Faculty and Staff
Paul M. Kennedy, Director of ISS, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, and Distinguished Fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, is responsible for ISS programs funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation, and for ISS's pre-and post-doctoral fellowship programs. With Professor John Gaddis and Charles Hill, he co-teaches the year-long seminar on “Studies in Grand Strategy.”
He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, The War Plans of the Great Powers, The Realities Behind Diplomacy, and Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. His best-known work is The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Random House), which provoked an intense debate on its publication in 1988 and has been translated into over twenty languages. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. His monthly column on current global issues is distributed worldwide by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media Services.
A native of northern England, Professor Kennedy obtained his BA at Newcastle University and his DPhil at the University of Oxford. He is a former Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn. He holds many honorary degrees, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 2000 for services to History and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in June 2003.
His latest book, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations, was published in 2006 by Random House. He just completed a book about mid-level problem-solvers during the Second World War, entitled Engineers of Victory. He is now preparing the revised edition of The Rise and Fall of Great Powers and beginning a study of Rudyard Kipling.
John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is also Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and co-teaches ISS's “Studies in Grand Strategy” seminar. He joined the Yale faculty in 1997, and has served periodically as Acting Director of ISS, as well as Chair of the International Affairs Council at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He continues to serve on the Advisory Board of the Cold War International History Project. Professor Gaddis is the author, most recently, of The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (Oxford, 2002), Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (Harvard, 2004), a revised and updated edition of Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War (Oxford, 2005), and The Cold War: A New History (Penguin, 2005). His George F. Kennan: An American Life, will appear from Penguin in November 2011. He has won two undergraduate teaching awards at Yale, the Phi Beta Kappa William Clyde DeVane Award (2003) and the Harwood Byrnes-Richard Sewall Prize (2008). He was also awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2005 by President George W. Bush.
Charles Hill, Distinguished Fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, co-teaches ISS's “Studies in Grand Strategy” year-long seminar. A career foreign service officer, Mr. Hill was a senior adviser to George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, as well as to Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations. He teaches a host of courses about literature, statecraft, history, and politics at Yale. His book Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order was published in June 2010 by Yale University Press. His newest book, Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism, was published by Hoover Institution Press in May 2011.
Ryan M. Irwin is the associate director of International Security Studies. At Yale, he teaches classes on foreign affairs and decolonization and coordinates many of ISS's programs. His book, Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Dr. Irwin is currently writing a collection of essays about 1975 and working on a book about nationhood, statehood, and settler colonialism during the mid-twentieth century. Among other prizes, he was awarded the 2010 Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Minh A. Luong, assistant director of ISS, also serves as associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. An ICM certified crisis management consultant, he has served as an advisor to many international organizations and lectures extensively on business intelligence, industrial espionage, crisis management, and security-related issues. His most recent publications include chapters in Strategic Intelligence (Praeger, 2006) and The Handbook of Intelligence Studies (Routledge, 2007), as well as an article in the journal International Health, co-authored with colleagues at the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute.
Susan Hennigan is the administrator of International Security Studies and has been at ISS since 1996. Prior to becoming administrator, Susan was first program assistant, then business manager of United Nations Studies (formerly under the ISS umbrella), and then became ISS program coordinator. Susan presently handles ISS’s finances, including administering all grant and gift accounts, and oversees the day-to-day functioning of the ISS offices at 31 Hillhouse and 121 Whitney. Susan holds a master’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.
Kathleen Murphy is program coordinator for International Security Studies. A native of the New Haven area, she studied International Relations at the University of St. Andrews with concentrations in the Middle East, development, and social anthropology. She worked for two years in Istanbul, Turkey, before returning to New Haven in 2008.
Igor Biryukov is the administrative assistant of International Security Studies. A native of Kamchatka, Russia, he received a B.A. from Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation. He has been working at Yale since 2004 and joined ISS in November 2009.
Affiliated Faculty & Scholars
Patrick O. Cohrs is Associate Professor of History and International Relations at Yale University. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2002. Professor Cohrs has held fellowships at the Center for European Studies and the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Before coming to Yale, he was the Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and taught at Humboldt University Berlin. He is the author of The Unfinished Peace after World War I. America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919–1932 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Professor Cohrs is currently working on a history of the “Pax Americana” which re-appraises American aspirations for a “new world order” from their origins to the cold war and explores how far they contributed to the creation of a more legitimate international system. He teaches courses in modern international history, particularly on the United States and the world, the history of global, transatlantic and European international politics, and classic and new approaches to international history. He is one of the co-founders of the Yale International History programme.
Professor Cohrs is also affiliated with the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and International Security Studies at Yale.
Jean Krasno is a Distinguished Fellow at International Security Studies, Yale University where she has taught courses on the United Nations, International Organizations, and U.N. peacekeeping since 1995. She was Executive Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System from 1998 to 2003. She is also a full-time member of the faculty as a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the City College of New York where she also holds the position of Director, Multilateralism and International Organization Initiative at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. Dr. Krasno has been authorized by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to organize his papers for publication, a project housed within the Colin Powell Center and funded with the support of International Security Studies at Yale. Dr. Krasno received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 1994. Some of her publications include The United Nations: Confronting the Challenges of a Global Society, ed. (Lynne Rienner, 2004), Leveraging for Success in U.N. Peace Operations, ed. with D. Daniel and B. Hayes, (Greenwood/Praeger 2003), The United Nations and Iraq: Defanging the Viper, co-authored with J. Sutterlin (Greenwood/Praeger, 2003), and “Brazil” in Robert Chase, Emily Hill, and Paul Kennedy, The Pivotal States: A New Framework for U.S. Policy in the Developing World (St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
James Levinsohn is the Charles W. Goodyear Professor in Global Affairs at Yale. He is a specialist on international economics and economic development. Currently the Director of the University's new Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, he is also interested in industrial organization and applied econometrics. He has published numerous articles on trade policy, foreign investment practices, and the global corporation. He has also researched the distributional impact of environmental policies that affect the U.S. automobile market. He is engaged in a variety of international activities, and has lived and worked in Senegal, Botswana, and South Africa. Prior to his arrival at Yale, Levinsohn served on the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he was the associate dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 2003-2007 and the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy. He was a visiting professor at Yale's Cowles Foundation in 2008. At Yale, Levinsohn also serves as a professor of economics and management at the School of Management.
John D. Negroponte, a Brady-Johnson Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy, co-teaches the year-long “Studies in Grand Strategy” seminar. Prior to coming to Yale, Mr. Negroponte had a distinguished career in diplomacy and national security, followed by a number of years in the private sector. He held government positions abroad and in Washington between 1960 and 1997 and again from 2001 to 2008. He has been U.S. ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq. He served twice on the National Security Council staff, first as director for Vietnam in the Nixon Administration and then as deputy national security advisor under President Reagan. He also held a cabinet level position as the first director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush. While in the private sector from 1997 to 2001, Mr. Negroponte was executive vice president of the McGraw-Hill Companies, with responsibility for overseeing the company’s international activities. During those years he was also chairman of the French-American Foundation. Ambassador Negroponte also serves as chairman of the Council of the Americas/Americas Society and as a trustee of the Asia Society.
Bruce Russett is Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia, Michigan, North Carolina, Harvard, the Free University of Brussels, the Richardson Institute in London, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Tel Aviv, and Tokyo University Law School. A past president of the International Studies Association and of the Peace Science Society (International), he received the Society’s third quadrennial Founder’s Medal for “significant and distinguished life-long scientific contributions to peace science” in 2009. The most recent of his 26 books are The Once and Future Security Council (1997); Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (2001, with John Oneal; co-winner of the International Studies Association’s prize for Best Book of the Decade 2000-2009); New Directions for International Relations (2005, edited with Alex Mintz); Purpose and Policy in the Global Community (2006); International Security and Conflict (2008).
Nicholas Sambanis is Professor of Political Science. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in June 1999. He researches questions on violent civil conflict with a focus on conflict over self-determination, and the uses of U.N. to prevent or resolve civil war. His publications have appeared in several journals, including the American Political Science Review, World Politics, The Journal of Conflict Resolution and other journals and edited volumes. His book with Michael Boyle, Making War and Building Peace: The United Nations after The Cold War was published by Princeton University Press in 2006. He is now working on a book on the causes of self-determination movements and secessionist civil war.
Jonathan Schell is a visiting lecturer in International Studies, teaching two courses each spring term. He is the author of twelve books, including The Real War, The Time of Illusion, The Fate of the Earth, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People, and his recent The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (Metropolitan, 2007), written with the support of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He writes often for newspapers and magazines, which have included The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, and The Nation. He has been a frequent guest on television programs, including the “Charlie Rose Show” and “Democracy Now.” He is also a Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute in New York City.
Paul Solman, a Brady-Johnson Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy, has been business, economics, and occasional art correspondent for “The PBS NewsHour” since 1985. The founding editor of the alternative Boston weekly The Real Paper, he began his career in business journalism as a Nieman Fellow, studying at the Harvard Business school MBA program in 1976-77. His work has won numerous awards, including Emmys in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and '00s, two Peabodys and a Loeb award for reporting on China. He was also named a member of TV Guide's “Dream Team” of TV news. Paul has served on the Harvard Business School faculty, teaching media, finance, and business history in the school's Advanced Management Program. He co-authored a better-than-average-seller, Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield (Simon Schuster, 1983), which appeared in Japanese, German, and a pirated Taiwanese edition. With sociologist Morrie Schwartz, he helped create -- and wrote the introduction to -- the book Morrie: In His Own Words (Delta, 1997), which preceded Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, but did not outsell it, by several orders of magnitude. He lectures on college campuses and has written for numerous publications, including both Forbes and Mother Jones magazines; he was for years East Coast editor of the latter. A one-time cab driver, kindergarten teacher, crafts store owner and management consultant, Paul is married with children, and even grandchildren.
James S. Sutterlin, Distinguished Fellow, is a former Chair of ACUNS, the former Director of the Yale-U.N. Oral History Project at UNSY, and is Director of Research and Adjunct Professor at the Long Island University Institute for the Study of International Organizations. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service, and worked in various capacities for the U.N. Secretariat for thirteen years. Among his many writings, he co-authored with Jean Krasno, The United Nations and Iraq: Defanging the Viper (Greenwood/Praeger Press, 2003) for which the authors received a grant from the U.S. Institute of Peace. A revised edition of his The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Security (Greenwood/Praeger Press, 1995) was published in August 2003. He also worked closely with Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in drafting the latter’s memoirs, which were published by St. Martins Press in 1997 as A Pilgrimage for Peace.
Timothy Snyder is Professor of History. Among his half dozen books is Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books, 2010). In early 2012 will appear an intellectual history that he helped Tony Judt to compose, entitled Thinking the Twentieth Century (Penguin). He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on East European history.
Adam Tooze is Professor of History. He teaches modern German History, twentieth century economic history, social theory, and the philosophy of history. Before joining Yale as Professor of Modern German History in the summer of 2009, he taught for 13 years in the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge. His book Statistics and the German State 1900-1945: the Making of Modern Economic Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2001) explored the connection between the emergence of modern national economic statistics and the crisis of the German state in the first half of the twentieth century. It was awarded the H-Soz-Kult Prize for Modern History and the Leverhulme prize. His most recent book Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Penguin, 2006) won both the Longman and Wolfson prizes and was an Economist book of the year. Tooze’s current project is a history of the transformation of the global power structure that followed from Imperial Germany’s fateful decision to provoke America’s declaration of war in 1917.
Jenifer Van Vleck is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies. Her teaching and research focus on the United States and the world, transnational history, cultural history, and the history of business and technology. Her forthcoming book, No Distant Places: Aviation and the American Ascendancy (Harvard University Press), examines the history of commercial aviation in the context of the United States’ rise to global hegemony during the twentieth century. Van Vleck’s other publications include “The Logic of the Air: Aviation and the Globalism of the ‘American Century,’” New Global Studies 1.1 (Fall 2007) and “An Airline at the Crossroads of the World: Ariana Afghan Airlines, Modernization, and the Global Cold War,” History and Technology 25:1 (March 2009). She is currently developing a new book project on the role of private capital and U.S. corporations in international modernization projects. Van Vleck received her Ph.D. from Yale in 2009.
Jay Winter, Professor of History, joined the Yale faculty in 2001. From 1979 to 2001, he was Reader in Modern History and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He is an historian of the First World War, and regularly teaches a lecture course on Europe in the Age of Total War, 1914-1945. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge, 1995), and of an edited volume with Cambridge onAmerica and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (2004). He won an Emmy Award as co-producer, writer, and chief historian of the PBS television series “The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century,” first broadcast in 1996. In 2004 he published, with Antoine Prost, Penser la grande Guerre (Le Seuil), an historiographical study of the Great War. This book was published in English under the title The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies Since 1914(Cambridge, 2005). He published Remembering War: The Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century (Yale, 2006) and Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century (Yale, 2006). In 2007, Cambridge University Press published Capital Cities at War, volume 2: A Cultural History. In 2008, Armand Colin in Paris published the French edition of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning under the title Entre deuil et memoire. The book has now been published in five languages.
Fellows
Jeffery Byrne
Jeremy Friedman
Wayne Hsieh
Charlie Laderman
Chapin Rydingsward
Gagan Sood
Anand Toprani
Fuzuo Wu
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