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Mitchell B. Reiss

Vice Provost for International Affairs;
Professor of Law and Professor of Government

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Degrees

J.D., Columbia
D.Phil., Oxford University
M.A.L.D., Fletcher
B.A., Williams

Representative Professional Activities & Achievements

Joined the faculty in 1999. Practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. Former Assistant Director and Senior Policy Advisor of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization. Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Former White House Fellow serving as special assistant to the National Security Council. Dean Reiss was on a leave of absence from the Law School and the College from August 2003 to February 2005. He served as Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State from July 2003 to February 2005. Appointed in January 2004 by President George W. Bush as Special Envoy to the Northern Ireland Peace Process with the rank of Ambassador, a position he currently holds.

Author of Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities and Without the Bomb: The Politics of Nuclear Non-proliferation. Co-editor and author of The Nuclear Tipping Point and Nuclear Proliferation after the Cold War. Also has published numerous articles in leading journals and newspapers in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Served as Consultant for the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Office of the General Counsel, U.S. State Department; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Congressional Research Service; Council on Foreign Relations; and the Ford Foundation. Senior Associate for the Cambridge Institute for Applied Research and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.


Professor Reiss's publications

Books

  • Co-editor, The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices (Brookings Inst. Press 2004) (with Kurt M. Campbell & Robert J. Einhorn).
  • Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities (Woodrow Wilson Center Press/The Johns Hopkins U. Press 1995)
  • Co-editor, Nuclear Proliferation after the Cold War, (Johns Hopkins U. Press 1994) (with Robert S. Litwak).
  • Without the Bomb: The Politics of Nuclear Nonproliferation (Columbia U. Press 1988) (paperback version published in 1989).

Articles

  • A Nuclear-armed North Korea: Accepting the "Unacceptable"?, Survival, Winter 2006-2007, at 97.
  • Co-author, Lessons of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 27 Am. Foreign Pol'y Interests 469 (2005) (with Eric Green).
  • Co-author, Red Handed: The Truth About North Korea's Weapons Program, Foreign Affairs, Mar./Apr. 2005, at 142 (with Robert L. Gallucci).
  • Time to End North-east Asia's Nuclear Impasse, Fin. Times, July 27, 2005, at 13, reprinted in Nautilus Inst. Pol'y Forum Online, Aug. 2, 2005, http://www.nautilus.org/fora/index.html.
  • Avoiding Déjà Vu All Over Again: Lessons from US-DPRK Engagement, in North Korea's Engagement: Perspectives, Outlook and Implications, Conference Report (2001), reprinted in Am. Asian Rev., Summer 2001, at 19.
  • Foreword to The North Korean Nuclear Program: Security, Strategy, and New Perspectives from Russia (James Clay Moltz & Alexandre Mansourov eds., Routledge 1999).
  • The Last Nuclear Summit?, Wash. Q., Summer 1994, at ____, reprinted in Beyond 1995: The Future of the NPT Regime (Joseph F. Pilat and Robert E. Pendley eds., Plenum 2d ed. 1995), and Weapons Proliferation in the 1990s (Brad Roberts ed., MIT Press 1995).
  • Reciprocal Independent Disarmament (RID): A New Approach for Arms Control, J. Arms Control & Disarmament, May 1985, at ___.
  • Angola Revisited, Harv. Int'l Rev. Apr. 1981, at ___.

Book Chapters

  • Introduction to US-UK Relations at the Start of the 21st Century, at v (Jeffrey D. McCausland & Douglas T. Stuart eds., Strategic Stud. Inst. 2006).
  • Prospects for Nuclear Proliferation in Asia, in Strategic Asia 2005-06: Military Modernization in an Era of Uncertainty 333 (Ashley J. Tellis & Michael Wills eds., Nat'l Bureau of Asian Res. 2005).
  • Korea After the North-South Summit: Strategic Implications for the United States, in Ending the Cold War in Korea: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives 363 (Chung-in Moon, Odd Arne Westad, & Gyoo-hyoung Kahng eds., Yonsei U. Press 2001).
  • KEDO and the DPRK: Problems and Prospects on the Road Ahead, in Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle 187 (David Albright & Kevin O'Neill eds., Inst. for Sci. & Int'l Sec. Press 2000).
  • Co-author, Nuclear Nonproliferation: Where Has the United States Won and Why?, in Prevailing in a Well-Armed World: Devising Competitive Strategies Against Proliferation (Henry Sokolski ed., Army War College Press 1999) (with Zachary Davis).
  • Co-author, U.S. Counterproliferation Doctrine: Putting New Wine into Old Bottles, Wash. Q., Spring 1995, at 143 (with Harold Moller), reprinted in "La contre-proliferation ou comment pacer de neuf une vielle idee?" in Relations Internationales Et Strategioues (Spring 1995), and reprinted in Weapons Proliferation in the 1990s (Brad Roberts ed., MIT Press 1995)
  • Arms Control Failure: The Washington Naval Treaty and Lessons for the NPT Review Conference, in Bridging the Nonproliferation Divide: The United States and India (Francine Frankel ed., U. Press of Am. 1995).
  • A Win-Win Strategy for the NPT and Beyond, in Old Issues and New Strategies in Arms Control (James Brown ed., U. Press 1995).
  • Nuclear Nonproliferation, in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Joel Drieger editor-in-chief, Oxford U. Press 1993).
  • Rapporteur's Report on 'Asia,' in Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World (Carin Wedar, Sven Hellman, & Karin Soder eds., Swedish Initiative 1993)
  • Negotiating the Nuclear Status of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan: Preliminary Lessons and Policy Implications, in Implications of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union for Accidental/Inadvertent Use of Nuclear Weapons (Intriligator, Wader, & Vares eds., 1992).
  • Pakistan's Security in the 1990s, in Asian Security (Thomas W. Robinson ed., U. Press of Am. 1992).
  • The Soviet Union and Nuclear Nonproliferation, in Soviet Attitudes Toward Regional Security (Kurt Campbell & Neil MacFarlane eds., Groom Helm 1988).

Other

  • Book Review, A Matter of Opinion, Am. Int., Nov./Dec. 2006, at 116.
  • A Fresh Start for Europe and Dubya, Wall St. J. Europe, Feb. 15, 2005, at ____.
  • Negotiating with North Korea, Proliferation Brief (Carnegie Endowment for Non-Proliferation Project), Feb. 5, 2003.
  • Make an Offer to North Korea, Int'l Herald Trib., May 7, 2003, at 6.
  • North Korea: Four Myths in Need of Discarding, Int'l Herald Trib., Jan. 8, 2003, at 6.
  • A New U.S. Policy Towards North Korea?, in Peace, at 46 (Chinese People's Ass'n for Peace & Disarmament, Serial No. 63, June 2002).
  • KEDO: Which Way from Here?, Asian Persp., Spring 2002, at 41.
  • A Path to East Asian Stability, Int'l Herald Trib., June 22-23, 2002, at 8.
  • Co-author, Korean Changes, Asian Challenges and the US Role, Survival, Spring 2001, at 53 (with Kurt M. Campbell).
  • North Korea Policy Perplexities, Wash. Times, Oct. 9, 2001, at A19.
  • Nonproliferation, Nuclear, in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Joel Krieger ed., Oxford U. Press 2d ed. 2001).
  • How to Handle a Rogue State, Asian Wall St. J., Feb. 17, 2000, at ____, reprinted in Korea Soc'y Q., Spring 2000, at ____.
  • Book Review, 115 Pol. Sci. Q. 469 (2000) (reviewing Scott Snyder, Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (1999)).
  • Book Review, Int'l Stud. Rev., Fall 2001, at 169 (2001) (reviewing Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons (Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan & James J. Wirtz eds., Cornell Univ. Press 2000)).
  • Foreward to William Van Dusen Wishard, Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of Meaning (2000).
  • U.S. Policy Towards North Korea, Testimony Before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives (March 16, 2000), reprinted in ICAS Special Contribution (Inst. for Corean-American Stud. 2000), http://www.icasinc.org/lectures/reiss1.html, and in Special Report (Northeast Asia Peace and Secuirty Network), March 22, 2000, and in edited form in PacNet (Pacific Forum CSIS), Apr. 7, 2000.
  • Co-author, Washington Should Try Engagement with Pyongyang, Int'l Herald Trib., March 12, 1999, at ___ (with Donald P. Gregg).
  • Co-editor, International Perspectives on Counterproliferation (Wilson Center Working Group Paper, January 1995) (with Harald Mueller).
  • Book Review, RUSI J., Oct. 1995, at ___ (reviewing P. R. Chari, Indo-Pak Nuclear Standoff: The Role of the United States (1995)).
  • The Importance of Being Earnest: The United States and the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference, RUSI J., June 1995, at ____.
  • The Future that Never Came, Wilson Q., Spring 1995, at ___.
  • For a Safer World, Give the Nuclear Treaty a Long Life, Int'l Herald Trib., Apr. 17, 1995, at ___.
  • Nuclear Roll Back Decisions: Future Lessons?, Arms Control Today, July/August 1995, at 10.
  • After the NPT Conference: The Way Ahead, SPAN (USIA/India), July 1995, at ___.
  • The End of the Pressler Amendment? Not So Fast, Pioneer (Delhi), Jan. 9, 1994, at ___.
  • Co-author, U.S. Counterproliferation Doctrine: Issues for Congress, 140 Congressional Research Service Report (September 21, 1994) (with Zachary S. Davis).
  • Pyongyang Adds to the Danger and Uncertainty, Int'l Herald Trib., June 25-26, 1994, at ____.
  • Co-author, The Subcontinent Doesn't Need Indian Ballistic Missiles, Int'l Herald Trib., Sept. 7, 1994, at ____, reprinted in 140 Cong. Rec. ____ (1994) (with Sumit Ganguly).
  • South Asia and Nuclear Proliferation: A Future Unlike the Past?, RUSI J., Winter 1993, at ___.
  • North Korea: Clinton Could Invite Kim II Sung to Join the World, Int'l Herald Trib., Feb. 11, 1993, at ___.
  • Pyongyang Turns Up The Heat, Int'l Herald Trib., Feb. 13-14, 1993, at ___.
  • A Chance for North Korea to join the Wide World, Int'l Herald Trib., July, 1993, at ___.
  • Atomic Peep Show, Telegraph (Calcutta), Apr. 1993, at ___.
  • The Critical Time Factor, Hindu (Delhi), May 1993, at ___.
  • Co-author, Why South Africa Gave Up the Bomb, Foreign Affairs, Winter 1993, at ___ (with J.W. deVilliers & Roger Jardine).
  • A Dangerous Sort of 'Test Case,' Independent (London), Nov. 15, 1993, at ___.
  • Bring North Korea Back from the Nuclear Brink, Int'l Herald Trib., Mar. 31, 1993, at ___.
  • Rockets, Reapolitik, and the U. S. Relationship, Hindu (Delhi), 1993, at ___.
  • Safeguarding the Nuclear Peace in South Asia (Woodrow Wilson Center Working Group Paper, Sept. 1993)).
  • Safeguarding the Nuclear Peace in South Asia, XXXIII Asian Survey 1107 (1993).
  • A Jujitsu Trade Strategy for the US, RUSI Newsbrief, Feb. 1992, at ___.
  • Washington Should Take a Lesson in Jujitsu, Independent (London), Jan. 1992, at ___.
  • Co-author, Aid to CIS Countries: Waste Not, Want Not, Ukrainian Weekly, Apr. 1992, at ___ (with John Hewko).
  • Book Review, RUSI J., 1991, at ___ (reviewing Janne E. Nolan, Trappings of Power: Ballistic Missiles in the Third World (1991)).
  • The Illusion of Influence: The United States and Pakistan's Nuclear Program, RUSI J., Summer 1991, at ___.
  • Co-author, The New Soviet Union: An Unfinished Revolution, RUSI J., Winter 1991, at ___ (with Lisa Jameson).
  • Co-author, Soviets' Nuclear Question, Christian Sci. Monitor, June 1991, at ___ (with John Hewko).
  • Book Review, Survival, Mar./Apr. 1990, at ___ (reviewing Robert S. McNamara, Out of the Cold (1989) and John Mueller, Retreat from Doomsday, the Obsolescence of Major War (1989)).
  • Co-author, At the Nuclear Threshold, Wash. Times, Sept. 1990, at ___ (with Warren Donnelly).
  • End of the Cold War: The East-West Security Agenda, Rapporteur's Summary in 1990: The Management of Diversity (Report of the Sixth Conference of the British-American Project for the Successor Generation, Oct. 1990).
  • Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers: Risky Business?, J. Arms Control & Disarmament, Fall 1989, at ____.
  • The Far East: Personal Notes, Williams C. Alumni Rev., Fall 1989, at ___.
  • Co-author, Pakistan, United States Aid, and the Bomb, Christian Sci. Monitor, Sept. 1987, at ___ (with Warren Donnelly).
  • Book Review, Survival, Nov./Dec. 1986, at ___ (reviewing Hawks, Doves & Owls, An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War (Allison, Carnesale, & Nye eds., 1985)).
  • Beyond the 1985 NPT Review Conference: Learning to Live With Uncertainty, Survival, Sept./Oct. 1985, at ___.
  • Book Review, Survival, Jan./Feb. 1985, at ___ (reviewing Strategies for Managing Nuclear Proliferation (Brito et al. eds., 1983) and Benjamin N. Schiff, International Nuclear Technology Transfer (1993)).
  • Book Review, ___ Int'l Tax & Bus. Law. ___ (1985) (reviewing Law of the Sea: U.S. Policy Dilemma (Bernard Oxman ed., 1983)).
  • Arms Control, Strategic Surv. (IISS, 1984-85).
  • The Lost Debate: Britain and Cruise Missiles, RUSI J., Mar. 1984, at ___.
  • Book Review, Naval War C. Rev., May/June 1984, at ___ (reviewing Lewis Sorley, Arms Transfer under Nixon (1983)).
  • Book Review, ___ Am. J. Int'l L. ___ (1984) (reviewing N.A. Maryan Green, International Law, Law of Peace (2d ed.)).
  • Book Review, 78 Am. J. Int'l L. 1031 (1984) (reviewing Julie Dahlitz, Nuclear Arms Control (1983)).
  • Book Review, 78 Am. J. Int'l L. 983 (1984) (reviewing Allan McKnight, The Forgotten Treaties: A Practical Plan for World Disarmament (1983)).
  • GATT: Guidelines for Arms Control, Bull. Atom. Scientists, May 1983, at ___.
  • Maitrise des Armements: échec ou succés?, Revue De Defense Nationale, Mar. 1983, at ___.
  • Learning from GATT: Lessons for Arms Control, J. Arms Control & Disarmament, Spring 1983, at ___.
  • La Revision des Accords ABM: Le Mieux Est L'Ennemi Du Bien, Revue De Defense Nationale, July 1982, at ___.
  • One Year After Desert One, UPI, Apr. 1981, at ___.
  • Has Reagan Reversed Nuclear Arms Policy?, Sun. Times (London), Dec. 1981, at ___.
  • Book Review, 417 Fletcher F. 420 (1981) (reviewing Gerard Smith, Doubletalk, The Story of the First Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (1980)).
  • Book Review, 5 Fletcher F. 179 (1981) (reviewing Internationalization to Prevent the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (1980)).
  • Book Review, Survival, Nov./Dec. 1979, at ___ (reviewing Carsten Holbraad, Superpowers and International Conflict).

 


 
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