Center on International Cooperation

Bruce Jones, PhD.

Director and Senior Fellow

Email: bruce.jones @ nyu.edu

Topical Expertise: Global Order and Global Governance; Emerging Powers; International Security); United Nations; Peacekeeping; Post-Conflict Operations;

Geographical Expertise: Middle East

Dr. Bruce Jones is Director and Senior Fellow of the NYU Center on International Cooperation, and Senior Fellow and Director of the Managing Global Insecurity Program at the Brookings Institution. Currently, he is also the Senior External Advisor for the World Bank’s World Development Report 2011 on Conflict, Security and Development, and in March 2010 was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General as a member of the Senior Advisory Group to guide the Review of International Civilian Capacities.

Dr. Jones’ research focuses on US policy on global order and transnational threats; on multilateral institutions in peace and security issues; on the role of the United Nations in conflict management and international security; and on global peacekeeping, post-conflict operations and fragile state engagements.

Prior to assuming the Directorship of the Center, Dr. Jones served in several capacities at the United Nations. He was Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary-General during the UN reform effort leading up to the World Summit 2005, and in the same period was Acting Secretary of the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee. In 2004-2005, he was Deputy Research Director of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. From 2000-2002 he was Special Assistant to the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process; and held assignments in the UN Interim Mission in Kosovo, and in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Dr. Jones has been interviewed by or cited in US and international media, including the New York Times, LA Times, Globe and Mail, BBC, CNN, Fox, NPR, and Al Jazeera.

Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics; and was Hamburg Fellow in Conflict Prevention at Stanford University. He is co-author with Carlos Pascual and Stephen Stedman of Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats (Brookings Press, 2009); co-editor with Shepard Forman of Cooperating for Peace and Security (Cambridge University Press, 2009); author of Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of Failures; Series Editor of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations (Lynne Reinner) and author of several book chapters and journal articles on US strategy, global order, the Middle East, peacekeeping, post-conflict peacebuilding, and strategic coordination.

He is Consulting Professor at Stanford University, Adjunct Faculty at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, and Professor by Courtesy at the NYU Department of Politics.

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Publications

Shaky Foundations: An Assessment of the UN's Rule of Law Support Agenda with Camino Kavanagh
November 2011

Obama at the United Nations Take 3: Where Cooperation and Conflict Clash
September 2011

World Development Report 2011 on Conflict, Security and Development- World Development Report Core Team

World Development Report 2011 on Conflict, Security and Development

Largest Minority Shareholder in Global Order LLC: The Changing Balance of Influence and U.S. Strategy
March 2011

Brookings Policy Paper: Largest Minority Shareholder in Global Order LLC: The Changing Balance of Influence and U.S. Strategy

Foreign Policy Article: Managing a Changing World

Video: Emerging Nations Impact U.S. Influence Abroad

Event: Shifting Balance of Power: Has the U.S. Become the Largest Minority Shareholder in the Global Order?

On Libya, the Contours of the Emerging International Semi-Order by Bruce Jones for Broookings.com

On the Libya No-Fly Zone, Put the UN Security Council Front Forward
March 2011

CIC director Bruce Jones discusses the possibility of a no-fly zone in Libya in his latest piece for Brookings.com.

Read the full articlce: On the Libya No-Fly Zone, Put the UN Security Council Front Forward

Bruce Jones discusses the uprising in Egypt on The Daily.

Bruce Jones discusses Mubarak's fall from power on The Daily.

New Threats Demand a New Global Security Forum, Brookings, February 2011.

New Tools for New Times, World Politics Review, January 2011.

Making Multilateralism Work: How the G-20 Can Help the United Nations, Policy Analysis Brief, The Stanley Foundation, March 2010.

New Members Make for a Real Security Council at Last,World Politics Review, October 2010.

The United Nations and International Cooperation :Web Chat, Brookings, September 2010.

The United Nations' Reformer-in-Chief, Brookings, September 2010.

The coming clash? Europe and US multilateralism under Obama in Alvaro de Vasconcelos and Marcin Zaborowski (eds.), The Obama Moment. European and American perspectives, European Union Institute for Security Studies, 2009.

Indispensible Nation and Insufficient Institution; or Insufficient Nation and Indispensible Institution? US Attitudes to the UN since the end of the Cold Warin Gaiko Forum, 2009

Building on Brahimi: Peacekeeping in an Era of Strategic Uncertainty, with Richard Gowan and Jake Sherman, Center on International Cooperation, April 2009

Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an era of Transnational Threats. With Carlos Pascual and Stephen Stedman, Brookings Press, 2009.

Cooperating for Peace and Security: The Evolution of Multilateral Security Arrangements since the end of the Cold War, with Shepard Forman and Richard Gowan (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2009.

The World's Deadliest Spot, The Washington Times, Bruce Jones and Mike O'Hanlan, April 29th 2009.

Strategic coordination of international engagement in Iraq, in David Malone (ed.) Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict.Lynne Rienner, 2007.

The Security Council in Arab-Israeli Wars, in Adam Roberts et al (eds.) The Security Council and War. Oxford University Press, 2008

Keeping Middle East Peace? Co-authored with Andrew Hart, in International Peacekeeping, Volume 15, 102-117, 2008.

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006. Series Editor. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2006-2010.

Due to personal relationships, Dr. Jones has recused himself from CIC’s policy contacts with the US Mission to the United Nations, and from decisions related to research funding from US government sources.

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