Hans
Binnendijk, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research Theodore Roosevelt Chair National Defense University Director Center for Technology and National Security Policy
Hans Binnendijk is currently the Vice President for Research of
the National Defense University and Theodore Roosevelt Chair in
National Security Policy. He is also the Founding Director of the
Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National
Defense University. He previously served on the National Security
Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director
for Defense Policy and Arms Control (1999-2001). From 1994 to 1999,
Dr. Binnendijk was Director of the Institute for National Strategic
Studies at the National Defense University. Prior to that, he was
Principal Deputy Director and Acting Director of the State Department's
Policy Planning Staff (1993-1994). He also served as Deputy Staff
Director and Legislative Director of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee (1980-1985). He has received numerous awards for his government
service, including two Distinguished Public Service Awards and a
Superior Service Award.
In academia, Dr. Binnendijk was Director of the Institute for the
Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, where he was also the
Marshall B. Coyne Research Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School
of Foreign Service (1991-1993). He was Deputy Director and Director
of Studies at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies
and Editor of Survival from 1988-1991. He is author or
co-author of more than 100 articles, editorials and reports. His
most recent book is Seeing the Elephant: The U.S. Role in Global
Security (Potomac Books: 2006).
Dr. Binnendijk serves on the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, on the Studies Committee of the Council
on Foreign Relations, and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Humanity
in Action. He previously served on the US Committee of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies and the CSIS International Research
Council. He has received the Cross of the Order of Merit from the
Federal Republic of Germany.
Dr. Binnendijk is a 1968 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
He received his M.A.L.D. and his Ph.D. in international relations
from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Dr. Binnendijk's Publications
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