Edward Rhodes

Schar School of Policy and Government George Mason University
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 University, 1985.

MPA: Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1982.

A.B.: Harvard University, 1980 (magna cum laude).

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2010 – 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 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.

2000 - 2001 FULBRIGHT FELLOW, University of Latvia and Latvian Institute for International Affairs, Riga, Latvia.

1997 - 2003 DIRECTOR, Center for Global Security and Democracy, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University.

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 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, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University.

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.

PARTIAL LIST OF FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

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.

1995
"Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Faculty of Arts and Sciences," Rutgers College, Rutgers University.

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.

1986 - 1988
Henry Rutgers Research Fellowship, Rutgers 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.

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 University Press, 1999.

Power and MADness: The Logic of Nuclear Coercion, Columbia University 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

“The Search for Monsters to Destroy: Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Virtu, and the Challenges of Liberal

Democracy in an Industrial Society,” in A. Trevor Thrall and Benjamin H. Friedman, eds., U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case for Restraint (Routledge, 2018).

“U.S. Policy toward Latvia in the Post-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 [Latvia], 2016.

“Challenges of Globalization, Flattening, and Unbundling,” South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, June 2013.

“Why Nations Fight: Spirit, Identity, and Imagined Community,” Security Studies, April 2012.

“Identity at the Crossroads,” The American Review [Australia], September 2011.

(Richard W. Mansbach and Edward Rhodes) “The National State and Identity Politics: State Institutionalization and ‘Markers’ of National Identity,” 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 University Press, 2004.

“The Good, the Bad, and the Righteous: Understanding the Bush Vision of a New NATO Partnership,” 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 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.

"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: “’...From the Sea’ and Back Again: Naval Power in the Second American Century,” in Peter Dombrowski, editor, Naval Power in the Twenty-first Century (Newport: Naval War College Press, 2005 – Naval War College Newport Paper number 24).

Chinese language translation and republication permission granted to Republic of China National Defense University, 2006.

PARTIAL LIST OF RECENT PAPERS AND BRIEFS PRESENTED

“America’s ‘War to End All Wars’: A Retrospective, ‘Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day’ Critique,” DACOR-Bacon House, Washington, DC, December 2018.

“Strategic Autonomy: Stronger Europe in a Turbulent World?” lead speaker, conference organized by Charles University/Freidrich Ebert Stiftung, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2018.

“’Normalcy”: Rediscovering the Curious Brilliance of Warren G. Harding,” 2018 Fenwick Lecture, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, April 2018.

“Citizenship and Democracy,” DACOR-Bacon House, Washington, DC, April 2018.

“The USA and Europe: Conflict and/or Cooperation?” and “Federalism,” biennial “Geist & Gegenwart/Whitsun Dialogue Conference on Europe.USA.3.0,” Governor of Styria/U.S. Embassy Vienna/Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, Leibnitz, Austria, May-June 2017.

“She Goes Not Abroad, in Search of Monsters To Destroy: Revolution and the Young American Republic,” Sons of the American Revolution, Washington, DC Chapter, March 2017.

“The Search for Monsters to Destroy: Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Virtu, and the Challenge of Liberal Democracy in an Industrial Society,” Cato Conference on “The Case for Restraint in U.S. Foreign Policy,” Washington, June 2016.

“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.

“The Intellectual Roots of American Foreign Policy” (series of 5 lectures), Masaryk University, Czechia, October 2013.

“The Historical Roots and Constitutional Principles of the U.S. Judicial System,” the Justices of the Peruvian Supreme Court, 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.

PARTIAL LIST OF EDITORIAL SERVICE

2006 – 2019 Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Security Policy.

2005 – present Editorial Board Member, Security Studies.

2000 – present Editorial Advisory Board Member, Defense Analysis.

1999 – 2005 Editorial Board Member, International Studies Quarterly.

1999 – 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 University, Prague, Czechia.

2013 External Evaluator, Master of International Affairs Program, Rockefeller School, University at Albany, Albany, New York.

2012 Reviewer, Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program Host University Competition in the Field of Public Policy Analysis/Public Administration, Institute of International Education.

2009 – 2018 Selection Committee Member, Brodie Prize, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.

2008 External Evaluator, Whitehead School, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.

2008 External Evaluator, International Studies Program, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.

2007 External Evaluator, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.

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.

2002, 1996, 1995, 1994 Grant Reviewer, National Security Education Program, U.S. Department of Defense.

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.

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 – present Subcontracted Instructor, “Composure Under Fire,” 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 “Sustaining Cybersecurity” (Philippines)

June 2019 “U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making” (Albania, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Benin, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, India, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Taiwan)

June 2019 “21st Century Changemakers: Empowering Youth in the Battle against Disinformation (Moldova)

May 2019 “Inclusive Education in the United States” (Russia)

April 2019 “Financial Sustainability in Higher Education” (Georgia)

April 2019 “Youth: Inspiring Leadership and Civic Participation” (Kyrgyz Republic)

March 2019 “Education and Technology in the United States” (China)

March 2019 “Sustainable Development – Tourism and Economics” (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 “U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making and International Affairs Journalism” (Russia)

March 2019 “Foreign Investments” (Czech Republic)

March 2019 “U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making” (Australia, Cambodia, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu)

January 2019 “Investment Screening” (Czech Republic)

November 2018 “Labor Rights and Economic Development” (Georgia)

November 2018 “Human Rights Advocacy” (Bangladesh, India, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)

November 2018 “Baltics Centennial” (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)

November 2018 “State and Local Government” (Bhutan)

October 2018 “Higher Education and Public-Private Partnerships” (Palestine)

October 2018 “Capital Markets Development” (Indonesia)

October 2018 “Promoting Discerning Consumers of Media” (Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus,

Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, UNESCO)

October 2018 “Clean Energy, Emissions Reduction, and Climate Leadership” (Australia)

September 2018 “ASEAN: Security Challenges” (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,

Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam)

September 2018 “American Pluralism: Politics, Policy, Economics” (Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom)

September 2018 “Connecting Nepali Producers with the American Market” (Nepal)

September 2018 “Law of the Sea: Fisheries Management and Marine Protected Areas – Asia Pacific” (China, Fiji, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Vietnam)

September 2018 “Labor Reform: Key Challenges and Next Steps” (Republic of Korea)

August 2018 “Cultural Heritage Preservation” (Nepal)

July 2018 “Digital Media: Promoting and Monetizing Local Content” (Kazakhstan)

July 2018 “Empowering Youth to Strengthen Communities and Prevent Violence” (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan)

July 2018 “NGO Administration” (Iraq)