Bruce W. Jentleson, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science  

Office Location: 122 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-9208
Duke Box: 90312
Email Address: bwj7@duke.edu
Web Page:http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/PublicPolicy/faculty/bwj

Areas of Expertise

  • International
    • Conflict Prevention and Peacekeeping
    • Globalization
    • Middle East
    • U.S. Foreign Policy
    • United Nations and International Institutions

Education:
PhD, Cornell University, 1983
American Political Science Association Harold D. Lasswell Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Policy Studies, 1985
M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1975
B.A., Cornell University, 1973
Semester Program, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 1972

Current projects: US Policy in the New Middle East, 21st Century "Big Ideas", Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention

Research Description: American Foreign Policy; 21st Century International Systems; Middle East

Teaching (Fall 2011):

  • Pubpol 264.04, Politics of us foreign policy
    Rubenstein 149, Tu 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
  • Pubpol 320.01, Globalization/governance
    Rubenstein 153, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. B.W. Jentleson. American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century. 4th edition: W.W. Norton, 2010.
  2. B.W. Jentleson. "America's Global Role After Bush." Survival (Autumn, 2007).
  3. B.W. Jentleson. "Who 'Won' Libya? The Force-Diplomacy Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Policy." International Security (Winter, 2005-06). (with Christopher A. Whytock)
  4. B.W. Jentleson. "Effective Multilateralism: US Perspectives." Effective Multilateralism: Through the Looking Glass of East Asia. Ed. Jochen Prantl, Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming
  5. B.W. Jentleson. "Policy Planning: An Integrative Executive Branch Strategy." Avoiding Trivia: The Role of Strategic Planning in American Foreign Policy. Ed. Daniel W. Drezner Brookings Institution Press, 2009

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
Bruce Jentleson is professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, where he served from 2000 to 2005 as director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. His policy experience includes having served as a senior advisor to the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Director from 2009 to 2011.

Jentleson has published numerous books and articles, including American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, a leading university text now in its 4th edition (W.W. Norton, 2010) and The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas, co-authored with Steven Weber (Harvard University Press, 2010). Other recent work includes “Bridging the Beltway-Ivory Tower Gap,”, with Ely Ratner, International Studies Review (March 2011);“America’s Hard Sell” with Steven Weber, Foreign Policy (Nov/Dec 2008 cover story); “America’s Global Role after Bush,” Survival (Autumn 2007); “Who ‘Won’ Libya: The Force-Diplomacy Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Policy” with Christopher A. Whytock, International Security (Winter 2005-06); and “Policy Planning: An Integrative Executive Branch Strategy,” in Avoiding Trivia: The Role of Strategic Planning in American Foreign Policy (Daniel W. Drezner, editor, 2009).

Other policy experience includes serving as a foreign policy aide for Sen. Dave Durenberger (1978-79) and Sen. Al Gore (1987-88); special assistant to the director of the State Department policy planning staff (1993-94); and as a foreign policy advisor to vice presidential candidate Gore (1992) and a senior foreign policy advisor to the Gore presidential campaign (1999-2000).

During the 2008 presidential campaign he was a member of the Phoenix Initiative and a co-author of Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy. He was also on the Preventive Diplomacy Expert Advisory Group to the National Commission on Genocide Prevention and the Presidential Task Force on Preventing Regional Instability from Iran’s Nuclear Progress of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Prior to coming to Duke, Jentleson was a professor at the University of California-Davis and director of the UC Davis Washington Center. He has held research appointments at the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Brookings Institution, Oxford University, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Spain.

He has served as a consultant to the Carnegie Commission for Preventing Deadly Conflict, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Assembly, the Atlantic Council, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has lectured internationally, including in 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 ABC Nightline, the Lehrer News Hour, BBC, Al Jazeera, al Hurra and National Public Radio .

In 2009, Jentleson was the program co-chair for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. He is a co-founder of the International Policy Summer Institute (IPSI) promoting greater policy relevance among academics. He serves on the board of the Close-Up Foundation and the editorial boards of Political Science Quarterly and CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online).

He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and was a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Harold D. Lasswell Award for his doctoral dissertation; a master's from the London School of Economics and Political Science; and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell. He is married to Dr. Barbara C. Jentleson; they have two adult children, Adam and Katie.

Bruce W. Jentleson