John Steinbruner
Director
 John D. Steinbruner is Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and Director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). His work has focused on issues of international security and related problems of international policy.
Steinbruner was Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution from 1978-1996. Prior to joining Brookings, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Organization and Management and in the Department of Political Science at Yale University from 1976 to 1978. From 1973 to 1976, he served as Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he also was Assistant Director of the Program for Science and International Affairs. He was Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard from 1969 to 1973 and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1968 to 1969.
Steinbruner has authored and edited a number of books and monographs, including: The Cybernetic Theory of Decision: New Dimensions of Political Analysis (Princeton University Press, originally published 1974, second paperback edition with new preface, 2002); Principles of Global Security (Brookings Institution Press, 2000); and A New Concept of Cooperative Security, co-authored with Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry (Brookings Occasional Papers, 1992). His articles have appeared in Arms Control Today, The Brookings Review, Daedalus, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Security, Scientific American, Washington Quarterly and other journals.
Steinbruner is currently Co-Chair of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chairman of the Board of the Arms Control Association, and board member of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1981 to 2004 he was a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences, serving as Vice Chair from 1996 to 2004. He was a member of the Defense Policy Board of the Department of Defense from 1993 to 1997.
Born in 1941 in Denver, Colorado, Steinbruner received his A.B. from Stanford University in 1963, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968.
(February 2008)
Contact:
jsteinbr@umd.edu
(301) 405-4578
Recent Papers in CISSM Archive:
John Steinbruner, Steinbruner CV, (Curriculum Vitae, November 2009)
John Steinbruner, "Security Policy and the Question of Fundamental Change", (CISSM Working Paper, October 2009)
John Steinbruner, PUAF 720: International Security Policy, (Syllabus, August 2009)
John Steinbruner, Robie I. Samanta Roy, Nancy Gallagher, Jeffrey Lewis, Neal Lane, and George Abbey, Space Policy Briefing, (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Briefing, 07/30/2009)
David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbruner and Katherine Ricke, "The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming?", (Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2009)
John Steinbruner, Managing The Promise and Danger of Biotechnology, (Regional Biosecurity Workshop, Alexandria, Egypt, February 2009)
John Steinbruner, "Engagement With Russia: Managing Risks, Repairing Rifts", (Arms Control Today, January 2009)
John Steinbruner, "Looking Back: Carter's 1978 Declaration and the Significance of Security Assurances", (Arms Control Today, October 2008)
John Steinbruner, Managing the Promise and Danger of Biotechnology, (Regional Biosecurity Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 2008)
John Steinbruner, "Consensual Security", (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April, 2008)
Nancy Gallagher and John Steinbruner, Reconsidering the Rules for Space Security, (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Monograph, 2008)
Steven Kull, John Steinbruner, Nancy Gallagher, Clay Ramsay and Evan Lewis, "Americans and Russians on International Security and Arms Control Questionnaire", (A PIPA/Knowledge Network Poll, January 2008)
John Steinbruner, Letter to Robert Hickey, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, (Final memo, NIC Project, 01/27/2008)
Steven Kull, John Steinbruner, Nancy Gallagher, Clay Ramsay and Evan Lewis, "Americans and Russians on Space Weapons", (A PIPA/Knowledge Network Poll, 01/24/2008)
John Steinbruner and Nancy Gallagher, "If You Lead, They Will Follow: Public Opinion and Repairing the U.S. - Russian Strategic Relationship", (Arms Control Today, January 2008)
John Steinbruner and Tim Gulden, "The Security Implications of Global Warming", (Public Policy, Winter, 2008)
John Steinbruner, Managing the Promise and Danger of Biotechnology, (Regional Biosecurity Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2007)
Steven Kull, John Steinbruner, Nancy Gallagher, Clay Ramsay, and Evan Lewis, "Americans and Russians on Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Disarmament", (A PIPA/Knowledge Network Poll, 11/09/2007)
John Steinbruner, Problems of Prudence: Nuclear Explosives, Biotechnology and Global Warming, (Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award Lecture, 10/24/2007)
John Steinbruner and Tim Gulden, "Violence in Iraq is Beyond Our Control", (The Baltimore Sun, 09/10/2007)
Tim Gulden and John Steinbruner, "Comprehending Violence in Iraq", (Submitted version of Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, 09/10/2007)
John Steinbruner, "Potentially Constructive Implications of Disaster in Iraq", (CISSM Working Paper, 08/31/2007)
Tim Gulden and John Steinbruner, "The Localized Nature of Violence in Iraq", (CISSM Working Paper and Op-Ed Draft, 08/24/2007)
John Steinbruner, Managing The Promise and Danger of Biotechnology, (Regional Biosecurity Workshop, Singapore, May 2007)
John Steinbruner, Elisa D. Harris, Nancy Gallagher, Stacy M. Okutani, Controlling Dangerous Pathogens, (CISSM, March 2007)
John Steinbruner, PUAF 724: Problems of Global Security, (Syllabus, January 2007)
John Steinbruner, "Burdens of Proof: Can Civilization Cope With the Unthinkable?", (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February, 2007)
John Steinbruner, Managing the Destructive Potential of Biotechnology, (Presentation at the Controlling Dangerous Pathogens Project Regional Workshop on Dual-Use Research, Teresopolis, Brazil, December 2006)
John Steinbruner, "In the Name of Defence", (The New Scientist, November 2006)
John Steinbruner, "U.S., Iranian Leaders Walk Through Mine Fields Over Nuclear Impasse", (Catholic Online, June 2006)
John Steinbruner, "The Argument for Oversight: Developments in the US", (Presentation at the Controlling Dangerous Pathogens Project Regional Workshop on Dual-Use Research, Matrahaza, Hungary, May 2006)
Elisa D. Harris, Michael Imperiale, Ottorino Cosivi, Ronald Atlas, John Steinbruner, "Biosecurity Challenges in the Post 9-11 World", (Presentation in the Panel "Biosecurity Challenges in the Post 9-11 World" at American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, 02/18/2006)
John Steinbruner, "The Argument for Oversight", (Presentation in the Panel "Biosecurity Challenges in the Post 9-11 World" at American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, 02/18/2006)
John Steinbruner, "The Protective Oversight of Highly Consequential Biological Research", (Prepared for the Biosafety Parallel Session, International High-Level Forum on Bioeconomy, Beijing, China, 09/14/2005)
Elisa D. Harris and John Steinbruner, "Scientific Openness and National Security after 9/11", (CBW Conventions Bulletin, March 2005)
John Steinbruner, "Review of The Future of Arms Control by Michael A. Levi and Michael E. O'Hanlon", (Arms Control Today, Vol. 35, No. 2, March 2005)
John Steinbruner and Stacy Okutani, "The Protective Oversight of Biotechnology", (Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, December 2004)
John Steinbruner, "Perspective on United States Security Policy", (Presentation before Conference on the United States and Europe: Partners or Rivals Clingendael Institute, the Hague, 11/12/2004)
John Steinbruner and Nancy Gallagher, "Prospects for Security Transformation", (CISSM Working Paper, July 2004)
John Steinbruner and Nancy Gallagher, "Constructive Transformation: an Alternative Vision of Global Security", (Daedalus, Summer, 2004)
Steven Kull, John Steinbruner, Nancy Gallagher, Clay Ramsay, and Evan Lewis, "Americans on WMD Questionnaire", (A PIPA/Knowledge Network Poll, April 2004)
John Steinbruner and Elisa D. Harris, "Dangerous Research: When Science Breeds Nightmares", (International Herald Tribune, 12/03/2003)
John Steinbruner and Elisa D. Harris, "Controlling Dangerous Pathogens", (Issues in Science and Technology, Spring, 2003)
John Steinbruner, "Confusing Ends and Means: The Doctrine of Coercive Pre-emption", (Arms Control Today, January/February, 2003)
John Steinbruner and Jeffrey Lewis, "The Unsettled Legacy of the Cold War", (Daedalus, Fall, 2002)
John Steinbruner, "Dynamics of Islamic Politics", (workshop jointly organized by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland and the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, 02/22/2002)
John Steinbruner, "Protective Oversight of Biotechnology", (CISSM Working Paper, 02/11/2002)
John Steinbruner, The Cybernetic Theory of Decision, (2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 2002)
Carl Kaysen, John Steinbruner, and Martin B. Malin, "U.S. National Security Policy: In Search of a Balance", (in War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives; Committee on International Security Studies, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002)
John Steinbruner, "The Significance of Joint Missile Surveillance", (Occasional Paper of the Committee on International Security Studies, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, July 2001)
John Steinbruner, Nancy Gallagher, and Stacy Okutani, "A Tough Call", (Arms Control Today, May 2001)
John Steinbruner, "NMD and the Wistful Pursuit of Common Sense", (National Security Studies Quarterly, Summer, 2000)
John Steinbruner, "Renovating Arms Control through Reassurance", (The Washington Quarterly, Spring, 2000)
John Steinbruner, Principles of Global Security, (Brookings Press, 2000)
John Steinbruner, "Biological Weapons: A Plague on All Houses", (Foreign Policy, Winter 1997, 1998)
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