Bruce Russett Yale University, USA

BRUCE RUSSETT, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Yale, received his B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College in 1956, a Diploma in Economics from King’s College, Cambridge in 1957, and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1961.  He has held visiting appointments at Columbia, Michigan, North Carolina, Harvard, the Free University of Brussels, the Richardson Institute in London, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Tel Aviv, and the Tokyo University Law School.  He is Director of United Nations Studies at Yale, and has edited The Journal of Conflict Resolution since 1973.  A past president of the International Studies Association and of the Peace Science Society (International), he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2002 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University.  He was principal advisor to the U.S. Catholic Conference in writing their 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace, and with Paul Kennedy staffed the Ford Foundation’s 1995 report, The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century.  His grants and fellowships include eleven from the National Science Foundation and multiple awards from each of the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, the MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the World Society Foundation of Switzerland.  He has published 225 book chapters and journal articles, and 25 books including The Once and Future Security Council (1997), Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (2001, with John Oneal), New Directions for International Relations (2005, edited with Alex Mintz), and Purpose and Policy in the Global Community (May 2006).

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