Department of Politics
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450

(540) 463-8905 (office)
(540) 463-4170 (home)
(540) 463-8639 (fax)

Degrees:

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1980
M.A., Northern Illinois University, 1977
B.A., Kenyon College, 1970

Professional Experience:

• 1989-Present - William Lyne Wilson Professor of Politics and Department Head, Department of Politics, Washington and Lee University. Primary teaching responsibilities in international relations, American foreign policy, and the presidency.
• 1994-1995 - Randolph P. Compton Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at the White Burkett Miller Center, University of Virginia.
• 1988-1989 - APSA Congressional Fellow. Worked in the offices of Congressman Lee H. Hamilton and Senator Richard G. Lugar.
• 1982-1988 - Tulane University, Department of Political Science. Primary teaching responsibilities in international relations and American foreign policy.
• 1981-1982 - Research Associate at the White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
• 1980-1981 - Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Great Britain.

Congressional Fellowship, American Political Science Association (1988-89).
Outstanding Advisor Award, Arts and Sciences, Tulane University (1985-86).
Student Senate Teaching Award, Tulane University (1984-85)
Regional Finalist, White House Fellowship (1984)

Publications, Book

Bureaucracy and Statesmanship: Henry Kissinger and the Making of American Foreign Policy (University Press of America, 1986).

Decisions and Dilemmas: Case Studies in Presidential Foreign Policy Making (Prentice Hall, 1992).

Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy (Louisiania State University Press, forthcoming).

Articles, Book Chapters & Essays

"Reconsidering Jimmy Carter's Place in History" op-ed, The Roanoke Times (September 13, 1998).

"Jimmy Carter and the Neutron Bomb: The Making of an Indecision," The President, The Bureaucracy, and World Regions in Arms Control, edited by Kenneth W. Thompson (University Press of America, 1998).

"Clinton's Complexities," Miller Center Journal (Spring 1996).

"They're the New Anti-Federalists," co-authored with William Connelly, Roll Call (January 26, 1995).

"Anecdote and Evidence: Jimmy Carter's Annapolis Address on U.S.-Soviet Relations," Miller Center Journal (Spring 1994).

"Arms Control and the Presidency in the Nuclear Age," Presidents and Arms Control, editied by Kenneth W. Thompson (University Press of America, 1994).

"Clinton and Carter Compared," op-ed, co-authored with William Connelly, The Roanoke Times(April 18, 1993).

"October Surprises," Intelligence and National Security (April 1993).

"Jimmy Carter and the Panama Canal Treaties," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Spring 1991).

"Edward Luttwak and Strategy in the 1980s," in Trends in Contemporary Conservative Thought, edited by Mark J. Rozell and James F. Pontuso (Westview Press, 1990).

"The History of Nuclear Futures," Arms Control (May 1989).

"Winston Churchill and War in the Twentieth Century," in Moral Reasoning and Statecraft, edited by Reed Davis (University Press of America, 1988).

"Richard Nixon Revisited," The Virginia QuarterlyReview (Summer 1988).

"The Carter Administration and the Neutron Bomb," jointly authored with Marshal Zeringue, Southeastern Political Science Review (Spring 1988).

"Alexis de Tocqueville and the Abolition of Slavery," Slavery and Abolition (September, 1987).

"Eisenhower and Arms Control," in Reevaluating Eisenhower: American Foreign Policy in the Fifties, edited by Richard Melanson and David Mayer (University of Illinois Press, 1987).

"Recapturing Leadership: The Carter Administration and the Crisis of Confidence," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1986).

"Reading and Misreading Presidents," Teaching Political Science (Spring 1985).

"It's Too Soon to Bury SALT," op-ed, Chicago Tribune (July 17, 1986).

"Nuclear Protest in Britain and America," Arms Control (September 1983).

"The Nuclear Weapon States: Why They Went Nuclear," in Nuclear Proliferation in the 1980s, edited by Christoph Bertram and William Kincade, (St. Martin's, 1982).

"The Trouble With SALT," Arms Control (December 1980).

Conference Participation

Participated in 1991 NATO Discussion Series sponsored by the Atlantic Council in Washington, Brussels & Naples (June-July, 1991).

Presented papers at various professional meetings including the American Political Science Association, the Southern Political Science Association, the Center for the Study of the Presidency, the International Studies Association, Southwestern Social Science Association, and the American Bar Association (1979-96).

Presented a paper to an international conference on "Nuclear Proliferation in the 1980s" in Bellagio, Italy (May 1978).

Current Research

Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Research Policy, a book based on research at the Carter library and interview material collected from President Carter and his White House staff.

Other Professional Activities

Member of the editorial board for The Miller Center Journal.

Professional Consultant to the Compton Foundation (December 1992).

Fellowship Review Committee for the Institute for the Study of World Politics (May 1993).

Book review author for Choice,The American Political Science Review, Political Science Quarterly, The Review of Politics, Armed Forrces & Society, The Social Science Quarterly, The Western Political Quarterly, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Manuscript reviewer for McGraw-Hill, The University of South Carolina Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Westview Press, International Security, Polity, and Presidential Studies Quarterly.