Friedberg CV1
AARON L. FRIEDBERG
PERSONAL:
Born April 16, 1956; Pittsburgh, PA
Married, two sons
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Government, Harvard University, March 1986.
A.B. Government, Harvard University, 1978.Magna Cum Laude
EMPLOYMENT:
1999-present, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University (public service leave 2003-05)
June 2003 – June 2005, Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs, Office of the Vice President
1993-1999, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
1987-1993, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
OTHER POSITIONS:
2011 –present, Non-resident Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund
2011 –present, Member, Academic Advisory Board, American Enterprise Institute
2010-present, President and Founding Board Member, Alexander Hamilton Society
2011-2012 – Co-Chair, Asia-Pacific Working Group and China Policy Transition Group, Romney for President Campaign
2009-present, co-director Center for International Security Studies, Princeton University
2006-08, Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion
2007 - 08, Defense Policy Board
2007 - , National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
2006 - , Chair, Board of Counselors, National Bureau of Asian Research Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies
2005-06, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Quadrennial Defense Review ‘Red Team”
2005 - 08 , National Intelligence Council Associates
2002-03, Director, Center of International Studies, Princeton University
2001-2002, Henry A. Kissinger Scholar, Library of Congress
2000-2001, Acting Director, Center of International Studies
2000-2003, Research Director, National Bureau of Asian Research “Strategic Asia” project
1992-2003, Director, Research Program in International Security, Princeton University
1988-2003, Associate Editor, World Politics
1993-1997, Review Articles Editor, World Politics
1993-present, Editorial Board, Joint Forces Quarterly
1989-92, Editorial Board, Political Science Teacher
1990-93, Cyril E. Black Preceptor, Princeton University
AWARDS:
2011, A Contest for Supremacy named by Financial Times as one of the “best books in politics for 2011.”
2004, National Bureau of Asian Research Director’s Award for Excellence in Research
2000, Choice annual list of Outstanding Academic Books
1989, Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award for “an exceptional contribution to the study of national security.
1988, American Political Science Association’s Helen Dwight Reid Award for the “best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted during 1986 or 1987 in the field of international relations, law and politics.”
1986, British Politics Group’s Samuel Beer Dissertation Prize for a contribution to “the understanding of British politics.”
1986, Harvard University Edward M. Chase Prize for “an exceptional thesis on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace.”
FELLOWSHIPS:
2002, Visiting Scholar, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
2001-2002, Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar in Foreign Policy and International Affairs, Library of Congress
2001-2002, Council on Foreign Relations/Toshiba Japan Fellow (declined)
1998, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute
1992, Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Fellowship in Foreign
Policy Studies
1990-91, Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and Senior Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
1989-90, Smithsonian Institution, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1989-90, John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow
1986-87, Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in European Society and Western Security
1985-86, MacArthur Foundation Fellow in International Security
1983-85, John M. Olin Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow
1983-84, Krupp Foundation Fellow in European Studies
1980-82, Ray Atherton Fellow in International Relations
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Beyond AirSea Battle: The Debate Over U.S. Military Strategy in Asia (New York and London: Routledge, forthcoming 2014).
A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (W.W. Norton, 2011). (Translated into Korean, Japanese and Chinese – both simplified and traditional characters.)
In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and its Cold War Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 2000).
The Weary Titan: Britain and The Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905
(Princeton University Press, 1988). (Paperback edition, 1989; Japanese language edition: Niimori Shobo, 1989; new edition with afterword, Fall 2010).
Strategic Asia 2001-2002: Power and Purpose, co-editor with Richard Ellings (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001).
Strategic Asia 2002-2003: Asian Aftershocks, co-editor with Richard Ellings (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2002).
Strategic Asia 2003-04: Fragility and Crisis, co-editor with Richard Ellings (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2003).
Book chapters
“Introduction: Thinking About Strategy in Asia,” in Thomas G. Mahnken, ed. Strategy in Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2014).
Introduction to the Japanese language edition of A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (アーロン・Ｌ・フリードバーグ（訳者代表：佐橋亮）『支配への競争：米中対立の構図とアジアの将来』（日本評論社、2013年6月出版予定）(Tokyo: Nihon Hyoron Sha, 2013).
“The Geopolitics of Strategic Asia, 2000-2020,” Travis Tanner, eds., Strategic Asia 2010-2011:Asia’s Rising Power and America’s Continued Purpose (Seattle, WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2010), pp. 25-46.
“Strengthening Strategic Planning,” in Daniel Drezner, ed., Avoiding Trivia: The Future of Strategic Planning (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009), pp. 84-97.
“U.S. Strategy in Northeast Asia: Short and Long-Term Challenges,”in Wilson Lee, Robert M. Hathaway, William M. Wise, eds., U.S. Strategy in the Asia-Pacific Region (Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2003), pp. 18-30.
“United States,”in Richard Ellings and Aaron Friedberg, eds., Strategic Asia 2002-2003: Asian Aftershocks (Seattle, WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2002), pp. 17-48.
“American Anti-Statism and the Founding of the Cold War State,” in Ira Katznelson, Martin Shefter, Theda Skocpol, eds., Shaped by War and Trade, Princeton University Press, 2002), pp. 239-266.
“The Struggle for Mastery in Asia,”in Michael R. Chambers, ed., South Asia in 2020: Future Strategic Balances and Alliances (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2002), pp. 449-472. Also reprinted in John T. Rourke, ed., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in World Politics (Guilford, CT: Dushkin-McGraw Hill, 2001).
“Introduction,” in Richard Ellings and Aaron Friedberg, eds., Strategic Asia 2001-2002: Power and Purpose (Seattle, WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001), pp. 1-25.
“The Making of American National Strategy, 1948-2000,”in Center for the Study of the Presidency, Report to the President Elect 2000: In Harm’s Way – Intervention and Prevention (Washington: Center for the Study of the Presidency, 2000), pp. 114-123.
"Arming China Against Ourselves," in Glenn Hastedt, ed., American Foreign Policy (Guilford, CT: Dushkin-McGraw Hill, 2000), pp. 66-73.
"The United States and the Cold War Arms Race," in Odd Arne Westad, ed., Reviewing the Cold War (London: Frank Cass, 2000), pp. 207-231.
"Asian Allies: True Strategic Partners," in Robert Kagan and William Kristol, eds., Present Dangers (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000), pp. 197-220.
“Ripe for Rivalry: Prospects for Peace in a Multipolar Asia,” in Michael E. Brown, et al, eds., East Asian Security (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996), pp. 3-31.
“The End of the Cold War and the Future of American Power,” in Geir Lundestad, ed., The Fall of Great Powers: Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 175-196.
“The Changing Relationship Between Economics and National Security,” in Demetrios Caraley and Cerentha Harris, eds., New World Politics: Power, Ethnicity, and Democracy (New York: Academy of Political Science, 1993), pp. 99-110.
“The Changing Relationship Between Economics and National Security,” in Henry Bienen, ed., Power, Economics, and Security (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 134-146.
“The End of Autonomy: The United States after Five Decades,” in Raymond Vernon and Ethan Kapstein, eds., Defense and Dependence in a Global Economy (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1992), pp. 69-90.
“Is the United States Capable of Acting Strategically? Congress and the President,” in Charles W. Kegler and Eugene R. Wittkopf, eds., The Future of American Foreign Policy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991), pp. 95-111.
“Will Defense Cuts Make America More Competitive?,” in Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, Emerging Dimensions of European Security Policy (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991),
pp. 221-231.
“The Political Economy of U.S. National Security Policy,” in Daniel J. Kaufman, David S. Clark, and Kevin P. Sheehan, eds., U.S. National Strategy in the 1990s (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), pp. 59-80.
“Four Myths About the Changing Nature of Power,” in Report Prepared for the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. Power in a Changing World, 101st Congress, 2nd. sess. (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990), pp. 5-10.
“United States Strategy Since 1945,” in L. Carl Brown, ed., Centerstage: American Diplomacy Since the Second World War (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1990), pp. 58-75.
“The Making of American National Strategy,” in Benjamin Frankel, ed., In The National Interest (Boston: University Press of America, 1989).
“What SALT Can (And Cannot) Do,” in Bernard Halloran, ed., Essays On Arms Control and Strategy (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986), pp. 121-128.
“The Evolution of U.S. Strategic ‘Doctrine’ - 1945-1981,” in Samuel P. Huntington, ed., The Strategic Imperative (Cambridge: Ballinger Press, 1982) pp. 53-99.
“A History of the U.S. Strategic ‘Doctrine’ - 1945-1980,” in Amos Perlmutter and John Gooch, eds., Strategy and the Social Sciences (London: Frank Cass, 1981), pp. 37-71.
Journal articles
“Japan Needs a China Strategy,” (「善意と対話の対中政策」からの転換を) Shincho 45 (March 2013).
“The Euro Crisis and U.S. Strategy,” Survival vol. 54, no. 6 (December 2012-January 2013), pp. 7-28.
“Bucking Beijing: An Alternative U.S. China Policy,” Foreign Affairs vol. 91, no. 5 (September/October 2012), pp. 48-58.
“The Next Phase of the ‘Contest for Supremacy’ in Asia,” Asia Policy no. 14 (July 2012), pp. 31-35.
"Reflections on the 9/11 Decade," The RUSI Journalvol. 156, no. 4 (August/September 2011), p. 8.
"Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics," The National Interestvol. 114 (July/August 2011), pp. 18-28.
“Implications of the Financial Crisis for the U.S.-China Rivalry,” Survival vol. 52, no. 4 (August-September 2010), pp. 31-54.
“Same Old Songs: What the Declinists (and Triumphalists) Miss,” The American Interest vol. V, no. 2 (November/December, 2009), pp. 28-35.
“Here Be Dragons; Is China a Military Threat?” The National Interest no. 103 (September/October 2009), pp. 19-25, 31-32.
“Build on Past Successes, Tackle Long-Term Challenges,” Asia Policy no. 7 (January 2009).
“Asia Rising,” The American Interest vol. IV, no. 3 (January/February, 2009), pp. 52-62.
“What If? A World Without the U.S.-ROK Alliance,” (with Nicholas Eberstadt and Geun Lee) Asia Policy no. 5 (January 2008), pp. 2-5.
“Strengthening U.S. Strategic Planning,” The Washington Quarterly vol. 31, no. 1 (Winter 2007-08), pp. 47-60.
“The Long Haul: Fighting and Funding America’s Next Wars,” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2007), pp. 140-146.
“Pursuing Security in a Dynamic Northeast Asia,” Asia Policy no. 3 (January 2007).
“What the United States Wants,” (symposium on the U.S.-Japan alliance) Armed Forces Journal (December 2005).
“The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable?,” International Security vol. 30, no. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 7-45
“11 September and the Future of Sino-American Relations,”Survival vol. 44, no. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 33-50.
"Will Europe's Past be Asia's Future?" Survival vol. 42, no. 3 (Autumn 2000), pp. 147-59.
“Warring States: Theoretical Models of Asian Pacific Security,” Harvard International Review vol. 18, no. 2 (Spring 1996), pp. 12-15, 68.
“Science, the Cold War, and the American State,” Diplomatic History vol. 20, no. 1 (Winter 1996), pp. 107-118.
“The Future of American Power,” Political Science Quarterly vol. 109, no. 1 (Spring 1994), pp. 1-22.
“Ripe for Rivalry: Prospects for Peace in a Multipolar Asia,” International Security vol. 18, no. 3 (Winter 1993/94), pp. 5-33.
“Why Didn’t the U.S. Become a Garrison State?,” International Security vol. 16, no. 2 (Spring 1992), pp. 109-142.
“How to Cut the Defense Budget by $100 Billion: A Symposium,” Policy Review no. 60 (Spring 1992), pp. 52-53.
“The End of Autonomy: The United States After Five Decades,” Daedalus vol. 120, no. 4 (Fall 1991), pp. 69-90. (Special issue on Searching for Security in a Global Economy.)
“The Changing Relationship Between Economics and National Security,” Political Science Quarterly vol. 106, no. 2 (Summer 1991), pp. 265-276.
“Is the United States Capable of Acting Strategically?,” Washington Quarterly vol. 14, no. 1 (Winter 1991), pp. 5-23.
“In Search of the Peace Dividend,” The Wilson Quarterly vol. 14, no. 4 (Autumn 1990),
pp. 78-79.
“The Strategic Implications of Relative Economic Decline,” Political Science Quarterly vol. 104, no. 3 (Fall 1989), pp. 401-431.
“The Political Economy of American Strategy,” World Politics vol. XLI, no. 3 (April 1989), pp. 381-406.
“The Making of American National Strategy,” The National Interest no. 11 (Spring 1988),
pp. 65-75.
“The Assessment of Military Power: A Review Essay,” International Security vol. 12, no. 3 (Winter 1987/88), pp. 190-202.
“Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline,” Journal of Strategic Studies vol. 10, no. 3 (September 1987), pp. 331-362.
“Britain Faces the Burdens of Empire: The Financial Crisis of 1901-1905,” War and Society vol. 5, no. 2 (September 1987), pp. 15-37.
“Engagement and Escalation: The Danger of Nuclear War in the Pacific and the Persian Gulf,” Crossroads no. 21 (1986), pp. 59-81.
“American’s Strategic Position,” Parameters vol. 16, no. 4 (Winter 1986), pp. 30-38.
“The Collapsing Triangle: U.S. and Soviet Policies Towards China, 1969-1982,” Comparative Strategy vol. 4, no. 2 (Winter 1983), pp. 113-146.
“A History of the U.S. Strategic ‘Doctrine’: 1945-1980,” The Journal of Strategic Studies vol. 3, no. 3 (December 1980), pp. 37-71.
“What SALT Can (And Cannot) Do,” Foreign Policy no. 33 (Winter 1978/79), pp. 92-100.
“Soviet Arms: A Reply,” The Interdependent vol. 4, no. 4 (April 1977), p. 2.
Book reviews
"The Unrealistic Realist" (review of Henry Kissinger'sOn China)The New Republicvol. 242, no 4,906 (August 4, 2011), pp. 25-29.
“The New Great Game,” (Reivew of Robert Kaplan, Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power) New York Times Book Review (November 10, 2010).
“Are We Ready for China?” Commentary (October 2007), pp. 39-43. (Review of James Mann, The China Fantasy and Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive.)
Review of Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads in Commentary (April 2006).
Review of Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World in The New York Times (November 25, 2001).
Review of Muthiah Alagappa, ed. Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences in American Political Science Review in the American Political Science Review vol. 94, (March 2000).
Review of Robert Conquest, Reflections on a Ravaged Century in Commentary (February 2000), pp. 59-61.
Review of Nicholas Eberstadt, The End of North Korea in The New York Times (December 12, 1999).
Review of Michael Dobbs, Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth Century Odyssey in The New York Times (May 2, 1999).
Review of Bill Gertz, Betrayal and Paul Bracken, Fire in the East in The Wall Street Journal (June 16, 1999).
Review of Eric Alterman, Who Speaks for America? in Commentary (February 1999), pp. 64-66.
Review of Fareed Zakaria, From Wealth to Power in The Wall Street Journal (May 13, 1998).
Review of Walter A. McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State in Commentary (July 1997), pp. 54-56.
Review of Richard Bernstein and Ross Munro, The Coming Conflict with China in The Wall Street Journal (February 1997).
Review of Richard Overy, How the Allies Won in The Weekly Standard vol. 1, no. 45 (August 5, 1996), pp. 37-39.
Review of Donald Kagan, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace in Commentary (March 1995), pp. 62-64.
Review of Henry Nau, The Myth of American Decline in Political Science Quarterly vol. 106, no. 3 (Fall 1991), pp. 528-529.
Review of D.C.M. Platt, Britain’s Investment Overseas on the Eve of the First World War in British Politics Group Newsletter no. 47 (Winter 1987), p. 47.
Review of Curt Gasteyger, Searching for World Security in American Political Science Review vol. 81, no. 1 (March 1987), p. 321.
Research monographs
“Three Theories of Chinese Assertiveness,” (January 2014).
“U.S. Military Strategy in Asia,” (February 2013).
“China’s ‘Indian Ocean Dilemma,’” (May 2013).
“Beyond the Euro Crisis: Implications for U.S. Strategy,” German Marshall Fund, EuroFuture Project, (October 2012).
“Deterring China,” (October 2012).
“When China Rules the World” (February 2012).
“Closing the Interest-Capabilities Gap: China’s Possible Long-Term Objectives in the ‘Near Seas,’” (July 2011).
“How Can China Close its Interests-Capabilities Gap?” (July 2010).
“Dissuading Undeterrable Opponents,” (August 2009).
“Strategies for Long-Term Competition,” (June 2009).
“An American Strategy for Asia,” (with Dan Blumenthal) American Enterprise Institute report (January 2009)
“Net Assessment and the Strategic Challenge of China,” (March 2008).
“Strategies for Long-Term Competition: Examples from the Cold War,” (March 2007).
“What Does it Take for China to Become a ‘Responsible Stakeholder’?” Prepared for National Institute for Defense Studies Symposium on International Security 2007 “China’s Rise and its Limitations: China at the Crossroads” (February 2007).
“Alternative American Grand Strategies: A Guide for the Perplexed,” Prepared for the Long-Term Strategy Project (December 2006).
“’Going out’: China’s Pursuit of Natural Resources and Implications for the PRC’s Grand Strategy,” NBR Analysis vol. 17, no. 3 (September 2006).
“Strengthening Strategic Planning,” Prepared for the Long-Term Strategy Project (June 2006).
“Preserving American Primacy,” Prepared for the Long-Term Strategy Project (January 2006).
“The United States as an Asian Power, 1787-2002,”1st annual Kissinger Chair Lecture, Library of Congress (June 2002).
"Europe's Past, Asia's Future?" SAIS Policy Forum Series no. 3 (October 1998).
"The Rise of the Sino-Japanese Antagonism, 1972-2025," (Harvard University, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Project on East Asian Security, August 1996).
"The Political Economy of American 'Renewal'" (Harvard University, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Project on the Changing Security Environment and American National Interests, Working Paper No. 8, November 1994).
"Nuclear Multipolarity" (Center for National Security Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Project on Regional Security Challenges and the Future of Nuclear Weapons, September 1994).
Selected other writings
“Not All ‘Teams of Rivals’ Are Made the Same: China’s Disastrously Divided Leadership,” The New Republic (November 13, 2012).
“Obama’s China Policy Is a Massive Failure,” RealClearWorld (October 22, 2012).
“America Cannot ‘Lead From Behind’ in Asia,” The Diplomat (October 9, 2012).
“U.S. and China Vie for Supremacy in the Pacific,” The National (April 20, 2012).
"China's Challenge at Sea," The New York Times(September 5, 2011), p. A19.
“The New Era of U.S.-China Rivalry,” The Wall Street Journal (January 17, 2011).
“A Man of Big Ideas: Remembering Samuel P. Huntington,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 16, 2009).
“The Dangers of a Diminished America,” (with Gabriel Schoenfeld) The Wall Street Journal (October 21, 2008).
“Distrust But Verify: Caving in to North Korea,” (with Dan Blumenthal) The Weekly Standard vol. 13, no. 44 (August 4, 2008).
“Bush Should Keep His Word on Taiwan,” (with Dan Blumenthal, Randall Schriver, and Ashley Tellis) The Wall Street Journal (July 19, 2008).
“The Task Ahead,” (with Shivaji Sondhi) outlookindia.com (September 8, 2008).
“Toward an America-Free Korea,” (with Nicholas Eberstadt and Christopher Griffin) The Wall Street Journal (October 6, 2007).
“Patching Up the U.S.-Japan Bond,” (with Dan Blumenthal) Los Angeles Times (April 26, 2007).
“Not Too Late to Stop the Dear Leader,” (with Dan Blumenthal) The Weekly Standard (February 12, 2007).
“How to Control a Nuclear North Korea?” Council on Foreign Relations online debate (December 4-8, 2006).