Blackwill, Robert D.

views updated

BLACKWILL, Robert D.

BLACKWILL, Robert D. American, b. 1939. Genres: International relations/Current affairs, Politics/Government. Career: Career diplomat, 1967-. National Security Council, former director of West European Affairs; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs; served as United States Ambassador and Chief Negotiator at negotiations with Warsaw Pact on conventional forces in Europe. Served as Special Assistant to President George Bush for European and Soviet Affairs, 1989-90. Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive Programs for United States and Russian General Officers and for members of the Russian State Duma, former associate dean, Executive Program for Senior Chinese Military Officers, and Initiative on United States-Chinese Relations, currently faculty chairman, currently Belfer Lecturer in International Security; Council on Foreign Relations, NYC, currently adjunct senior fellow. Former Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, Africa. Publications: (ed. with F.S. Larrabee) Conventional Arms Control and EastWest Security, 1989; (ed. with G.T. Allison and A. Carnesale) A Primer for the Nuclear Age, 1990; (with A. Carnesale) New Nuclear Nations, 1993; (ed. with S. Karaganov) Damage Limitation or Crisis? Russia and the Outside World, 1994; (with R. Braithwaite and A. Tanaka) Engaging Russia: A Report to the Trilateral Commission, 1995; (with M. Sturmer) Allies Divided: Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East, 1997; The Future of Transatlantic Relations, 1999. Contributor of articles on European security and East-West relations to periodicals. Address: Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]