Janne Emilie Nolan

4628 Sedgwick Street NW Washington, D.C. 20016

202 256-0494  

Current

Chair, Nuclear Security Working Group
The George Washington University / 2012 – Present
  • Direct and manage high-level nuclear security research and outreach network to encourage nonpartisan analysis and discourse among Executive Branch officials, members of Congress, their staff, and senior policy experts.
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Research Professor and Program Director
The George Washington University / 2012 - Present
  • Courses on U.S. national security and foreign policy for graduate students and mid-career professionals.
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Previous Positions

Professor of International Affairs and Deputy Director
The Matthew L. Ridgway Center
Graduate School of International and Public Policy
University of Pittsburgh / 2004 - 2010
  • Graduate classes taught: Introduction to Military Strategy, Ethics and National Security, Advanced Intelligence Techniques, Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, History of Nuclear Weapons.
  • Served as Vice-President of the Faculty (elected), and chair or member of seven doctoral committees.
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Director
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Georgetown University
  • Organized and chaired series of studies funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation involving senior policy-makers and intelligence officials to examine the interaction of intelligence and policy failures and the challenges of providing intelligence support to support diplomacy and counter proliferation strategies. Published detailed case studies about the dynamics of strategic failure and why efforts to stem regional nuclear proliferation succeeded of failed.
Foreign Policy Director
The Century Foundation of New York
  • Managed all foreign and national security programs, including research projects, book contracts, and media and public events for New York-based public policy foundation and publisher.
Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution
  • Conducted research projects and published numerous books, monographs, and articles about US defense strategy, the international technology market, weapons proliferation and export controls, nuclear plans and doctrine, and the U.S. national security apparatus.
  • Established and chaired Brookings’ National Security Forum for Congressional staff and media and served as chair of the Brookings foreign policy doctoral fellowship committee.
National Security Advisor
Office of Senator Gary Hart [D-Colorado]
  • Served as the Senator’s senior foreign/national security policy adviser, staff director, and senior staff representative for the Senate Armed Services Committee. Advisor to several presidential campaigns and transition teams.
Senior International Security Consultant
Science Applications International Corporation
  • Managed research contracts for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the areas of strategic missile defenses, nuclear doctrine, and the military uses of space.
Foreign Affairs Officer
U.S. Department of State
  • Specialized in the management and analysis of conventional arms and dual-use technology diffusion policies, export controls, NATO military modernization, and Asian security.
  • Served as member of official delegation negotiating with USSR to achieve constraints on the sale of advanced arms and technologies to unstable regions.
/ 2003 - 2009
1997 - 2001
1986 - 1997
1983 - 1986
1981 - 1983
1980 -1982
1977 - 1981

Education

Ph.D.Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Middle East Studies graduate courses (in fulfillment of Fletcher doctoral requirements), Harvard University

M.A. Law and Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

B.A.Political Science and Foreign Languages, Antioch College

Official Appointments

Strategic Posture Commission of the United States
  • Congressional panel chaired by former Secretaries of Defense Schlesinger and Perry to draft guidance for a new Nuclear Posture Review. Appointed member of the working group on deterrence policy.
/ 2008 - 2010
National Defense Panel
  • Member of Congressionally-appointed panel conducting yearlong review and oversight of the Pentagon’s first Quadrennial Defense Review.
/ 2000
Defense Policy Board
  • Member of advisory board to the Secretary of Defense.
/ 1993 – 2001
The Commission to Assess the Organization of Government to Combat Proliferation
  • (Chaired by DCI John Deutch and Senator Arlen Spector, R-PA) Member of Congressionally-appointed commission charged with analyzing organizational challenges in the U.S. decision-making apparatus for intelligence and non-proliferation policy.
Department of State’s 1998 Accountability Review Board
  • (Chaired by Admiral William Crowe) Investigated decision making relating to the security of U.S. embassies leading up to the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Kenya and Tanzania.
The Commission on Intelligence Assessments of Ballistic Missile Threats
  • (Chaired by Robert Gates) Member of congressionally appointed commission to review the validity and objectivity of the intelligence community’s assessment of the emerging ballistic missile threat to the United States.
Presidential Advisory Board on Arms Technology Proliferation Policy
  • White House commission on U.S. policy and governmental organization to manage the global diffusion of military technology (chair).
Non-Proliferation Advisory Panel
  • Member of advisory panel for the DCI on non-proliferation issues.
Board of Distinguished Advisors, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Member of expert panel on nuclear developments, verification, and stockpile safety issues.
/ 2000 – 2001
1998
1997
1995
1994 – 1997
1993 - 2009

Professional Affiliations and Board Memberships

Board/Committee Member
American Academy of Art and Sciences (International Security Committee), American Middle East Institute (founding member), ArmsWatch (Human Rights Watch), Arms Control Association, Center for Climate and Security, Council on Strategic Risks, Foreign Service Council, International Institute for Strategic Studies (Executive Committee), Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis,, Journal of Non-Proliferation, Sandia Nuclear Laboratory, Texas National Security Review
Other Appointed Memberships
Aspen Strategy Group (Distinguished Emeritus), Council on Foreign Relations, Hewlett Foundation Nuclear Advisors, Council on Foreign Relations, Cosmos Club.
Additional Academic Appointments
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
  • Member of expert panel on nuclear developments, verification, and stockpile safety issues.
/ 2006 – 2008
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
  • Adjunct Professor of International Security: Courses in international technology and military strategy.
Security Studies Program, Georgetown University
  • Senior Research Professor. Graduate courses in The Evolution of Nuclear Policy, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Ethics and National Security.
/ 2000- present
2002-2010

Consultant

  • Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Center for American Progress
  • Center for Defense Information
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Century Foundation of New York
  • ConnectUS
  • Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary
  • DFI International
  • Ford Foundation
  • Henry L. Stimson Center
  • Hewlett Foundation
  • Institute for Defense Analysis
  • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
  • Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Laboratory
  • Merrill-Lynch Corporation
  • National Intelligence Council
  • New American Foundation
  • Office of the DCI
  • RAND
  • Sage Associates
  • SAIC Corporation
  • Strategic Assessments Group
  • U.S. Army Chief of Staff
  • U.S. Department of State
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
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Foundation Advisor

  • The Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Compton Foundation
  • ConnectUS
  • The Ford Foundation
  • The Hewlett Foundation
  • The Kettering Foundation
  • The John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation
  • Peace and Security Initiative
  • Ploughshares Fund
  • The Rockefeller Foundation
  • Stanley Foundation
  • WAND
  • W. Alton Jones Foundation
  • Winston Foundation

Honors and Research Awards

RECENTGRANTS

  • John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2016 –present): $5,000,000 in support of research on nuclear security and to establish Congressional Fellows Program.
  • CarnegieCorporationofNewYork(2009-present): $1,400,000tosupporttheestablishmentoftheNuclear Security WorkingGroupofseniorexpertsandformerofficialstoundertakeactivitiesinsupportofnonpartisannuclearsecuritypolicyformulation.
  • Ploughshares Foundation (2010- 2012):Researchand general supportgrantawardedtoJanneNolaninsupportofongoingprofessionalactivitiesenhancingbipartisandiscourse aboutAmericannuclearsecurity.
  • Ford Foundation researchgrant (2004-2007): Tosupportworkundertakenby JanneNolanand theRidgway Centeron TheLogicof 21stCenturyAmericanSecurity,examiningtheeffectivenessofnewpoliciesandinstitutionsarisingintheUStocombatglobalthreatsafter9/11.OngoingconsultationswiththeFord Foundation (1995– 2010)
  • EisenhowerConferenceSeries(2003-2006):ContractfromArmyChiefofStafftoJanneNolantodesignatetheRidgwayCenterasoneofthreeco-sponsorsoftheArmy’sannualpolicy conferenceinWashington,D.C.andtoorganize andchair panelsforthisevent. Servedas conferencemasterofceremoniesin2004.Conferenceattendedbyseveralhundredparticipantsandwebcastworldwide.
  • AspenStrategyGroup:Fundsraisedfromprivatedonorstosupporttheeffortsofthisselectmembershipgroup(co-chairedbyBrentScowcroftandJosephNye)
  • InstitutefortheStudyofDiplomacy,GeorgetownUniversity(2004-2010):Awardedtwograntsfor$500,000bytheJohnD.andCatherineT.MacArthurFoundationtosupportresearchontheroleofinformeddissentinAmericanforeignpolicyformulationandhowconstraintsondiscourseaffectAmericanstrategy,interests,anddemocraticgovernance.

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  • StanleyFoundation(2008):OperationalgranttosupportthedevelopmentofaPittsburgh-MiddleEastInstitute,beginningwitheventsinSeptember 2008 toincludeaconference and dinnerserieschaired byPaulO’NeillandfeaturingNYTcolumnist TomFriedman,CNNcommentatorFareedZakaria,andformerSecretaryofStateMadelineAlbright.

PAST AWARDS

  • CarnegieCorporationofNewYorkresearchgrants(1987,2009)
  • FordFoundation,ResearchinInternationalSecurityGrant(1982,1986,1993,2006
  • CouncilonForeignRelationsInternationalAffairsFellowship(1986-1987)
  • StanfordUniversityCenterforInternationalSecurityandCooperationDoctoralResearchFellow
  • Scaife Family Trust research and writing grant
  • InstitutefortheStudyofWorldPoliticsresearchgrant

Publications

Books

Tyranny of Consensus: Discourse and Dissent in American National Security Policy, (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2014)

Security and Intelligence in the Age of Diplomacy, (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 2009)

Discourse, Dissent and Strategic Surprise: Formulating U.S. Security in an Age of Uncertainty, with Douglas MacEachin. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 2006)

Ultimate Security: Weapons of Mass Destruction in the 21st Century, co-editor with Bernard Finel and Brian Finlay. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003)

An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Politics After the Cold War, (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999)

Global Engagement: Security and Cooperation in the 21st Century, ed. (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1991)

Trappings of Power: Ballistic Missiles in the Third World, (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1991)

Guardians of the Arsenal: The Politics of Nuclear Strategy, (New York, New York: Basic Books, 1989)

Military Industry in Taiwan and South Korea, (London: Macmillan, 1986)

Book Chapters

“U.S. Policy, Politics and Organizational Issues in International Space Cooperation,” chapter in Partners in Space, NASA-sponsored study of the costs and benefits of U.S. – Russian space cooperation, (Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2003).

“The Perils of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons,” (with Bernard Finel and Brian Finlay), in Michael Brown, ed. Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century, (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003)

“American Policy in Northeast Asia: An Emerging Bush Legacy?,” in Robert M. Hathaway and Wilson Lee, George W. Bush and Asia: A Mid-Term Assessment, (Washington, D.C.: Center for strategic and International Studies, 2002).

“Foreign Policy Presentation: Oil and Globalization,” in Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Global Markets and National Interests: The New Geopolitics of Energy, Capital, and Information, (Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002).

“U.S. Arms Policy in an Insecure World,” (with William Keller), Chapter in Ellen Frost and Harlan Ullman, Eds. The Global Century, (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University, 2002).

“The Next Nuclear Policy Review,” in Harold Feiveson, Ed. Deep Cuts in Nuclear Forces, (Washington, D.C. and New York, New York: Aspen Strategy Group, 1998).

“The Proliferation Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction and U.S. Security Interests,” chapter in 1997 Aspen Strategy Group, Volume on Global Proliferation, (Washington D.C. and New York New York: Aspen Strategy Group, 1998).

“Nuclear Weapons: Is There a Clinton Legacy?,” in Kenneth W. Thompson, Ed. Presidents and Arms Control, (University Press of America, 1997).

“Challenges Posed by Space Launch and Missile Proliferation,” (with Tom Mahnken), in Peter Hayes, Ed. Space Power Interests, (Westview Press, 1996).

“U.S. Management of Technology Diffusion,” in Cascade of Arms, Andrew Pierre, Ed. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1996).

“Land Mines: The Arms Control Dimension,” in Clearing the Fields, Kevin M. Cahill, Ed. (New York, New York: Basic Books, 1995)

“Preventive Approaches: The MTCR Regime,” in Weapons of Mass Destruction: New Perspectives on Counter Proliferation, Stuart E. Johnson and William H. Lewis, Eds. (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1995).

“Technology and Weapons Proliferation: Policy Trends for the United States and Implications for China Policy,” in United States and China Relations at a Crossroads, David M. Lampton and Alfred D. Wilhelm Jr., Eds. (Atlantic Council of the United States/University Press of America, 1995).

“Sovereignty and Collective Intervention: Controlling Weapons of Mass Destruction,” in Beyond Westphalia? State Sovereignty and International Intervention, Gene M. Lyons and Michael Mastanduno, Eds. (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

“The Presidency and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,” in Presidents and Arms Control, Kenneth W. Thompson, Ed. (University Press of America, 1994).

“Alternative Approaches to Managing Missile Proliferation, “ in The International Missile Bazaar, William C. Potter and Harlan W. Jencks, Eds. (Westview Press, 1994).

“The Proliferation of Ballistic Missile and Other Advanced Weapons Security Challenges and Prospects for Control,” in American Defense Annual, Joseph Kruzel, Ed. (Lexington Books, 1993)

“Technology and Non-Proliferation in a Changing World Order,” in Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, (Iowa College of Law, Fall, 1992)

“Overview: Military and Foreign Policy,” (with Samuel R. Berger) in America: Blueprints for the New Administration, Mark Green Ed. (New York, New York: New Market Press, 1992)

“Worldwide Threats and Implications for U.S. Force Structure: The Middle East and South Asia,” prepared for the General Accounting Office, Worldwide Threats and Implications for the U.S. Force Posture, (April, 1992).

“Proliferation and International Security: An Overview,” in The Proliferation of Advanced Weaponry: Technology, Motivations and Responses W. Thomas Wander and Eric H. Arnett, Eds. (Washington D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992).

“Stemming the Proliferation of Ballistic Missiles: An Assessment of Arms Control Options,” in Arms Control and Weapon Proliferation in the Middle East and South Asia, Shelley A. Stahl and Geoffrey Kemp Eds. (New York, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992).

“The Role of China in the Non-Proliferation of Ballistic Missiles,” chapter prepared for the Atlantic Council Project, At a Crossroads in American Policy Toward China: Rebuilding a Consensus, (May 1992)

“Arms Control and the Proliferation of Ballistic Missiles,” (with W. Seth Carus), in Arms Control and Confidence Building in the Middle East, Allan Platt, Ed. (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, March 1992).

“Definitions of Weapon Systems and Technologies for Control,” in Questions on International Control of Weapon Transfers, Oxford Research Group, October 1991.

“The INF Treaty,” Case Study for the Henry L. Stimson Center Project on Treaty Ratification (Macmillan: 1991) excerpted in Encyclopedia of Disarmament and Arms Control (1992).

“High Technology Weapons in the Third World,” United Nations Journal of Disarmament, (October 1991).

“The INF Treaty,” in The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification, Michael Krepon and Dan Caldwell, Eds. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martins Press, l991), pp. 355-399

“U.S. Options for Countering the Proliferation of Ballistic Missiles: An Assessment of Possible Arms Control Measures,” in “Missile Proliferation: A Discussion of U.S. Objectives and Policy Options,” Robert Shuey, Ed. Congressional Research Service Report 90-120F, February 21, 1990.

“Public and Congressional Attitudes Toward On Site Inspection,” in Arms Control Verification and the New Role of On-Site Inspection, Lewis A. Dunn and Amy E. Gordon Eds. (Lexington Books, 1990).

“Conventional Arms Proliferation: The Case of Ballistic Missiles,” in New Technologies for Security and Arms Control: Threats and Promise, Eric H. Arnett, Ed. (Washington D.C.: A.A.A.S., 1989).

“The U.S. – Soviet Conventional Arms Transfer Negotiations,” in U.S. – Soviet Security Cooperation: Achievements, Failures, Lessons, Alexander L. George, Phillip J. Farley, and Alexander Dallin, Eds. (Oxford University Press, 1988).

“An International Perspective: Technology, Arms Races and the Distribution of Power,” in Defense Technology, Asa Clark, Ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).

“South Korea: an Ambitious Client of the United States,” in Defense Production in Developing Countries, Michael Brzoska and Thomas OhIson, Eds. (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1986).

“Negotiated Limitations on Arms Transfers: First Steps Toward Crisis Prevention?” (with Barry Blechman and Alan Platt) in Managing US-Soviet Rivalry: Problems of Crisis Prevention, Alexander George, Ed. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1983).

Articles

“Continuity from Ambiguity: The Real Role of Nuclear Posture Reviews in U.S. Nuclear Strategy”, (with Brian Radzinsky), War on the Rocks, February 19, 2018

“Policy or Party Platform? Making Sense of the Trump Nuclear Posture Review”, Texas National Security Review, February 13. 2018

“Cold Combat: the memoir of a nuclear convert”, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Vol. 73, May 2017

“New Dilemmas in Ethics, Technology, and War,” (with Antonia Chayes)Daedalus, Fall 2016.

“Exploiting the Challenges of Bioweapons Development,” The Non-Proliferation Review, February 2016.

“U.S. Domestic Politics and the U.S.-China Security Relationship,” (with Jackson S. Woods) Project of the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, December 2014.

Nolan, Janne, and Nicholas Roth,“Don’t Let Nuclear-Security Cooperation with Russia Lapse.” The National Interest, July 3, 2014.

“American and Iran: The Morning after a Nuclear Deal,” (with Navid Hassibi) The National Interest, May 23, 2014.

“Nuclear Statecraft, History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age”, The Nonproliferation Review, November 2013

“Nuclear Politics,” The Non-Proliferation Review, December 2013.

“The Ambivalence of the Nuclear Taboo”, Review of The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons since l945” by Nina Tannenwald, Cambridge University Press, The Nonproliferation Review, Vol.15, No. 3, 2008

“Nuclear War: Measuring the Unthinkable,” Science, Vol. 303, No. 5665, pp. 1772 – 1773, March 19, 2004.

“Arms and the Man; A Memoir of the U.N.’s search for WMD’s in Iraq,” review of Disarming Iraq, by Hans Blix, The Washington Post, Book World, T03, pp. 1, March 14, 2004.

“Non-Proliferation Norms,” Journal of Political Psychology, Fall 2012.

“The Nuclear Taboo,” The Non-Proliferation Review, August 2008.

“The Bureaucracy of Deterrence,” (with James Holmes) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 40-43, 55-58, March 12, 2008.

“U.S. and Soviet Proxy War in Afghanistan, 1989 – 1992: Prisoners of Our Preconceptions?,” Report of the Working Group on Discourse, Dissent and Strategic Surprise, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, November 15, 2005.

“The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979: Failure of Intelligence or of the Policy Process?,” Report of the Working Group on Discourse, Dissent and Strategic Surprise, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, September 2005.

“The 1998 Terrorist Bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania: Failures of Intelligence or Policy Priorities?,” Report of the Working Group, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, March 2005.

“Iran: Intelligence Failure or Policy Stalemate?,” Report of the Working Group, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, November 2004.

“Render Unto Caesar: Bureaucracy and Nonproliferation After the Iraq War,” (with James Holmes), The Fletcher Forum, November 2003.

“Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Future of Nonproliferation,” (with James Holmes), The Monitor, Fall 2003, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 7-9.

“Mortgaging Security for Economic Gain: U.S. Arms Policy in an Insecure World,” (with Bill Keller), International Studies Perspectives, 2001.