Dr. Barry Ross Posen, Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

EDUCATION

Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley (1981)

M.A., U.C. Berkeley (1976)

B.S., Occidental College (1974)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – HIGHLIGHTS

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Principal Co-director, MIT Seminar XXI Program

 Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Analyst, OSD/PAE-Europe Division

Consultant RAND Corporation

HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS

Levitan Prize in Humanities – MIT, 1991

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award, 1985 – American Political Science Association

Edward J. Furniss Jr., Book Award - Ohio State University, 1984

Fellow – Rockefeller Foundation, International Affairs, 1983-84

 Fellow – Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs

"Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks." Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1991

"The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World

Wars." Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1984

Articles

"U.S. Security Policy in a Nuclear – Armed World (Or: What If Iraq Had Had Nuclear Weapons)," Security Studies 9(3) 1-31. 1997

"Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy," International Security. 21(3): 5-53. 1997

Chapters in Books

"Competing Visions for U.S., Grand Strategy," With Andrew L. Ross, In America's

Strategic Choices, an International Security Reader." MIT Press, pp. 1-49 (originally published in International Security. 21(3): 5-531. 1997

"Can Military Intervention Limit Refugee Flows?" in "Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign

 Policy," Rainer Munz and Myron Weiner, Eds. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 273-321. 1997