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Bruce W. Jentleson

William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
Box 90312, Durham, NC 27708-0312
122 Rubenstein Hall, Box 90312, Durham, NC 27708-0312

Selected Publications


Bridging the Gap in a Changing World: New Opportunities and Challenges for Engaging Practitioners and the Public

Journal Article International Studies Perspectives · August 1, 2023 In recent years, an array of initiatives has sought to bridge widely recognized gaps separating international studies scholars from policymakers and the public. While such gaps persist, changes in society, the media, and academia have altered the context f ... Full text Cite

A Democracy Summit Is Not What the Doctor Ordered

Other Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) · December 14, 2021 Link to item Cite

The United States Needs a Democracy Summit at Home

Other Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) · January 9, 2021 Link to item Cite

American Foreign Policy and the 2020 Presidential Election

Other Strategic and Defense Studies Center · October 2020 Link to item Cite

The United States Is Not Entitled to Lead the World

Other Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) · September 25, 2020 Link to item Cite

Roundtable 11-8 on The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

Other Review by Bruce W. Jentleson, Duke University · December 17, 2019 Link to item Cite

Right-Sizing Foreign Policy

Journal Article Democracy · 2019 Link to item Cite

Protracted foreign military intervention: A structured, focused comparative analysis

Chapter · January 1, 2019 This chapter focuses on a larger study involving several case studies, covering the several stages of intervention in each case, as well as cross-case assessments on each of the stages. It explains key concepts and definitions to establish the basis for th ... Full text Cite

The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship

Book · April 24, 2018 Featured Publication The stories are fascinating: Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, and the U.S.-China opening; Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War; Dag Hammarskjöld’s exceptional effectiveness as United Nations secretary-general; Nelson Mandela and ... ... Cite

Strategic Recalibration: A Palmerstonian Middle East Strategy

Journal Article Order from Ashes: New Foundations for Security in the Middle East · 2018 Cite

'The Liberal Order Isn't Coming Back' What Next?

Journal Article Democracy: A Journal of Ideas · 2018 Cite

Bridging the Gap in a Changing World: New Opportunities and Challenges for Engaging Practitioners and the Public

Journal Article International Studies Perspectives · August 1, 2023 In recent years, an array of initiatives has sought to bridge widely recognized gaps separating international studies scholars from policymakers and the public. While such gaps persist, changes in society, the media, and academia have altered the context f ... Full text Cite

A Democracy Summit Is Not What the Doctor Ordered

Other Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) · December 14, 2021 Link to item Cite

The United States Needs a Democracy Summit at Home

Other Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) · January 9, 2021 Link to item Cite

American Foreign Policy and the 2020 Presidential Election

Other Strategic and Defense Studies Center · October 2020 Link to item Cite

The United States Is Not Entitled to Lead the World

Other Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations) · September 25, 2020 Link to item Cite

Roundtable 11-8 on The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

Other Review by Bruce W. Jentleson, Duke University · December 17, 2019 Link to item Cite

Right-Sizing Foreign Policy

Journal Article Democracy · 2019 Link to item Cite

Protracted foreign military intervention: A structured, focused comparative analysis

Chapter · January 1, 2019 This chapter focuses on a larger study involving several case studies, covering the several stages of intervention in each case, as well as cross-case assessments on each of the stages. It explains key concepts and definitions to establish the basis for th ... Full text Cite

The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship

Book · April 24, 2018 Featured Publication The stories are fascinating: Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, and the U.S.-China opening; Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War; Dag Hammarskjöld’s exceptional effectiveness as United Nations secretary-general; Nelson Mandela and ... ... Cite

Strategic Recalibration: A Palmerstonian Middle East Strategy

Journal Article Order from Ashes: New Foundations for Security in the Middle East · 2018 Cite

'The Liberal Order Isn't Coming Back' What Next?

Journal Article Democracy: A Journal of Ideas · 2018 Cite

Public Opinion and Donald Trump's Foreign Policy: Initial Assessment

Journal Article H-Diplo/International Securities Study Forum · September 27, 2017 Cite

The Bridging the Gap Initiative and Programs

Journal Article PS - Political Science and Politics · August 4, 2015 Full text Cite

Preface

Other Power in a Complex Global System · January 1, 2014 Cite

Power in a complex global system

Book · January 1, 2014 © 2014 Louis W. Pauly and Bruce W. Jentleson, selection and editorial matter. Can twenty-first century global challenges be met through the limited adaptation of existing political institutions and prevailing systemic norms, or is a more fundamental recons ... Cite

American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century (Fifth Edition)

Book · July 15, 2013 A balanced and contemporary introduction to U.S. foreign policy, with a built-in reader. ... Cite

Accepting Limits: How to Adapt to a Copernican World

Journal Article Democracy: A Journal of Ideas · December 2012 Cite

Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul R. Pillar

Journal Article Political Science Quarterly · September 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Global Governance in a Copernican World

Journal Article Global Governance · March 2012 Cite

The Obama Administration and R2P: Progress, Problems and Prospects

Journal Article Global Responsibility to Protect · 2012 Cite

The Remaking of the Middle East

Journal Article Duke Magazine · July 2011 Cite

Beware the Duck Test

Journal Article Washington Quarterly · July 2011 Cite

Metternich of Arabia

Journal Article National Interest Online · June 2011 Link to item Cite

Bridging the Beltway-Ivory Tower Gap

Journal Article International Studies Review · March 2011 Cite

The Atlantic Alliance in a Post-America World

Journal Article Journal of Trans-Atlantic Studies · March 2009 Cite

America's Hard Sell

Journal Article Foreign Policy · 2008 Cite

Military force against terrorism: Questions of legitimacy, dilemmas of efficacy

Journal Article · December 1, 2007 It is true that terrorism goes way back in history, "as far back as does human conflict itself," as Caleb Carr has written.1 It also is true that much of the world had been suffering from terrorism for a long time before September 11.2 Still, the issue did ... Cite

America's Global Role After Bush

Journal Article Survival · October 2007 Cite

"A Responsibility to Protect: The Defining Challenge for Global Community"

Journal Article Harvard International Review · 2006 Cite

Tough Love Multilateralism

Journal Article The Washington Quarterly · December 2003 Cite

The need for praxis: Bringing policy relevance back in

Journal Article International Security · March 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Perspectives on American Foreign Policy Readings and Cases

Book · 2000 The readings delve deeper into theoretical, historical and policy debates discussed in American Foreign Policy: Dynamics of Choice, and icons in the textbook margins link the broader points to related articles and case studies in ... ... Cite

Still Pretty Prudent

Journal Article Journal of Conflict Resolution · August 1998 Extending and further testing the theory advanced by Bruce Jentleson with post-cold war data, variations in U.S. public support for the use of military force are shown to be best explained by the principal policy objective for which military force is being ... Cite

Still pretty prudent: Post-cold war American public opinion on the use of military force

Journal Article Journal of Conflict Resolution · January 1, 1998 Extending and further testing the theory advanced by Bruce Jentleson with post-cold war data, variations in U.S. public support for the use of military force are shown to be best explained by the principal policy objective for which military force is being ... Full text Cite

EAST-WEST-TRADE AND THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE - BALDWIN,DA, MILNER,HV

Journal Article POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY · December 1, 1992 Link to item Cite

The Philippines: U.S. policy during the Marcos years, 1956–1986

Journal Article Government Publications Review · January 1992 Full text Cite

Reflections on Praxis and Nexus

Journal Article PS: Political Science & Politics · January 1, 1990 Full text Cite

American commitments in the Third World: theory vs. practice

Journal Article International Organization · September 1987 Amidst their other differences, the defeats suffered by the United States in Vietnam, Iran, and Lebanon have a common explanation. In all three cases American strategy was based on “global commitments theory.” Interests were to be defended and global credi ... Cite

American commitments in the Third World: Theory vs. practice

Journal Article International organization · January 1, 1987 Full text Cite

THE POLITICAL BASIS FOR TRADE IN UNITED-STATES-SOVIET RELATIONS

Journal Article MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES · 1986 Full text Cite

Strategic Choices and Dangerous Traps

Journal Article PS: Political Science & Politics · January 1, 1986 Full text Cite

From consensus to conflict: the domestic political economy of East-West energy trade policy

Journal Article International Organization · September 1984 Changes in the domestic politics of East-West energy trade policy indicate a more general transformation of the domestic politics of American foreign policy. In the postwar period the basic, consensual pattern of congressional bipartisanship, executivebran ... Cite

Trump's Global Foreign Policy Is Bad for Asia

Journal Article Global Asia: A journal of the East Asia Foundation Cite

The Trump World in Context: The United States and Northeast Asian Strategic Order

Journal Article Global Asia: A journal of the East Asia Foundation Cite