White Burkett Miller Professor of History (1998)

Professor

Modern world, 20th century US, American foreign policy

On Leave: Fall 2009

Office Hours: MW 11:15 - 1:00

Office: RAN 108

Phone: 924-6382

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: zelikowvirginia.edu

Professor Zelikow received his baccalaureate degree from the University of Redlands, a law degree from the University of Houston, and his master's and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He taught for the Navy and served as a career foreign service officer at State and on the White House/NSC staff before leaving government service to join the faculty at Harvard University (1991-1998). Since coming to Virginia, he has also directed the University's Miller Center of Public Affairs (1998-2005) and directed three bipartisan commissions, including the 9/11 Commission (2003-2004). His most recent government service was as the Counselor of the Department of State, a deputy to Secretary Rice, from 2005 to 2007. He is currently a member of the board for the global development program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Books

• Dealing with Dictators: Dilemmas of U.S. Diplomacy and Intelligence Analysis, 1945-1990
  (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006), 227 pp. (co-edited with Ernest May)
  http://www.amazon.com/Dealing-Dictators-Diplomacy-Intelligence-International/dp/0262633248
• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
  Upon the United States (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office and New York:
  W.W. Norton, 2004), 567 pp. (executive director of Commission)
  http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/index.htm
• Protecting America’s Freedom in the Information Age: A Report of the Markle Foundation Task
  Force, October 2002, 173 pp. (principal drafter of the Task Force report) http://www.markle.org/markle_programs/policy_for_a_networked_society/national_security/projects/taskforce_national_security.php#report2
• Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy -- The Great Crises, July-October 1962, Volumes One, Two and Three (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001))(General Editor for all three volumes; also principal editor for Volume Two with Timothy Naftali, and principal editor for Volume Three with Ernest May)
  http://www.amazon.com/Presidential-Recordings-Kennedy-Volumes-Crises/dp/039304954X
• American Military Strategy: Memos to a President, An Aspen Policy Book (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001), 206 pp. (editor)
  http://www.amazon.ca/American-Military-Strategy-Memos-President/dp/0393977110
• To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process: The Report of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, (also known as the Carter-Ford Commission) August 2001, 106 pp. (principal drafter of the Commission report), also published in a complete edition that includes the task force studies (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002)
  http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2002/to_assure_pride.aspx
• America and the Balkans: Memos to a President, An Aspen Policy Book (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), 134 pp. (edited with Robert Zoellick)
  http://www.amazon.com/America-Balkans-Robert-Zoellick/dp/0393976270
• America and Russia: Memos to a President, An Aspen Policy Book (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), 187 pp. (edited with Robert Zoellick)
  http://www.amazon.com/America-Russia-President-Robert-Zoellick/dp/0393975533
• America and the East Asian Crisis: Memos to a President, An Aspen Policy Book (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), 171 pp. (edited with Robert Zoellick)
  http://www.amazon.com/America-East-Asian-Crisis-President/dp/0393975525
• Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, Second Edition (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999), 405 pp (with Graham Allison)
  http://www.amazon.com/Essence-Decision-Explaining-Missile-Crisis/dp/0321013492
• America and the Muslim Middle East: Memos to a President, An Aspen Policy Book (Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 1998), 194 pp (edited with Robert Zoellick)
  http://www.amazon.com/America-Muslim-Middle-East-President/dp/0898432391/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220632837&sr=8-1
• The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997), 724 pp, and a revised Concise Edition (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2002), 512 pp. (both with Ernest May)
  http://www.amazon.com/Kennedy-Tapes-Inside-Missile-Concise/dp/0393322599/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220632991&sr=8-1
• Why People Don’t Trust Government (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 320 pp (edited with Joseph Nye, Jr. & David King), also published in Japanese (Tokyo: Eiji Shuppan, 2002)
  http://www.amazon.com/Why-People-Dont-Trust-Government/dp/0674940571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220633204&sr=1-1
• "American Intelligence and the World Economy," monograph for In From the Cold: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Future of U.S. Intelligence (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1996), pp. 134-262 (also a co-author of the task force report)
  http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Report-Twentieth-Century-Intelligence/dp/0870783920/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220633311&sr=1-4
• Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), 528 pp (with Condoleezza Rice), also published in German as Sternstunde der Diplomatie (Berlin: Propyläen/Ullstein, 1997)
  http://www.amazon.com/Germany-Unified-Europe-Transformed-Statecraft/dp/0674353250
• Cooperative Denuclearization: From Pledges to Deeds, CSIA Studies in International Security No. 2 (Cambridge: Center for Science and International Affairs, 1993), 293 pp (edited with Graham Allison, Ashton Carter, and Steven Miller)
  http://www.amazon.com/Cooperative-Denuclearization-Pledges-Deeds/dp/B000K5VFX6

Articles, Chapters, Case Studies

• “An Open, Civilized World,” The American Interest, Vol. 4 no. 1 (September/October 2008), pp. 16-31 (with Ernest May)
  http://www.the-american-interest.com/ai2/article.cfm?Id=460&MId=21
• “Turning Points in the Cold War: German Unification,” in Turning Points in Ending the Cold War, ed. Kiron K. Skinner (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2008), pp. 229-254 (with Condoleezza Rice)
  http://media.hoover.org/documents/978-0-8179-4632-6_229.pdf
• “Legal Policy for a Twilight War,” Houston Journal of International Law, Vol. 30, no. 1 (Fall 2007), pp. 89-109 
• “The United States, the End of the Cold War, and After,” in American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, ed. Robert L. Beisner & Kurt Hanson, Vol. 2 (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2d ed., 2003), pp. 1861-1880
  http://books.google.com/books?id=rCQsQdqFyMYC
• “Biological Security & Public Health: In Search of a Global Treatment,” A Report from the Aspen Strategy Group (Queenstown, MD: Aspen Institute, 2003), 64 pp. (edited with Kurt Campbell)
  http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/apps/ka/ec/product.asp?c=huLWJeMRKpH&b=667387&en=pwJWI6OUJiJSI7NSJcLPK7M2LnLSK9O0ItL3KkNaKAJ&ProductID=173646
• “The Transformation of National Security,” The National Interest, No. 71 (Spring 2003), pp. 17- 28; also published as “Les fondements de la nouvelle politique américaine de sécurité,” Commentaire, Vol. 26, No. 102 (2003), pp. 261-272
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22828673_ITM
• “The United States, the Cold War, and the Post-Cold War Order,” in From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century, ed. Paul Kennedy & William I.. Hitchcock (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 159-84 http://books.google.com/books?id=9ltvaFbwYxIC&dq=Paul+Kennedy+From+War+to+Peace&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=O8xWwO_4t7&sig=RR-MbuE6b0b7BIskJ6kH9YsFsZ8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result
• “The Kennedy Tapes: Past and Future,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, no. 4 (December 2000), pp. 791-796 (with Ernest May)
  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120702482/PDFSTART
• “American Engagement in Asia,” in America’s Asian Alliances, ed. Robert D. Blackwill & Paul Dibb (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000), pp. 19-30
  http://books.google.com/books?id=zIXDC-1xtCMC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=Zelikow+America's+Engagement+in+Asia&source=bl&ots=iSmWm8bxdd&sig=n7gBpaQAho2JQEJlySgXPl8CFDM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA19,M1
• “American Policy and Cuba, 1961-1963,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 24, no. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 317-334
  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119040059/PDFSTART
• “History and Theory in the Work of Ernest R. May,” in Rethinking International Relations: Ernest R. May and the Study of World Affairs, ed. Akira Iriye (Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1999), pp. 366-370
• “American Policy and the War for Kosovo,” Miller Center Report, Vol. 15 no. 2 (Summer 1999), pp. 6-13
  http://webstorage1.mcpa.virginia.edu/library/mc/mcreport/vol15_num2.pdf
• “Großes kleinmütiges Europa?: Eine amerikanische Sichtweise,” Internationale Politik, Vol. 54, no. 5 (May 1999), pp. 68-74
• “The Statesman in Winter: Kissinger on the Ford Years,” (essay on Henry Kissinger, “Years of Renewal”), Foreign Affairs, Vol. 78 no. 3 (May-June 1999), pp. 123-128
  http://fullaccess.foreignaffairs.org/19990501fareviewessay985/philip-zelikow/the-statesman-in-winter-kissinger-on-the-ford-years.html
• “Catastrophic Terrorism,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 77 no. 6 (November-December 1998), pp. 80-94 (with Ashton Carter and John Deutch) http://fullaccess.foreignaffairs.org/19981101faessay1434/ashton-b-carter-john-deutch-philip-zelikow/catastrophic-terrorism-tackling-the-new-danger.html
• “Camelot Confidential,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 22, no. 4 (Fall 1998), pp. 642-653 (with Ernest May)
  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119116999/PDFSTART
• “Treasury and the Mexican Shock,” Case C15-98-1422.0, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1998) (with Kirsten Lundberg) http://www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/casetitle.asp?caseNo=1422.0
• “George C. Marshall and the Moscow CFM Meeting of 1947,” Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 8, no. 2 (July 1997), pp. 97-124 http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/816173_731199568_783142215.pdf
• “American Economic Intelligence: Past Practice and Future Principles,” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 12, no. 1 (January 1997), pp. 164-177, also published in Eternal Vigilance?: 50 Years of the CIA, ed. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones & Christopher Andrew (London: Frank Cass, 1997), pp. 164-177 http://books.google.com/books?id=GhOn2Wto3gcC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=Zelikow+American+Economic+Intelligence&source=bl&ots=LQbDlftqUP&sig=j6MQrOVLZwYQd4DQIDiJdMlyHMI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA164,M1
• "Virtual Visions, Past and Future," in Nuclear Weapons In A Transformed World: The Challenge of Virtual Nuclear Arsenals, ed. Michael J. Mazarr (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997), pp. 359-68
  http://books.google.com/books?id=WcgZ00ILrKEC&pg=RA2-PA359&lpg=RA2-PA359&dq=Mazarr+Virtual+Visions&source=bl&ots=DQv3LzEOAZ&sig=Sgn6HQjYmrjOau8pl0UzSl_Pr5M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PRA2-PA359,M1
• "Die USA zwischen Deutschland und der Sowjetunion: 1947 und 1989," in Deutschland in Europa: Nationale Interessen und internationale Ordnung im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Gottfried Niedhart, Detlef Junker & Michael W. Richter (Mannheim: Palatium Verlag, 1997), pp. 285-316
• "The Masque of Institutions," Survival: The IISS Quarterly, Vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 1996), pp. 6-18; also published in NATO's Transformation: The Changing Shape of the Atlantic Alliance, ed. Philip H. Gordon (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefeld, 1997), pp. 77-89
  http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/959281_731199568_791152176.pdf
• "Persuading a President: Jimmy Carter and American Troops in Korea," Case CR1-96-1319.0, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1996) (with Joe Wood)
  http://www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/casetitle.asp?caseNo=1319.
• "American Security Policy: Toward a New Entente with Russia," in Aspen Strategy Group, Securing Peace in the New Era: Politics in the Former Soviet Union and the Challenge to American Security (Queenstown, Md.: Aspen Institute, 1994), pp. 37-70
• "The United States and Russia," in Damage Limitation or Crisis?: Russia and the Outside World, ed. Robert D. Blackwill & Sergei A. Karaganov, CSIA Studies in International Security No. 5 (Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1994), pp. 307-28
• "Foreign Policy Engineering: From Theory to Practice and Back Again," International Security, Vol. 18, no. 4 (Spring 1994), pp. 143-71
  http://www.jstor.org/stable/2539180
• “Prelude to War: U.S. Policy Toward Iraq, 1988-1990," Case C16-94-1245.0, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1994) (with Zachary Karabell)
  http://www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/casetitle.asp?caseNo=1245.0
• "Beyond Boris Yeltsin," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, no. 1 (America and the World issue, January/February 1994), pp. 44-55
  http://fullaccess.foreignaffairs.org/19940101faessay8549/philip-zelikow/beyond-boris-yeltsin.html
• "Offensive Military Options," in New Nuclear Nations: Consequences for U.S. Policy, ed. Robert Blackwill & Albert Carnesale (New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993), pp. 162-95
• "Policing Northern Ireland (A): A Question of Primacy," Case C16-93-1229.0, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1993) http://www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/casetitle.asp?caseNo=1229.0
• "Policing Northern Ireland (B): A Question of Balance," Case C16-93-1230.0, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1993) http://www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/casetitle.asp?caseNo=1230.0
• "Policing Northern Ireland: Teaching Note," Case C16-93-1230.2, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1993) http://www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/casetitle.asp?caseNo=1230.2
• "Preventing nuclear proliferation in the former Soviet Union," in United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Disarmament Topical Papers 10: Non-Proliferation and Confidence-building Measures in Asia and the Pacific (New York: United Nations, 1992), pp. 59-65
• "The new Concert of Europe," Survival: The IISS Quarterly, Vol. 34, no. 2 (Summer 1992): pp. 12-30; longer version also published in Strategic Stability In A Rapidly Changing World, ed. David Holloway (Stanford University: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1992)
• "The Future of Non-Strategic Nuclear Forces and Opportunities for Cooperative Understandings with the New Governments in the Soviet Union," Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project Occasional Paper, Harvard University, August 1991
• "The United States Role in European Security," in The Helsinki Process and the Future of Europe, ed. Samuel Wells, Jr. (Washington, DC: Wilson Center Press, 1990), pp. 107-118
• "The United States and the Use of Force: A Historical Summary," in Democracy, Strategy, and Vietnam: Implications for American Policymaking, ed. George Osborn, Asa Clark, et al (Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1987), pp. 31-81
• "Force Without War, 1975-82," Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 7, no. 1 (March 1984): pp. 29-54
• "Visions of the Future War in Europe," Fletcher Forum, Vol. 7, no. 2 (Winter 1983): pp. 313-321
• "The RICO Statute: The Business Client as Racketeer," Texas Bar Journal, Vol. 45 (1982): pp.159-165 (with David Berg)
• "The Constitutionality of Imposing the Death Penalty for Felony Murder," Houston Law Review, Vol. 15, no. 2 (1978), pp. 356-379 (cited by Justice O'Connor in Supreme Court case which later decided this issue)
• "Texas Redefines the Intent to Kill," National Journal of Criminal Defense, Vol. 3 (1977), pp. 317-326

Reviews and Commentary

• “For the Long Haul,” The American Interest, Vol. 3 no. 4 (March-April 2008), pp. 22-25
• “Opening Address: The Conflicts that Divide Us,” Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, 2007 U.S.-Islamic World Forum (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Saban Center, 2007), pp. 41-46
• “The Plan that Moved Pyongyang,” Washington Post, February 20, 2007, p. A13
• Capsule reviews of five books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 81 no. 3 (May-June 2002), pp. 164-166
• Capsule reviews of five books and articles, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 81 no. 2 (March-April 2002), pp. 184-186
• Capsule reviews of four books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 81 no. 1 (January-February 2002), pp. 213-214
• Capsule reviews of five books and articles, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80 no. 6 (November-December 2001), pp. 181-183
• Capsule reviews of six books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80 no. 5 (September-October 2001), pp. 155-157
• Letter to the Editor, “Uniform Voting Rules,” (re the National Commission on Federal Election Reform), New York Times, August 10, 2001, p. A22
• Capsule reviews of six books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80 no. 3 (May-June 2001), pp. 138-140
• Capsule reviews of five books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80 no. 2 (March-April 2001), pp. 175-177
• “Thirteen Days’ Is Accurate Where It Counts,” Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2001
• “Presidential Leadership: The Case of German Unification, 1989-1990,” in Report to the President-Elect 2000: Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency, ed. Center for the Study of the Presidency (Washington, DC: Center for the Study of the Presidency, 2000), pp. 217-219
• Capsule reviews of six books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 79 no. 6 (November-December 2000), pp. 180-182
• Letter to the Editor, “Hit Men” (re allegations of CIA involvement in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba), Foreign Affairs, Vol. 79 no. 6 (November-December 2000), pp. 199-200
• Capsule reviews of seven books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 79 no. 5 (September-October 2000), pp. 137-139
• Capsule reviews of six books and articles, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 79 no. 4 (July-August 2000), pp. 154-156
• Capsule reviews of six books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 79 no. 3 (May-June 2000), pp. 170-173
• Capsule reviews of six books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 79 no. 2 (March-April 2000), pp. 153-155
• “Edmund Morris and the Real Ronald Reagan,” Miller Center Report, Vol. 15 no. 3 (Fall 1999), pp. 12-16
• Capsule reviews of six books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 78 no. 6 (November-December 1999), pp. 149-151
• “Like Ike,” Washington Post, October 5, 1999, p. A17
• Capsule reviews of seven books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 78 no. 5 (September-October 1999), pp. 170-172
• Capsule reviews of eight books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 78 no. 4 (July-August 1999), pp. 133-136
• Capsule reviews of eight books, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 78 no. 3 (May-June 1999), pp. 137-139
• “After the Wall” (Review of Hans-Dietrich Genscher, “Rebuilding a House Divided”), New York Times Book Review, March 1, 1998, p. 33
• “White House Tapes: Extraordinary Treasures for Historical Research,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 28, 1997 (with Ernest May), pp. B4-B5
• “Presidential Tapes Need Listening Guide,” Newsday, November 12, 1997, p. A47 (with Ernest May)
• “A presidential time machine,” Boston Globe, November 10, 1997, p. A15 (with Ernest May)
• "Congress Should Get Its Way," New York Times, November 18, 1995, p. 21
• "NATO Expansion Wasn't Ruled Out," International Herald Tribune, August 10, 1995, p. 8
• "Ban Private Military Groups," New York Times, May 7, 1995, p. E15 (with Morris Dees)
• "But Did C.I.A. Misjudge Soviet Economy?," New York Times, April 17, 1995, p. A16
• "Can Talks with North Korea Succeed? False Hope, Once Again," New York Times, June 24, 1994, p. A27
• "One on One," Defense News, April 4-10, 1994, p. 38
• "They Whistled 'Dixie' in Yiddish," Newsday, February 8, 1994, p. 94
• Review of Tucker & Hendrickson, "The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose," in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 108, no. 1 (Spring 1993), pp. 163-65
• "Nuclear Weapons: Looking Back and Looking Forward," Asahi Shimbun [Japan], December 11, 1992
• "Debating Defense," San Diego Union-Tribune, October 18, 1992, p. C1
• "Building A New World Order," The World & I, Vol. 7 (July 1992): pp. 113-119 (with Robert Blackwill)
• "The Soviet Arsenal and the Mistaken Calculus of Caution," Washington Post, March 29, 1992, p. C3 (with Graham Allison and Ashton Carter)