EDWARD RHODES
School of Policy, Government, and Int’l Affairs
George Mason University
3551 Fairfax Drive, MS 3B1
Arlington, VA 22201
Tel: 703-993-8497
Email: [email protected]
Fax: 703-993-8215
EDUCATION
Ph.D.:
MPA:
A.B.:
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1985.
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1982.
Harvard University, 1980 (magna cum laude).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010 – present
PROFESSOR, Schar School of Policy and Government (School of Policy,
Government, and International Affairs, 2014-2016; School of Public Policy, 20102014), George Mason University.
2010 - 2013
DEAN, School of Public Policy, George Mason University.
2007 – 2009
VISITING PROFESSOR, Department of Politics, Princeton University.
2003 – 2006
DEAN, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University.
1997 – 2003
DIRECTOR, Center for Global Security and Democracy, Rutgers University.
1989 - 1990
VISITING SCHOLAR, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard
University.
1988 – 1990
AFFILIATE, ASSOCIATE Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
1986 – 2010
PROFESSOR, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University (Assistant Professor,
1986-1992; Associate Professor 1992-2005).
1985 – 1986
FELLOW, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
1984 -1985
FELLOW, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University.
1984
VISITING SCHOLAR, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University.
VISITING FACULTY APPOINTMENTS AT OVERSEAS UNIVERSITIES
2015
Akita International University, Japan
2013
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
2000-2001
University of Latvia, Latvia
FELLOWSHIPS
2016 – 2017
Fenwick Fellowship, George Mason University.
2000 - 2001
Fulbright Fellowship, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, DC.
1996 - 1997
International Affairs Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
1990 - 1991
Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, Harvard University.
1990
21st Century Trust Fellowship, 21st Century Trust, London, UK.
1989 - 1990
Charles Warren Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History,
Harvard University.
1985 - 1986
Ford Program Fellowship in European Society and Western Security, Center for
International Affairs and Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
1985 - 1986
Paul-Henri Spaak Fellowship in U.S.-European Relations, Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University.
1984 - 1985
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Arms Control and Disarmament, U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, Washington, DC.
1984 - 1985
Arms Control Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford
University.
1984
Peace Studies Fellowship, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University.
1980 - 1984
University Fellowship, Princeton University.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books:
(Edward Rhodes, Jonathan DiCicco, Sarah Milburn, and Thomas Walker), Presence, Prevention, and Persuasion: A
Historical Analysis of Military Force and Political Influence, Lexington Books, 2004.
Power and MADness: The Logic of Nuclear Coercion, Columbia University Press, 1989. (Paperback edition, 1991.)
Refereed Edited Books:
(Peter Trubowitz, Emily O. Goldman, and Edward Rhodes) The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions,
and Interests, Columbia University Press, 1999.
Unrefereed Edited Books:
Engineering America: The Rise of the American Professional Class, 1838-1920, Policy Studies Organization/Westphalia
Press, 2014.
(Ryo Oshiba, Edward Rhodes, and Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru) "We the People" in the Global Age: Re-examination of
Nationalism and Citizenship, Japan Center for Area Studies, 2002.
Edited Textbooks:
(Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes) Introducing Globalizations, Sage/CQ Press, 2013.
(Edward Rhodes and Jonathan M. DiCicco) International Relations (five editions), Kendall/Hunt Publishing,
1992, 1998, 2003, 2006, 2010.
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(Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes) Global Politics in a Changing World (four editions), HoughtonMifflin, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009).
Refereed Articles:
(Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes) “The National State and Identity Politics: State
Institutionalization and ‘Markers’ of National Identity,” Geopolitics, July 2007.
(Richard Harknett, Steven Biddle, Jan Breemer, Daniel Deudney, Peter Feaver, Ben Frankel, Emily Goldman,
Chaim Kaufmann, William Martel, and Edward Rhodes) "The Risks of a Networked Military," Orbis,
Winter 2000.
"Sea Change: Interest-Based and Cultural-Cognitive Accounts of Strategic Adjustment in the 1890s," Security
Studies, Summer 1996.
"Constructing Peace and War: An Analysis of the Power of Ideas to Shape American Military Power,"
Millennium Journal of International Studies, Spring 1995.
"Do Bureaucratic Politics Matter? Some Disconfirming Findings from the Case of the U.S. Navy," World
Politics, October 1994.
"Hawks, Doves, Owls, and Loons: Extended Deterrence Without Flexible Response," Millennium Journal of
International Studies, Spring 1990.
"Deep Cuts at Sea: Superpower Naval Reductions in the Post-Cold War Period," Arms Control, September
1990.
"Nuclear Weapons and Credibility: Deterrence Theory Beyond Rationality," Review of International Studies,
January 1988.
Unrefereed Articles
“Challenges of Globalization, Flattening, and Unbundling,” South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases
[India], June 2013.
“Why Nations Fight: Spirit, Identity, and Imagined Community,” Security Studies, April 2012.
“Identity at the Crossroads,” The American Review [Australia], September 2011.
“The Good, the Bad, and the Righteous: Understanding the Bush Vision of a New NATO Partnership,”
Millennium Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2004.
"American Grand Strategy: The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda," Policy [Australia], Summer 2003-04.
“Transforming the Alliance: The Bush Administration’s Vision of NATO,” Connections [Germany], November
2003.
"The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda," Survival, Spring 2003.
"America and the Construction of East Asian Security: Mental Architecture and Security Architecture,"
Taiwan Defense Affairs, Fall 2001.
"The American View of Baltic Security Architecture: Understanding the Northern Europe Initiative," Baltic
Defense Review [Estonia], [December] 2000.
"Conventional Deterrence," Comparative Strategy, Fall 2000.
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(Edward Rhodes, Jonathan DiCicco, Sarah Milburn Moore, and Thomas Walker) "Forward Presence and
Engagement: Historical Insights into the Problem of 'Shaping,'" Naval War College Review, Winter
2000.
"'...From the Sea' and Back Again: Naval Power in the Second American Century," Naval War College Review,
Spring 1999.
republished in Peter Dombrowski, editor, Naval Power in the Twenty-first Century (Newport: Naval War
College Press, 2005).
"New Money and Old Ships: Budget Reductions and the 'Hollowing Out' of the U.S. Fleet through Age,"
Defense Analysis, April 1994.
"Wilson, Roosevelt, and Defense Policy in the 1990s," Defense Analysis, November 1992.
"Amerikansk Forsvarspolitik och den Nya Varldsordningen" [U.S. Defense Policy and the New World Order"],
Internationella Studier [Sweden], Fall 1992.
"Naval Arms Control for the Bush Era," SAIS Review, Summer/Fall 1990.
"Subversive Submarines," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1990.
"The Second Wave Revisited: Ahistorical Approaches to Theory," International Studies Notes, Winter 1987.
Book Chapters
“U.S. Policy toward Latvia in the Pot-Crimea Era,” in Andris Spruds and Diana Potjomkina, eds., Latvia and the
USA: An Ever Closer Partnership in a Changing World, Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 2016.
“U.S. Foreign Policy, American Support for Democracy, and the Election of 2008: Implications for U.S.
Relations with the Republics of Central Asia,” in Bekir Gunay, ed., Social, Political, and Economic Search
in Central Asian Societies, Kocaeli University [Turkey], 2009.
(Edward Rhodes and Richard W. Mansbach) “Blood, Tongue, Culture, Confession, and Citizenship: National
‘Markers,’ Identity, and Violence,” in Konstantin Khudoley and Thomas J. Volgy, eds., Reflecting on a
Wider Europe and Beyond: Norms, Rights, and Interests, St. Petersburg State University [Russia], 2007.
"Onward, Liberal Soldiers? The Crusading Logic of Bush's Grand Strategy and What Is Wrong with It," in
Lloyd Gardner and Marilyn Young, eds., The New American Empire, New Press, 2005.
“Good, Evil, God, and NATO: The Bush Administration’s Vision of the New Atlantic Partnership,” in
Andres Kasekamp, ed., Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook 2004, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute
[Estonia], 2004.
"A World Not in the Balance," in T.V. Paul, James J. Wirtz, and Michel Fortmann, eds., Balance of Power: Theory
and Practice in the 21st Century, Stanford University Press, 2004.
"Rethinking the Nature of Security: America's Northern Europe Initiative," in Irina Busygina, ed.., New Frontiers
of Europe: Opportunities and Challenges, MGIMO University [Moscow, Russia], 2003.
"America, the Baltic States, and Russia: The U.S. Northern Europe Initiative and Hanseatic Models of
Security," in Konstantin Khudoley and Stanislav Tkachenko, eds., Challenges to International Relations in
Post-Cold War Europe, St. Petersburg State University [Russia], 2002.
"Charles Evans Hughes Reconsidered, Or: The Case for Liberal Isolationism," in Anthony Lake and David
Ochmanek, eds., The Real and the Ideal: The Ideas of Richard Ullman in a Changing International Order,
Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
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"The Northern European Initiative and U.S. Visions of Baltic Security," in Andres Kasekamp, ed., Organizing
Europe's Place in World Affairs: The European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy, Tartu University
Press [Estonia], 2001.
Book Reviews:
Review of The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion by Richard Drake, Political
Science Quarterly, Winter 2014.
Review of Ethics and International Relations by Gordon Graham, Naval War College Review, Winter 2010.
Review of Nineteenth-Century Nationalism and Twentieth-Century Anti-Democratic Ideals: The Case of Latvia, 1840s to
1980s by Ieva Zake, Millennium Journal of International Studies, August 2010.
SELECTED LIST OF OVERSEAS PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATIONS
“U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Effects on Regional Peace in South Asia,” NUST International Seminar on Peace
and Conflict Resolution, Islamabad, Pakistan, October 2013.
Participant, “Mission to Israel and Palestine Authority;” Academic Exchange, Yitzhak Rabin Center, and
RAND Corporation; Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramallah; July 2012.
“The Historical Roots and Constitutional Principles of the U.S. Judicial System,” the Justices of the Peruvian
Supreme Court, Lima, Peru, June 2012; and International Conference on Public Management for the
Justice Sector, the University of San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru, June 2012.
“’The ‘Isolationist’ Imperative of ‘An Empire of Liberty’: Republicanism, Liberalism, and the Philosophical
Roots of American Foreign Policy,” British International Studies Association, Edinburgh, UK, March
2010.
Participant, Conference on “Empires over Europe,” University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,
October 2008.
“Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and George W. Bush: Fundamentalist Identities and America in
Global Politics,” World International Studies Committee Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2008.
“Beyond Red and Blue: Melting Pots, Rainbows, Civic Nationalism, and the Problem of Identity in 21st
Century America,” NORFACE Conference on “The Transatlantic Relationship and the Struggle for
Europe,” Dublin, Ireland, August 2007.
Participant, INTAS Conference on “Rethinking Russia,” Keele, United Kingdom, May 2007.
“Identity, Civil Violence, and Interstate Violence: A Theoretical Framework and Implications for European
Order,” Central and Eastern European International Studies Association, Tartu, Estonia, June 2006.
“Identity Politics and the Future of the State,” World International Studies Committee, Istanbul, Turkey,
August 2005.
Conference Co-Convenor, Workshop-Conference on “A Laboratory in the Margins? The EU’s and Russia’s
Policies in Northern Europe,” Center for Global Security and Democracy and Danish Institute for
International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2003.
Fellow, Conference on "Russia and the West," Twenty-First Century Trust, Klingenthal, France, June 2003.
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"Constructing European Security after Prague: The United States Searches for Useful Pasts and Attractive
Futures," Central and Eastern European International Studies Association and International Studies
Association International Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2003.
Fellow, Conference on "NATO, the EU, and the Middle East: Security Scenarios," Twenty-First Century
Trust, Ankara, Turkey, October 2002.
"The United States and the Northern Dimension: America's Northern Europe Initiative," Think-Tank Seminar
on the Northern Dimension and the Future of Barents Euro-Arctic Cooperation, the Governor of
Norrbotten County and the Government of Sweden, Bjorkliden, Sweden, June 2001.
"Constructing U.S. Foreign Policy: Identity and International Relations," University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia,
December 2000.
"Forward into the Past," Baltic Defense College, Tartu, Estonia, December 2000.
"American Perspectives," Conference on the Security Architecture of Northern Europe, Latvian Institute of
International Affairs, Latvian Ministry of Defense, NATO, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation,
Riga, Latvia, September 2000.
"Isolationism and Nationalism in American Foreign Policy: Lessons from the 1920s," Japan Center for Area
Studies, Tokyo, Japan, November 1999.
Member, Study Group, “The Baltic States and St. Petersburg: A Post-Imperial Renaissance?” Twenty-First
Century Trust, Vilnius, Lithuania; Riga, Latvia; Tallinn, Estonia; and St. Petersburg, Russia, May 1999.
SELECTED LIST OF U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT WORK
2015
Member, Foreign Service Officer Promotion Board..
2013-present
Lecturer, International Visitor Leadership Program.
2003 - 2009
Member, Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, United States
Department of State (Chair, Subcommittee on Foreign Relations of the United States, 2006-2009).
SELECTED LIST OF OTHER INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
2012
Reviewer, Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program Host University Competition in the
Field of Public Policy Analysis/Public Administration, Institute of International Education.
2005 – 2007
Member, CIES-Fulbright Peer Review Committee for Baltic/Balkans.
2002 – 2004
Member, Fulbright Senior Scholars Program Advisory Board, Council for the International
Exchange of Scholars.
2001
External Referee, Accreditation Review, Department of Political Science, University of
Latvia.
2000
Fellowship Reviewer, Fulbright and Humphrey Fellowship Programs, U.S. Embassy, Riga,
Latvia.
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