James M. Lindsay (born November 29, 1959,

Winchester, Massachusetts Winchester is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, located 8.2 miles (13.2 km) north of downtown Boston as part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. It is also one of the List of Massachusetts locations by per capita income, wealt ...

), is the Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the

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(CFR) and a leading authority on

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. He is also the award-winning coauthor of ''America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy'' and former Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs at the

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. In 2008, he was the principal author of a

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funded $7.6 million Minerva Research Initiative grant entitled "Climate Change, State Stability, and Political Risk in Africa." He is the author of a CFR blog on American foreign policy, The Water's Edge.

Academic work

Lindsay holds an A.B. in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

and

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

(highest distinction, highest honors) from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and an

M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

, M. Phil., and

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from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than fifteen books and fifty journal articles and book chapters on various aspects of American foreign policy and

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such as ...

. His latest book, ''The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership,'' co-authored with

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and released in October 2018. His previous book with Ivo H. Daalder, ''America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy'', was awarded the 2003

Lionel Gelber Award The Lionel Gelber Prize is a literary award for English non-fiction books on foreign policy. Founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber, the prize awards "the world’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to de ...

, named a finalist for the Arthur S. Ross Book Award, and selected as a top book of 2003 by ''

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''. With Henry J. Aaron and Pietro S. Nivola, he co-edited ''Agenda for the Nation'', which ''Choice'' Magazine named “Outstanding Academic Book of 2004.” In 2001, with

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, he wrote ''Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense''. He is the author of ''Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy'', published in 1994; and ''Congress and Nuclear Weapons'', published in 1991. He has also contributed articles to the op-ed pages of many major newspapers, including the

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, the

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, and the

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Research and government positions

From 2006 to 2009, Lindsay was the inaugural director of The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at

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as well as the first Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs at the

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. From 2003 to 2006, he was Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1999 to 2003, he served as Deputy Director and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the

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. From 1987 to 1999, he was a professor of

at the

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, where he was the recipient of the Collegiate Teaching Award and of the James N. Murray Faculty Teaching Award. In 1996-1997, he was Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs on the staff of the

. He has also served as a consultant to the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission) and as a staff expert for the United States Institute of Peace’s Congress-mandated Task Force on the United Nations. He has been a fellow at the Center for International Affairs and the Center for Science and International Affairs, both at

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. He was a recipient of the

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Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs in 1990 and an International Affairs Fellowship from the

in 1995.

Professional boards, committees, and organizations

, 2000–Present * Editorial Board, ''International Studies Quarterly'', 1999-2002 * Executive Committee, Midwest Consortium for International Security, 1992-1999 * Editorial Board, ''PS: Political Science & Politics'', 1993-1996 * Editorial Board, ''International Studies Perspectives'', 2004–Present

Publications

Books

*
The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership
'' with Ivo H. Daalder (2018)

with Henry J. Aaron and Pietro S. Nivola (2004)

with Ivo H. Daalder (2003)

with Michael E. O'Hanlon (2001)

(1994)
''Congress and Nuclear Weapons''
(1991)
''Congress Resurgent: Foreign and Defense Policy on Capitol Hill''
(ed. With Randall B. Ripley)
''U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War''
(ed. With Randall B. Ripley)
''Dynamics of Democracy''
4ed. (with Peverill Squire, Cary Covington, and Eric R.A.N. Smith)

Articles

*
The Committee to Save the World Order
" with Ivo H. Daalder, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2018
"After Iran Gets the Bomb"

Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and ...

, March/April 2010
"Congress and Foreign Policy: Why the Hill Matters."
https://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=polisciequar (1994) Political Science Quarterly 107 (Winter):607-628]

References

External links

Expert page at Council on Foreign Relations
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindsay, James M. American political scientists International relations scholars American civil servants Political science writers Political science educators University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni Yale University alumni University of Iowa faculty Harvard University staff 1959 births Living people United States National Security Council staffers People from Winchester, Massachusetts