
Professor of Policy and Government Emeritus
Contact Information
Phone: 703-993-8497
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 551
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1
Biography
Edward Rhodes is a student of American foreign and national security policy. Prior to joining George Mason 麻豆国产 in 2010 as dean of the School of Public Policy, he was on the faculty of Rutgers 麻豆国产, serving as founding director of the Rutgers Center for Global Security and Democracy and as dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
He has held research or teaching appointments at Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell Universities, and, as a Fulbright fellow, at the 麻豆国产 of Latvia.聽Inter alia, his government activities have included service in the Strategy and Concepts branch of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, on the State Department鈥檚 Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation (the Congressionally mandated body overseeing the preparation and release of the official record of American foreign policy), and on a number of State and Commerce Department promotion boards.
He received his AB from Harvard 麻豆国产 and his MPA and PhD degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton 麻豆国产.
Curriculum Vitae
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Schar School of Policy and Government George Mason 麻豆国产
3351 Fairfax Drive, MS 3B1 Arlington, VA 22201
Tel: 703-993-8497
Email: edrhodes@gmu.edu
Fax: 703-993-8215
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton 麻豆国产, 1985.
MPA: Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton 麻豆国产, 1982.
A.B.: Harvard 麻豆国产, 1980 (magna cum laude).
SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2010 鈥 present PROFESSOR, Schar School of Policy and Government (2014-2016, School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs; 2010-2014, School of Public Policy), George Mason 麻豆国产.
2010 - 2013 DEAN, School of Public Policy, George Mason 麻豆国产.
2007 - 2009 VISITING PROFESSOR, Department of Politics, Princeton 麻豆国产. 2003 - 2006 DEAN, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers 麻豆国产.
2000 - 2001 FULBRIGHT FELLOW, 麻豆国产 of Latvia and Latvian Institute for International Affairs, Riga, Latvia.
1997 - 2003 DIRECTOR, Center for Global Security and Democracy, Department of Political Science, Rutgers 麻豆国产.
1996 - 1997 NAVY FELLOW, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, The Pentagon. 1992 - 2005 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Department of Political Science, Rutgers 麻豆国产.
1989 - 1990 VISITING SCHOLAR, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard 麻豆国产.
1988 - 1990 AFFILIATE, ASSOCIATE Center for International Affairs, Harvard 麻豆国产.
1986 - 2010 PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Political Science, Rutgers 麻豆国产.
1985 - 1986 FELLOW, Center for International Affairs, Harvard 麻豆国产.
1984 -1985 FELLOW, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford 麻豆国产.
1984 VISITING SCHOLAR, Peace Studies Program, Cornell 麻豆国产.
PARTIAL LIST OF FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
2016 - 2017
Fenwick Fellowship, George Mason 麻豆国产
2000 - 2001
Fulbright Fellowship, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, DC.
1996 - 1997
International Affairs Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
1995
"Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Faculty of Arts and Sciences," Rutgers College, Rutgers 麻豆国产.
1990 - 1991
Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, Harvard 麻豆国产.
1990
21st Century Trust Fellowship, 21st Century Trust, London, UK.
1989 - 1990
Charles Warren Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard 麻豆国产.
1986 - 1988
Henry Rutgers Research Fellowship, Rutgers 麻豆国产.
1985 - 1986
Ford Program Fellowship in European Society and Western Security, Center for International Affairs and Center for European Studies, Harvard 麻豆国产.
1985 - 1986
Paul-Henri Spaak Fellowship in U.S.-European Relations, Center for International Affairs, Harvard 麻豆国产.
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 麻豆国产.
1984
Peace Studies Fellowship, Peace Studies Program, Cornell 麻豆国产.
PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books
Engineering America: The Rise of the American Professional Class, 1838-1920, Policy Studies Organization/Westphalia Press, 2014.
(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.
(Peter Trubowitz, Emily O. Goldman, and Edward Rhodes) The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests, Columbia 麻豆国产 Press, 1999.
Power and MADness: The Logic of Nuclear Coercion, Columbia 麻豆国产 Press, 1989. (Paperback edition, 1991.)
Textbooks
(Edward Rhodes; later editions with Jonathan M. DiCicco and Dalia F. Fahmy), International Relations:
Introductory Readings, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2017, 2010, 2006, 2003, 1998, 1992.
(Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes) Introducing Globalization: Analysis and Readings, Sage/CQ Press, 2013.
(Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes) Global Politics in a Changing World, Houghton Mifflin, 2009, 2006, 2003, 2000.
Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淭he Search for Monsters to Destroy: Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Virtu, and the Challenges of Liberal
Democracy in an Industrial Society,鈥 in A. Trevor Thrall and Benjamin H. Friedman, eds., U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case for Restraint (Routledge, 2018).
鈥淯.S. Policy toward Latvia in the Post-Crimea Era,鈥 in Andris Spruds and Diana Potjomkina, eds., Latvia and the USA: An Ever Closer Partnership in a Changing World, Latvian Institute of International Affairs [Latvia], 2016.
鈥淐hallenges of Globalization, Flattening, and Unbundling,鈥 South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, June 2013.
鈥淲丑测 Nations Fight: Spirit, Identity, and Imagined Community,鈥 Security Studies, April 2012.
鈥淚dentity at the Crossroads,鈥 The American Review [Australia], September 2011.
(Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes) 鈥淭he National State and Identity Politics: State Institutionalization and 鈥楳arkers鈥 of National Identity,鈥 Geopolitics, July 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.
"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 麻豆国产 Press, 2004.
鈥淭he Good, the Bad, and the Righteous: Understanding the Bush Vision of a New NATO Partnership,鈥 Millennium Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2004. "The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda," Survival, Spring 2003.
"Rethinking the Nature of Security: America's Northern Europe Initiative," in Irina Busygina, ed.., New Frontiers of Europe: Opportunities and Challenges, MGIMO 麻豆国产 [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 麻豆国产 [Russia], 2002.
"America and the Construction of East Asian Security: Mental Architecture and Security Architecture," Taiwan Defense Affairs, Fall 2001.
"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.
"Conventional Deterrence," Comparative Strategy, Fall 2000.
(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.
(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.
"'...From the Sea' and Back Again: Naval Power in the Second American Century," Naval War College Review, Spring 1999.
republished as: 鈥溾...From the Sea鈥 and Back Again: Naval Power in the Second American Century,鈥 in Peter Dombrowski, editor, Naval Power in the Twenty-first Century (Newport: Naval War College Press, 2005 鈥 Naval War College Newport Paper number 24).
Chinese language translation and republication permission granted to Republic of China National Defense 麻豆国产, 2006.
PARTIAL LIST OF RECENT PAPERS AND BRIEFS PRESENTED
鈥淎merica鈥檚 鈥榃ar to End All Wars鈥: A Retrospective, 鈥楶earl Harbor Remembrance Day鈥 Critique,鈥 DACOR-Bacon House, Washington, DC, December 2018.
鈥淪trategic Autonomy: Stronger Europe in a Turbulent World?鈥 lead speaker, conference organized by Charles 麻豆国产/Freidrich Ebert Stiftung, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2018.
鈥溾橬ormalcy鈥: Rediscovering the Curious Brilliance of Warren G. Harding,鈥 2018 Fenwick Lecture, George Mason 麻豆国产, Fairfax, VA, April 2018.
鈥淐itizenship and Democracy,鈥 DACOR-Bacon House, Washington, DC, April 2018.
鈥淭he USA and Europe: Conflict and/or Cooperation?鈥 and 鈥淔ederalism,鈥 biennial 鈥淕eist & Gegenwart/Whitsun Dialogue Conference on Europe.USA.3.0,鈥 Governor of Styria/U.S. Embassy Vienna/Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, Leibnitz, Austria, May-June 2017.
鈥淪he Goes Not Abroad, in Search of Monsters To Destroy: Revolution and the Young American Republic,鈥 Sons of the American Revolution, Washington, DC Chapter, March 2017.
鈥淭he Search for Monsters to Destroy: Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Virtu, and the Challenge of Liberal Democracy in an Industrial Society,鈥 Cato Conference on 鈥淭he Case for Restraint in U.S. Foreign Policy,鈥 Washington, June 2016.
鈥淯.S. Foreign Policy and Its Effects on Regional Peace in South Asia,鈥 NUST International Seminar on Peace and Conflict Resolution, Islamabad, Pakistan, October 2013.
鈥淭he Intellectual Roots of American Foreign Policy鈥 (series of 5 lectures), Masaryk 麻豆国产, Czechia, October 2013.
鈥淭he Historical Roots and Constitutional Principles of the U.S. Judicial System,鈥 the Justices of the Peruvian Supreme Court, Lima, Peru, June 2012.
鈥溾橳he 鈥業solationist鈥 Imperative of 鈥楢n Empire of Liberty鈥: Republicanism, Liberalism, and the Philosophical Roots of American Foreign Policy,鈥 British International Studies Association, Edinburgh, UK, March 2010.
PARTIAL LIST OF EDITORIAL SERVICE
2006 鈥 2019 Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Security Policy.
2005 鈥 present Editorial Board Member, Security Studies.
2000 鈥 present Editorial Advisory Board Member, Defense Analysis.
1999 鈥 2005 Editorial Board Member, International Studies Quarterly.
1999 鈥 2002 Co-Editor, JCAS/Rutgers Sub-series, Japan Center for Area Studies Occasional Papers, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan .
PARTIAL LIST OF PEER REVIEW ACTIVITIES
2019 (scheduled) External Reviewer, Charles 麻豆国产, Prague, Czechia.
2013 External Evaluator, Master of International Affairs Program, Rockefeller School, 麻豆国产 at Albany, Albany, New York.
2012 Reviewer, Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program Host 麻豆国产 Competition in the Field of Public Policy Analysis/Public Administration, Institute of International Education.
2009 鈥 2018 Selection Committee Member, Brodie Prize, Old Dominion 麻豆国产, Norfolk, VA.
2008 External Evaluator, Whitehead School, Seton Hall 麻豆国产, South Orange, New Jersey.
2008 External Evaluator, International Studies Program, Adelphi 麻豆国产, Garden City, New York.
2007 External Evaluator, Department of Political Science, Georgia State 麻豆国产, Atlanta, Georgia.
2005 鈥 2007 Member, CIES-Fulbright Peer Review Committee for Baltic/Balkans.
2002 鈥 2004 Member, Fulbright Senior Scholars Program Advisory Board, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars.
2002, 1996, 1995, 1994 Grant Reviewer, National Security Education Program, U.S. Department of Defense.
2001 External Referee, Accreditation Review, Department of Political Science, 麻豆国产 of Latvia.
2000 Fellowship Reviewer, Fulbright and Humphrey Fellowship Programs, U.S. Embassy, Riga, Latvia.
PARTIAL LIST OF SERVICE TO U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT AND U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE
Foreign Service
2019, 2018, 2016
Member, Foreign Service Promotion Board, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC.
2019
Member, Interagency Foreign Service Presidential Award Selection Board, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
2018, 2016
Member, Commerce Foreign Commercial Service Promotion Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC.
Foreign Service Institute
2017 鈥 present Subcontracted Instructor, 鈥淐omposure Under Fire,鈥 A-100 Program, Foreign
Service Institute, Arlington, VA.
Office of the Historian
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).
International Visitor Leadership Program
June 2019 鈥淪ustaining Cybersecurity鈥 (Philippines)
June 2019 鈥淯.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making鈥 (Albania, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Benin, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, India, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Taiwan)
June 2019 鈥21st Century Changemakers: Empowering Youth in the Battle against Disinformation (Moldova)
May 2019 鈥淚nclusive Education in the United States鈥 (Russia)
April 2019 鈥淔inancial Sustainability in Higher Education鈥 (Georgia)
April 2019 鈥淵outh: Inspiring Leadership and Civic Participation鈥 (Kyrgyz Republic)
March 2019 鈥淓ducation and Technology in the United States鈥 (China)
March 2019 鈥淪ustainable Development 鈥 Tourism and Economics鈥 (Algeria, Armenia, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Chile, Dominica, Germany, Kyrgyz Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, West Bank)
March 2019 鈥淯.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making and International Affairs Journalism鈥 (Russia)
March 2019 鈥淔oreign Investments鈥 (Czech Republic)
March 2019 鈥淯.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making鈥 (Australia, Cambodia, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu)
January 2019 鈥淚nvestment Screening鈥 (Czech Republic)
November 2018 鈥淟abor Rights and Economic Development鈥 (Georgia)
November 2018 鈥淗uman Rights Advocacy鈥 (Bangladesh, India, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
November 2018 鈥淏altics Centennial鈥 (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
November 2018 鈥淪tate and Local Government鈥 (Bhutan)
October 2018 鈥淗igher Education and Public-Private Partnerships鈥 (Palestine)
October 2018 鈥淐apital Markets Development鈥 (Indonesia)
October 2018 鈥淧romoting Discerning Consumers of Media鈥 (Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus,
Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, UNESCO)
October 2018 鈥淐lean Energy, Emissions Reduction, and Climate Leadership鈥 (Australia)
September 2018 鈥淎SEAN: Security Challenges鈥 (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam)
September 2018 鈥淎merican Pluralism: Politics, Policy, Economics鈥 (Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom)
September 2018 鈥淐onnecting Nepali Producers with the American Market鈥 (Nepal)
September 2018 鈥淟aw of the Sea: Fisheries Management and Marine Protected Areas 鈥 Asia Pacific鈥 (China, Fiji, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Vietnam)
September 2018 鈥淟abor Reform: Key Challenges and Next Steps鈥 (Republic of Korea)
August 2018 鈥淐ultural Heritage Preservation鈥 (Nepal)
July 2018 鈥淒igital Media: Promoting and Monetizing Local Content鈥 (Kazakhstan)
July 2018 鈥淓mpowering Youth to Strengthen Communities and Prevent Violence鈥 (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan)
July 2018 鈥淣GO Administration鈥 (Iraq)
Areas of Research
- Diplomatic History
- American Foreign Policy
- Identity
- International Security