Henry R. Nau

Professor Nau holds a B.S. degree in Economics, Politics, and Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

He has taught at Williams College and as Visiting Professor at SAIS, Stanford, and Columbia Universities. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a recipient of research grants from the National Science Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Century Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. He currently directs the U.S.-Japan-South Korea Legislative Exchange Program, a semiannual meeting between Members of the U.S. Congress and Japanese Diet.

From January 1981 to July 1983, he served as a senior staff member of the National Security Council in the White House responsible for international economic affairs. Among other duties, he served as White House Sherpa to prepare the Annual G-7 Economic Summits. Dr. Nau also served, in 1975-77, as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in the Department of State.

He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of the Superior Honor Award from the Department of State. He has served on the Board of Editors of the journal, International Organization, and as a consultant to numerous organizations, including, among others, the National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, National Security Council, World Bank and United Nations Association. He is a former member of the U.N. Committee for Development Planning and the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Investment. He served two years as a Lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

His published works include, among others, the following books and recent articles: Perspectives on International Relations: Power. Institutions, and Idea (CQ Press, 2009, 2nd edition); At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy (Cornell, 2002); Trade and Security: US Policies at Cross- Purposes (American Enterprise Institute Press, 1995); The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990's (Oxford, 1990); and National Politics and International Technology: Nuclear Reactor Development in Western Europe (Johns Hopkins, 1974); "Conservative Internationalism: Jefferson to Polk to Truman to Reagan” Policy Review, No 150, August/September 2008 (Hoover Institution, Stanford University); pp. 3-45; "Iraq and Previous Transatlantic Crises: Divided by Threat Not Institutions or Values", in Jeffrey J. Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, and Thomas Risse, eds. The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008), 82-111.