Professor of Political Science
Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Hoover Institution
Ph.D., University of Denver


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Phone: (650) 723-6867
Fax: (650) 721-3390



Teaching Interests

International Politics
Politics of Europe, Central Europe and the former Soviet Union
International Security Policy

 



University Activities

Provost, September 1993 - June 1999

Provost's Committee on the Status of Women in the University, 1992 - 1994

University Policy and Planning Board, 1992 - 1993

Search Committee for the President of the University, 1991

Search Committee for the Dean of Admissions, 1991

Search Committee for the Stanford Football Coach, 1988, 1991

Department of Political Science:
Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, 1991, 1992;
Director of Graduate Studies, 1988 - 1989;
Policy and Planning Committee, 1983 - 1984, 1987 - 1988

National Centennial Campaign Faculty, 1988-1989

Executive Committee, Institute for International Studies, 1988 - 1989, 1991 - 1993

Faculty Senate 1988 - 1989

Public Service Center Steering Committee, 1987 and 1991-1999 (Chair)

Freshman Advisor, 1982 - 1985

Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, 1982 - 1985;
1988 - 1989 (Chair)

Presidential Committee for the Selection of the Vice President and Provost, 1983 - 1984



Courses

PS 245R: The Transformation of Europe
Sophomore College: The Fall of Communism and the New World Order



Publications


Books:
The Strategy of Campaigning, with Kiron Skinner, (The University of Michigan Press, 2007).

Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft, with Philip Zelikow, (Harvard University Press, 1995).

The Gorbachev Era, edited with Alexander Dallin, (Stanford Alumni Press Service, 1986).

Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, (Princeton University Press, 1984).

Articles:
"U.S. Must Deploy More Foreign Diplomacy Personnel," with Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright, and Colin Powell, Politico, June 25, 2009.

During Government Service
As Secretary of State
Rethinking the National Interest: American Realism for a New World," Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, July/August 2008.

"Keeping Promises Among Partners," Real Clear Politics, July 16, 2008.

"Diplomacy is Working on North Korea," Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2008.

"Cuba’s Leaders Must Be Held Accountable," with Carlos Gutierrez, Miami Herald, May 22, 2008.

"The Colombia Trade Stakes," Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2008.

"What We Need Next in Iraq," with Gates, Washington Post, February 13, 2008.

"A Civilian Partner for Our Troops," with Senator Lugar, Washington Post, December 17, 2007.

"Latin America:  We Need These Trade Deals," Miami Herald, July 15, 2007.

"The West Needs a Defense System that Works," Daily Telegraph (online edition), April 26, 2007.

"A Path to Lasting Peace," Washington Post, August 16, 2006.

"Our Opportunity with India," Washington Post, March 13, 2006.

"The Promise of Democratic Peace," Washington Post, December 11, 2005.

As National Security Advisor
"U.S., World Clearly are Safer," USA Today, July 16, 2004.

"9/11: For the Record," Washington Post, March 22, 2004.

"You’re Safe With Us," Newsweek (Issues 2004), December 1, 2003.

"Our Asia Strategy," Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2003.

"Transforming the Middle East,” Washington Post, August 7, 2003.

"Our Coalition," Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2003.

"Why We Know Iraq Is Lying," New York Times, January 23, 2003.

"This is No Time to be Coy," USA Today, February 19, 2002.

"Ukraine at 10: Celebration and Challenges," Zerkalo Nedeli (Ukraine), June 11, 2001.

"A Mission to Build on Common Challenges," Washington Times, June 11, 2001.

Prior to Government Service
"Promoting the National Interest," Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, January/February 2000.

"The White House and the Wall," Newsweek Magazine, November 22, 1999.

"The Military Under Democracy," Journal of Democracy, April 1992.

"The General Staff: Learning from the World War II Experience," in Adelman, Jonathan, and Christann Gibson, eds., Contemporary Soviet Military Affairs, (Boston: Unwin, Hyman, 1989).

"Soviet Grand Strategy," in Paul Kennedy, ed., Grand Strategy, (Yale University Press, 1991).

"The Soviet General Staff's View of War," in Michael Fry, ed., History of the White House and the Kremlin (1991).

"A New Army for a New State," Time Magazine, September 3, 1991.

"Defense Decision-Making in the Soviet Union:  Is Gorbachev Changing the Rules of the Game?" Journal of International Affairs, (Spring, 1988); updated version reprinted in Fleron, et al., Contemporary Issues In Soviet Foreign Policy, (New York, De Grueter, 1990).

"US-Soviet Relations and the Reagan Legacy," in Larry Berman, ed., The Reagan Legacy, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).

"The Party, the Military and Decision Authority in the Soviet Union," World Politics, (October, 1987).

"Gorbachev and the Military," Current History, (September, 1986).

"Soviet Command and Control and Crisis Stability," (with David Holloway), in Bruce Blair and Kurt Gottfried, ed., Crisis Stability, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).

"SALT and the Search for a Security Regime," in Alexander George, Philip Farley and Alexander Dallin, eds., US-Soviet Security Cooperation, Achievements, Failures, Lessons, (New York: Oxford, 1988).

"The Makers of Soviet Strategy," in Gordon Craig and Peter Paret, The Makers of Modern Strategy, (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1986).

"The Military-Technical Revolution and the General Staff in the Soviet Union," in Herbert Goodman, Science and Technology in the Soviet Union, (Stanford Conference Report on Soviet Technology, 1984).

"Warsaw Pact Reliability:  The Czechoslovak People's Army," in Daniel Nelson, ed., The Problem of Reliability in the Warsaw Pact (Boulder: Westview, 1984).

"Defense Burden-sharing in the Warsaw Pact," in Jane M.O. Sharp and David Holloway, eds., The Warsaw Pact (Yale University Press, 1984).

"The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in the Warsaw Pact," in Jeffrey Boutwell, ed. Theater Nuclear Forces in Europe (New York:  Ballinger, 1984).

"Political Terror in Czechoslovakia," in Jonathan Adelman ed., Terror in Communist Systems, (Boulder:  Westview Press, 1983).

"The Soviet Decision to Invade Hungary," with Michael Fry, Studies in Comparative Communism, Winter 1983.

"The Czechoslovak People's Army," in Jonathan Adelman ed., Communist Armies in Politics (Boulder:  Westview Press, 1982).

"The Problem of Elite Cohesion in the Warsaw Pact," Air University Review, April, 1981.