J. Kruzel Award for Distinguished Public Service;[9] the 2020 Duke University Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award;[10] and the 1985 APSA Harold D. Lasswell Award for his doctoral dissertation.[11] He holds a PhD from Cornell University.

His most recent books are Economic Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2022) and The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from 20th Century Statesmanship (W.W. Norton, 2018). Recent articles include “American Consensus on Ukraine Has FracturedForeignPolicy.com, March 29, 2023; “Will the American-Ukraine Consensus Start to Crack?The National Interest, February 23, 2023; “Who’s Winning the Sanctions War?ForeignPolicy.com, August 18, 2022; “Refocusing U.S. Grand Strategy on Pandemic and Environmental Mass Destruction,” The Washington Quarterly (Fall 2020); and “Be Wary of China Threat Inflation,” ForeignPolicy.com, July 30, 2021. Op-eds and blogs have been published in The Washington Post, War on the Rocks, The National Interest, The Monkey Cage, Duck of Minerva, The Hill, The Conversation, Pass Blue, Raleigh News and Observer, and elsewhere.

He has served in a number of US foreign policy positions including Senior Advisor to the State Department Policy Planning Director (2009–11), a senior foreign policy advisor to the 2000 Gore presidential campaign, in the Clinton administration State Department (1993–94), and as a foreign policy aide to Senators Gore (1987–88) and Dave Durenberger (1978–79).

Other research appointments include the 2020 Desmond Ball Visiting Chair at Australia National University, College of Asia and the Pacific;[12] 2015-16 Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress;[13] Oxford University Visiting Senior Research Fellow (2007);[14] Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Madrid, Spain (2007);[15] and Brookings Institution Guest Scholar (1988–90).[16]

In 2009 he was Program Co-chair for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.[17] He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Political Science Quarterly,[18] Washington Quarterly[19], Global R2P, and CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online).[20] He is co-editor of the Oxford University Press Bridging the Gap book series.[21]

He has lectured internationally including in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Qatar, Spain, South Korea, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. He is often quoted in the press and has appeared on such shows as the PBS News Hour, BBC, Al Jazeera, al Hurra, China Radio International, and NPR, as well as regional media in the North Carolina Research Triangle.

Personal life

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Jentleson is married to Dr. Barbara Cooney Jentleson.[22] He is the father of Adam Jentleson and Katherine Jentleson.[23]

Books

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  • Economic Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2022).[24]
  • The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship (W.W. Norton and Company, April 2018).[25]
  • co-editor with Louis W. Pauly, Power in a Complex Global System, (Routledge, 2014).[26]
  • American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 5th edition 2013, 4th edition 2010, 3rd edition 2006, 2nd edition 2004, 1st edition 2000).[27]
  • co-author with Steve Weber, The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas, (Harvard University Press, 2010).[28]

References

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  1. ^ Biographical Membership Directory. International Studies Association. 1992. p. 100.
  2. ^ "Bruce W. Jentleson". Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  3. ^ https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/28052/1/091_10.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ "People - Sanford School of Public Policy". Fds.duke.edu. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  5. ^ https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/28173/1/107_01.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ "Bruce Jentleson | Wilson Center". wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  7. ^ "Bruce Jentleson". globalaffairs.org. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  8. ^ "Bruce Jentleson | Bridging the Gap". Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  9. ^ Sanford School of Public Policy (September 4, 2018). "Jentleson Honored for Scholarship, Public Service". sanford.duke.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2023. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  10. ^ Policy, Sanford School of Public. "Alumni Honor Faculty Member for Undergraduate Teaching | Sanford School of Public Policy". sanford.duke.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2023. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  11. ^ Jentleson, Bruce W. "Strategic Choices and Dangerous Traps" (PDF). Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  12. ^ "2020 Des Ball Chair Public Lecture – Professor Bruce Jentleson". Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. February 7, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  13. ^ Avilés, Giselle M. "Research Guides: Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations: Past Kissinger Chairs, 2012-2016". guides.loc.gov. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  14. ^ "Visiting Senior Research Fellow. Oxford University, Changing Character of War Programme, Center for International Studies and Nuffield College. | Scholars@Duke". scholars.duke.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  15. ^ "Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. Fundacion de Relaciones Internacionales y Dialogo Exterior (FRIDE), Madrid, Spain. | Scholars@Duke". scholars.duke.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  16. ^ "Guest Scholar. Brookings Institution . | Scholars@Duke". scholars.duke.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  17. ^ "Executive Director's Report". PS: Political Science and Politics. 43 (1): 172–180. 2010. ISSN 1049-0965. JSTOR 25699320.
  18. ^ "Political Science Quarterly: Editorial Board". psqonline.org. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  19. ^ "The Washington Quarterly: Editorial Board". Taylor & Francis Online. May 15, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  20. ^ "Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)". Columbia University Press. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  21. ^ "Bridging the Gap Series with Oxford University Press | Bridging the Gap". Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  22. ^ "Barbara Jentleson | Scholars@Duke". scholars.duke.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  23. ^ "Katherine Jentleson". High Museum of Art. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  24. ^ Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know®. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. September 27, 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-753032-0.
  25. ^ "The Peacemakers". wwnorton.com. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  26. ^ "Power in a Complex Global System". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  27. ^ "American Foreign Policy". wwnorton.com. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  28. ^ "The End of Arrogance – Steven Weber, Bruce W. Jentleson". hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
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