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Senior Sassu Research Fellow: Dr. Rodney Jones

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Dr. Rodney Jones is a Senior Sassu Research Fellow. He is President of Policy Architects International, a consulting firm in Virginia that covers strategic, international security and Asian development issues. His most recent work has been in support of the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), on the transformation of U.S. defense strategy, nuclear proliferation issues, and the war on terrorism. He served earlier as Senior Advisor to the START II project of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Moscow Center, and also as Senior Advisor and Counselor to the Keystone Center’s National Commission on Nuclear Threat. His topics of concentration include national and theater missile defense, strategic arms negotiation, and NATO enlargement and the evolution of Russia’s national security posture. He has long-standing exposure to regional and nuclear security issues of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia.

Jones is the author of two recent reports: Minimum Nuclear Deterrence Postures in South Asia - An Overview (Final Report for Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Advanced Systems and Concepts Office), October 2001; and Taking National Missile Defense to Sea: A Critique of Sea-based and Boost-phase Proposals (sponsored by Council for a Livable World Education Fund, October 2000). His most recent books are: The U.S. War on Terrorism: Religious Radicalism and Nuclear Confrontation in South Asia, Leicester: University of Leicester, Centre for the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, and Institute for the Study of Indo-Pakistan Relations, May, 2003; and Tracking Nuclear Proliferation: A Guide in Maps and Charts, 1998 (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Brookings Institution Press, 1998). Recent articles on nuclear security issues in South Asia include “Debating New Delhi’s Nuclear Decision” in International Security, Spring, 2000, pp. 181-185; and “Pakistan’s Nuclear Posture: Quest for Assured Nuclear Deterrence – A Conjecture,” Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, January 2000.

Career Highlights

  • Consultant, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Advanced Systems and Concepts Office (DTRA/ASCO), 2001-2002.
  • Senior Advisor, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, for START II Project, 1995-1998; primary author of the Carnegie Endowment book, Tracking Nuclear Proliferation: A Guide in Maps and Charts, 1998 (Brookings Institution Press), 1998.
  • Senior Advisor and Counselor, The Keystone Center, National Commission on the Nuclear Threat, 1996-1999.
  • Service from 1990-94 in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) and on the U.S. START delegation in Geneva, producing the START Treaty and post-Soviet U.S. policies toward Russia, Ukraine and other FSU states (START II, cooperative threat reduction, and “safety, security and dismantlement” of nuclear weapons). Also ACDA Consultant, 1986-89 on INF.
  • Executive Director of the Washington Council on Nonproliferation, 1986-90.
  • Senior Fellow and Director of Nuclear Policy Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) of Georgetown University, from 1980-85, with numerous policy reports and publications on strategic arms, nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and South Asia, regional security in the Gulf, arms transfers, and energy security.
  • Associate Professor of International Politics and Associate of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, 1978-80.
  • Service in U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, on Persian Gulf security, US-Republic of Korea security relations, and nuclear nonproliferation issues, 1977-78 (concurrently an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations).

Education

Columbia University: Ph.D (with distinction) in Political Science 1970; and M.A. in International Affairs 1965. Juniata College: B.A. (magna cum laude), 1964. Graduate and post-doctoral work also at University of Chicago (Urdu language) and University of Michigan (statistics). Recipient of Danforth Graduate Fellowship, 1964-69; American Institute of Indian Studies fellowships in 1967 and 1975 (for field research in India); Fulbright-Hayes Faculty Fellowship, 1974 (for field research in Pakistan).

Books and Monographs

  • The U.S. War on Terrorism: Religious Radicalism and Nuclear Confrontation in South Asia, Leicester: University of Leicester, Centre for the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, and Institute for the Study of Indo-Pakistan Relations, Academic Papers No. 8, May, 2003. (monograph)
  • The Full Costs of Ballistic Missile Defense, ed., Richard F. Kaufman (primary author, Rodney W. Jones), Washington, D.C.: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, January, 2003. (Report, monograph).
  • Minimum Nuclear Deterrence Postures in South Asia - An Overview, Final Report, for DTRA/ASCO, October 2001, published on DTRA/ASCO website (monograph): <http://www.dtra.mil/about/organization/south_asia.pdf >.
  • Taking National Missile Defense to Sea: A Critique of Sea-Based and Boost-Phase Proposals (Washington, DC: Policy Architects International and Council for a Livable World, October 2000, pp. 48.) (monograph)
  • Tracking Nuclear Proliferation: A Guide in Maps and Charts, 1998, co-auth. with Mark McDonough (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/Brookings Institution Press, 1998).
  • Emerging Powers: Defense and Security in the Third World, co-ed. with Steven A. Hildreth (New York: Praeger, 1986).
  • The Nuclear Suppliers and Nonproliferation: International Policy Choices, co-ed. with C. Merlini, J. Pilat, W. Potter (Lexington, MA.: Lexington Books, 1985).
  • Modern Weapons and Third World Powers, co-authored with Steven A. Hildreth (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1984).
  • Small Nuclear Forces and U.S. Security Policy: Threats and Potential Conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia, ed. (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1984).
  • Small Nuclear Forces (New York: Praeger, CSIS Washington Papers No. 103, 1984).
  • Nuclear Proliferation: Islam, the Bomb, and South Asia (Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage Publications, CSIS Washington Papers No. 82, 1981).
  • Urban Politics in India: Area, Power and Policy (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974), 420 pages. (Nominated for Wattamull Prize.)

Articles and Chapters in Books

  • "Conventional Military Asymmetry and Regional Stability Among Emerging Nuclear States: India and Pakistan," Fourth Nuclear Stability Roundtable: Conference on Strategic Stability and Global Change, March 12-13, 2002 March 12-13, 2002, available at:<http://www.policyarchitects.org/pdf/NucStability_IndiaPakistan1.pdf>.
  • "Force Modernization Trends - India and Pakistan," Conventional Arms Modernization in Asia and the Pacific, Honolulu: Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS publication forthcoming). The conference paper may be found at: <http://www.policyarchitects.org/pdf/ForceModern_IndiaPakistan2.pdf>.
  • "South Asia Under the Nuclear Shadow: Is Nuclear Deterrence Feasible?" The Friday Times (Lahore), Feb. 22-28, 2002. Available at: <http://www.policyarchitects.org/proliferation.html>
  • "China's Role in Nuclear and Missile Proliferation," Testimony before the US-China Commission, Hearing of Panel of Experts, Oct. 12, 2001. <http://www.uscc.gov/hr10_12.htm> and <http://www.uscc.gov/tesjon.htm>.
  • “Debating New Delhi’s Nuclear Decision,” International Security, Vol. 24, No. 4, Spring 2000, pp. 181-187.
  • “Pakistan’s Nuclear Posture: Quest for Assured Nuclear Deterrence – A Conjecture,” Spotlight on Regional Affairs, Islamabad: Institute of Regional Studies, Vol XIX, No. 1, January 2000, 40 pages; reprinted in Regional Studies (Islamabad), Vol. XVIII, Spring 2000, pp. 3-39.
  • “Pakistan’s Nuclear Posture: Arms Race Instabilities in South Asia,” Asian Affairs: An American Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 67-87.
  • “Principal Purchasers and Recipient Regions -- South Asia,” in Andrew Pierre, ed., Cascade of Arms: Managing Conventional Weapons Proliferation (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, World Peace Foundation, 1997), pp. 305-339.
  • “After Helsinki, the hard work,” with Nikolai N. Sokov, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 53, No. 4, July/August, 1997, pp. 26-30.
  • START II, Missile Non-Proliferation, and Missile Defense -- Proceedings, Seminar of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., February 14, 1996.
  • “Outlook for START II Ratification in the United States,” International Affairs (Moscow), Vol. 8, October 1995, pp. 18-23.
  • “Moscow’s START II Ratification: Problems and Prospects,” with Yuri K. Nazarkin, Arms Control Today, September 1995, pp. 8-14.
  • “U.S. Implementation of START: Responding to New Challenges,” UNIDIR Newsletter, No. 22 and 23, June/September 1993, pp. 4-9.
  • “Old Quarrels and New Realities: Security in Southern Asia after the Cold War, “ The Washington Quarterly, Winter 1992, pp. 105-128; republished in Brad Roberts, ed., Foreign Policy after the Cold War (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), pp. 109-132.
  • “India: Groping for a Supplier Policy,” in William C. Potter, ed., International Nuclear Trade and Non-Proliferation: The Challenge of the Emerging Suppliers (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1990), chp. 8, pp. 153-180.
  • “Pakistan: Emerging Nuclear Supplier Issues,” in Potter, ed., International Nuclear Trade,. op. cit., 1990, chp. 11, pp. 221-246.
  • “China and the Non-Proliferation Regime: Renegade or Communicant?” in China and Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Two Perspectives, Programme for Promoting Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Occasional Paper Three, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Southampton, U.K., July 1989, pp. 18-36.
  • “Pakistan and the United States: Partners After Afghanistan,” The Washington Quarterly, Summer 1989, pp. 65-87.
  • “Preventing a Nuclear Sarajevo: Proliferation in the Middle East and South Asia,” with Harald Müller, Arms Control Today, Vol. 19, No. 1, January/February, 1989, pp. 15-22.
  • “Beyond Afghanistan: U.S.-Pakistan Security Relations,” in Leo E. Rose and Kamal Matinuddin, ed., Beyond Afghanistan: Emerging U.S.-Pakistan Relations, University of California (Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, Research Papers and Policy Studies, No. 32, 1989), chp. 1, pp. 31-59.
  • “U.S. Security Interests in South Asia: The Pakistan Aid Package” (Prepared Statement), Foreign Assistance Legislation for Fiscal Years 1988?89 (Part 5), Hearings and Markup before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Feb. 25; March 3-18, 1987, pp. 352-365.
  • “Nuclear Non-Proliferation Issues: The South Asian Context,” Strategic Studies (Islamabad), Vol.X, No.4/Vol.XI, No.1, Summer & Autumn 1987, pp. 664 ff.
  • “International Technology Transfer Issues,” in S.Nozette and R.L. Kuhn, eds., Commercializing Strategic Defense Technologies, (New York: Praeger, 1987), pp. 197-210.
  • “Pakistan’s Nuclear Options,” in Hafeez Malik, ed., Soviet?American Relations with Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987), pp. 199-216.
  • “Nuclear Technology Transfers to Asia: The View from India and Pakistan,” Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Winter 1986, Vol. V. No. 4, pp. 22-34.
  • “India’s Nuclear Strategy,” NBC Defense and Technology International, Vol.1, No.2, May, 1986, pp. 66-72.
  • “India: Defense Policy, Modern Weapons and Regional Power,” in my Emerging Powers: Defense and Security in the Third World (New York: Praeger, 1986), pp. 172-222.
  • “The Strategic Consequences of Proliferation in South Asia: Outlook from the United States,” in Neil Joeck, ed., Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia (London: Frank Cass, 1986), pp. 28-39; (first published in a special issue of The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 8, No.4, Dec. 1985, pp. 28-39.)
  • “India,” in Jozef Goldblat, ed., Non-Proliferation: The Why and Wherefore (London: Taylor and Francis; for SIPRI) 1985, chp. 5B, pp. 100-116.
  • “Nonproliferation and the Problem Countries,” in Joseph Pilat, ed., The Nonproliferation Predicament (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1985); first published in Society, Sept.-Oct., 1983, pp. 100-116.
  • “SDI, the Soviet Challenge and the Geneva Talks,” CSIS Contingency Papers, July 1985, 10 pages.
  • “The Military and Security in Pakistan,” in Craig Baxter, ed., Zia’s Pakistan: Politics and Stability in a Frontline State, ed., Craig Baxter (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press) 1985, pp. 63-91; originally a Report to the Department of State by the Middle East Institute, Feb. 1985.
  • “Star Wars: Down to Earth, or Gleam in the Sky?” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4, Fall 1984, pp. 104-111.
  • “Middle East and Southwest Asia,” with Thomas McNaugher, in Strategic Requirements for the Army to the Year 2000, eds., R.H. Kupperman and W.J. Taylor, Jr. (Lexington, MA.: Lexington Books, 1984), chp. 16, pp. 371-428.
  • “Regional Conflict and Strategic Challenge in Southwest Asia,” in The Future of Conflict in the 1980s, eds., W.J. Taylor and S.A. Maaranen (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983), pp. 261-292.
  • “Small Nuclear Forces,” Arms Control Today, June 1984, pp. 2-3.
  • “Strategic Responses to Nuclear Proliferation,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3, Summer 1983, pp. 89-98.
  • “Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Future Conflict,” in The Future of Conflict in the 1980s (Lexington, MA.: Lexington Books, 1982), pp. 81-108.
  • “Atomic Diplomacy in Developing Countries,” in John J. Stremlau, ed., The Foreign Policy Priorities of Developing Countries (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982), pp. 67-98; reprinted from Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1980, pp. 89-118.
  • “Mending Relations with Pakistan,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1981, pp. 17-29.
  • “Ballistic Missile Submarines and Arms Control in the Indian Ocean,” Asian Survey, Vol. XX, No. 3, March 1980, pp. 269-279.
  • “India’s Foreign Policy – Continuity and Change,” in Mahesh J. Mehta, ed., Upadhyaya’s Integral Humanism: The Concept and Applications, Edison, N.J.: Deendayal Upadhyaya Committee of America, 1980, pp. 67-81.

 

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