Faculty + Scholars

Robert

Art

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Christian A Herter Professor of International Relations Emeritus, Brandeis University
Director Emeritus, Seminar XXI
Senior Fellow, Security Studies Program

art@brandeis.edu

Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 109

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Expertise:

International relations, US foreign policy, national security policy

Extended Details

Biography

Robert Art, the former director of MIT's Seminar XXI Program, is the Christian A Herter Professor of International Relations, Emeritus at Brandeis University and a senior fellow in the Security Studies Program at MIT's Center for International Studies. He has served as a consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, and is currently a faculty associate of the National Intelligence Council. Professor Art's books include The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military; Reorganizing America's Defense, with Samuel P Huntington and Vincent Davis, eds.; US Foreign Policy: The Search for a New Role with Seyom Brown, eds.; The United States and Coercive Diplomacy, with Patrick Cronin, eds.; Democracy and Counterterrorism, with Louise Richardson, eds; A Grand Strategy for America; and America’s Grand Strategy and World Politics.

Research

Robert Art is Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University, where he taught international relations and specialized in national security affairs and American foreign policy. He directed MIT’s Seminar XXI Program from academic year 2000-2001 through academic year 2019-2020. Professor Art earned a BA from Columbia College in 1964 and a PhD from Harvard University in 1968. His published work centers on American foreign policy and national security affairs.

Publications

and Greenhill, Kelly M. “Coercion: An Analytical Overview," chapter in Kelly M. Greehill and Peter Krause (eds.) Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics. Oxford University Press, 2017.

“Creating a Disaster: NATO's Open Door Policy,” Political Science Quarterly. Ed. Robert Jervis. Columbia University Press, 2016.

“U.S. National Security Perspectives on Asia: Interests and Challenges,” Ninth Annual Berlin Conference on Asian Security, Berlin. SWP (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), online, 14-16 June 2015.

“Roundtable Review of Kelly Greenhill, Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy,” H-Diplo. April 2013.

“Selective Engagement in the Era of Austerity,” America's Path: Grand Strategy for the Next Administration. Ed. Richard Fontaine and Kristin M. Lord. Washington DC: Center for A New American Security, 2012.

“The United States, the Rise of China, and US-Indian Relations,” chapter in Ali Ahmed, Jagannath Panda, and Prashant Singh (eds.) Towards a New Asian Order. Shipra Publications, 2012. 110-128.

Books