Senior fellow at The Brookings Institution

John D. Steinbruner is a senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and holder of the Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair in International Security. His work has focused on issues of international security policy and related problems of international policies.

Steinbruner was Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program at Brookings from 1978 to 1996. Prior to joining Brookings, he was an associate professor in the School of Organization and Management and in the Department of Political Science at Yale University from 1976 to 1978. From 1973 to 1976, he served as associate professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he also was assistant director of the Program for Science and International Affairs. He has held the positions of executive director of the Research Seminar on Bureaucracy, Politics, and Policy at Harvard's Institute of Politics, and of assistant professor of political science at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Steinbruner has authored and edited a number of books and monographs, including: A New Concept Of Cooperative Security, co-authored with Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry (Brookings Occasional Papers, 1992); Decisions for Defense: Prospects for a New Order, coauthored with William Kaufmann (Brookings, 1991); The Effects of Warning on Strategic Stability with Bruce G. Blair (Brookings Occasional Papers, 1991); "Revolution in Foreign Policy" in Setting National Priorities, Henry J. Aaron, editor (Brookings, 1990); Restructuring American Foreign Policy, editor (Brookings, 1989); Strategic Arms Reduction, co-authored with Michael May and George Bing (Brookings, 1988); Managing Nuclear Operations, co-edited with Ashton B. Carter and Charles A. Zraket.(Brookings, 1987); Alliance Security: NATO and the No-First-Use Question, co-edited with Leon V. Sigal (Brookings 1983); and The Cybernetic Theory of Decision: New Dimensions of Political Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1974). His articles have appeared in Arms Control Today, The Brookings Review, Foreign Affairs, Politique Internationale, Scientific American, Soviet Economy, and other journals.

Steinbruner is currently vice-chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences, a board member of the Arms Control Association, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. In recent years he has also served on the Defense Policy Board of the Department of Defense and the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

Born in 1941 in Denver, Colorado, Steinbruner received his A.B. from Stanford University in 1963, and his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968.

(March 1998)