Perspectives on International Relations Power, Institutions, and Ideas Seventh Edition by Henry R. Nau

Perspectives on Global Relations Energy, Institutions, and Ideas Seventh Edition by Henry R. Nau

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   978-1544374390Henry R. Nau has merged a remarkable career in the academic world with two opportunities to work at the highest levels of the U.S. government. He applies this knowledge in this textbook, blending theory and application with exceptional clarity to comprehend historical and contemporary issues in global relations.

   Nau currently holds the position of professor of political science and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He previously taught at Williams College and had visiting positions at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Stanford University, and Columbia University. Between 1977 and 1981, Nau was part of the Editorial Board of the journal International Organization.He has received research grants from various institutions, including the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Century Foundation, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, the Hoover Institution, the Rumsfeld Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

   From 1975 to 1977, Nau served as special assistant to the undersecretary for economic affairs, Charles Robinson, in the U.S. Department of State. During this time, he collaborated in organizing a significant conference on science, technology, and foreign policy within the office of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In recognition of his efforts, he was honored with the State Department’s Superior Honor Award.

   Between 1981 and 1983, Nau worked as a senior staff member of the National Security Council responsible for international economic affairs. He acted as President Reagan’s White House aide, or Sherpa, for the annual G7 economic summits in Ottawa (1981), Versailles (1982), and Williamsburg (1983), as well as for the special summit with developing countries in Cancun (1982). These summits played a pivotal role in revitalizing the world economy from the stagnation and resource shortages of the 1970s to three decades of over three percent annual growth, promoting the so-called Washington Consensus (originating in the Williamsburg Summit Communique) advocating lower inflation, freer markets, and open trade. Nau detailed these formative years in The Myth of America’s Decline (see below).

   Beyond his government roles, Nau continued his public service. From 1984 to 1990, he served on the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on Foreign Investment and as the U.S. representative on the UN Committee for Development Planning. Between 1989 and 2016, Nau directed the U.S.–Japan–South Korea Legislative Exchange Program, organizing semiannual meetings between members of the U.S. Congress, the Japanese Diet, and the South Korean National Assembly. In 2016, the Japanese government honored him with the Order of the Rising Sun, Neck Ribbon with Gold Rays, the highest accolade for academic leaders, acknowledging his work on this Exchange. Nau also served as a lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 1963 to 1965.

   Nau’s publications include titles such as Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan (Princeton University Press, 2013, and paperback with new preface, 2015); At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2002); Trade and Security: U.S. Policies at Cross-Purposes (American Enterprise Institute, 1995); The Myth of America’s Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s (Oxford University Press, 1990); and National Politics and Foreign Technology: Peaceful Nuclear Reactor Development in Western Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974). His most recent edited book is Worldviews of Aspiring Powers: Domestic Foreign Policy Debates in China, India, Iran, Japan, and Russia, coedited with Deepa M. Ollapally (Oxford University Press, 2012).

   Recent articles and chapters in edited books authored by Nau include “Democratic Globalism,” National Interest, November/December 2018; “Trump’s Conservative Internationalism,” National Review, August 2017; “America’s Global Nationalism,” American Interest, January/February 2017; “The Difference Reagan Made,” Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2016–2017; “How Restraint Leads to Conflict: The Real Danger of the Iran Deal,” Commentary (July/August, 2015); “Ideas Have Consequences: The Cold War and Today,” International Politics 48 (July/September 2011): 460–81; “No Alternative to ‘Isms,'” International Studies Quarterly 55, no. 2 (June 2011): 487–91; “The ‘Great Boom’: The Economic Legacy of Ronald Reagan,” in Reagan’s Legacy in a Transformed World, edited by Jeffrey L. Chidester and Paul Kengor (Harvard University Press, 2015); “Scholarship and Policy-Making: Who Speaks Truth to Whom?,” in The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal (Oxford University Press, 2008); and “Iraq and Previous Transatlantic Crises: Divided by Risk, Not Institutions or Values,” in The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order, edited by Jeffrey Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, and Thomas Risse (Cornell University Press, 2008).