Professor Emeritus
Expertise by Geographic Area:
Africa; Middle East; Northern Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa Expertise by Issue:
Conflict Resolution and Negotiation; Crisis Management; Developing Nations; Diplomacy; Human Rights; Humanitarian Crises and Relief Efforts; International Relations; Peacekeeping; Political Risk Analysis; Treaty Negotiations Background and Education:
Served as the Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution at SAIS for nearly 20 years; former director of SAIS Conflict Management and African Studies programs; former faculty member at the University of South Carolina and New York University; served as Olin Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Halevy Professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and visiting professor at the American University in Paris; was a consultant to the U.S. Department of State; president of the Tangier American Legation Museum Society; past president of the Middle East Studies Association and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies; member of the Steering Committee of Processes of International Negotiations based at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria; received an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Louvain; Ph.D., international relations, Yale University Languages:
French Publications:
Negotiation and Conflict Management: Essays on Theory and Practice (2007); Diplomacy Games: Formal Models and International Negotiations, co-editor (2007); Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques, editor (2007, revised edition); Getting In: Mediators’ Entry Into the Settlement of African Conflicts, co-author (2006); Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques, editor (2006, revised edition); Cowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse (2005); Escalation and Negotiation in International Conflict, co-editor (2005); Negotiating With Terrorists, editor (2005, revised edition); Peace Versus Justice: Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes, co-editor (2005); Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed and Greed, co-editor (2005); Getting It Done: Post-Agreement Negotiation and International Regimes, co-editor (2003); A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement, co-editor (2002); Preventive Negotiation: Avoiding Conflict Escalation, editor (2001); Power and Negotiation, co-editor (2000); International Multilateral Negotiations: Approaches to the Management of Complexity, editor (1999); International Negotiation: Actors, Structure/Process, Values, co-editor (l999); Collapsed States, co-author and editor (1995); Elusive Peace, co-author and editor (1995); International Multilateral Negotiation, co-author and editor (1994); Ripe for Resolution: Conflict and Intervention in Africa (1985, 1989); The Practical Negotiator (1982); International Relations in the New Africa (1966, 1987) |
