Robert Jeffrey Art is Christian A. Herter Professor of

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, and Fellow at

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. He subscribes to the theory of neorealism, which argues that force still underlies the power structure in the modern world. He is a member of the

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, a

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specializing in U.S.

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and

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Life

Professor Art received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1964 and his Ph.D. from

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in 1968. Professor Art is a former member of the Secretary of Defense's Long Range Planning Staff (1982) and a former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis, and has consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a member of the editorial boards of the scholarly journals

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, and

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. Since 1982, he has also co-edited Cornell University's "Series in Security Studies." He has lectured at numerous American universities and research institutes and at the following U.S. military and foreign institutions: the

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, the U.S. National War College,

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, the

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, the U.S. Marine Command and Staff College, the U.S. Air Force Command and Staff College, the U.S. Air University, the

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, the U.S. Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the National War College (Beijing), the People's University (Beijing), the Institute for War Studies ( King's College,

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), the

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, the Konrad Adenauer Institute (Berlin), the

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(

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), and the

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Miscellaneous views

Art has been critical of NATO's expansion, writing in 1998 that

Awards

He has received grants from the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, the

(International Affairs Fellow), the Guggenheim Foundation, the

Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford. By 1947, after the death ...

, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Century Foundation.

Selected works

* ''The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military'' (1968) * ''A Grand Strategy for America'' (2003) – a finalist for the Arthur B. Ross Award of the Council on Foreign Relations * ''Reorganizing America's Defense'' (1985) -- contributor and co-editor, with Samuel P. Huntington and Vincent Davis) * ''U.S. Foreign Policy: the Search for a New Role'' (1993) -- contributor and co-editor with Seyom Brown * ''The United States and Coercive Diplomacy'' (2003) -- contributor and co-editor with Patrick Cronin * ''Democracy and Counterterrorism'' (2007) -- contributor and co-editor with Louise Richardson * ''America's Grand Strategy and World Politics'' (2009)

References

External links

Brandeis Faculty Guide
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