Dr. Bruce Jones is Director and Senior Fellow of the NYU Center on International Cooperation and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Dr. Jones’ research focuses on US policy on transnational threats and international cooperation; 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 2004-5, 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 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); author of Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of Failures; co-editor with Shepard Forman of Cooperating for Peace and Security (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); Series Editor of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations (Lynne Reinner) and author of several book chapters and journal articles on the Middle East, Central Africa, 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.

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.

Selected Publications:

• The Worlds's Deadliest Spot, The Washington Times, Bruce Jones and Mike O'Hanlan
• Cooperating for Peace and Security: The evolution of multilateral security arrangements since the end of the Cold War, Ed. with Shepard Forman. Cambridge: Forthcoming.
• “Strategic coordination of international engagement in Iraq”, in David Malone (ed.) Iraq: Options Beyond Transition. Forthcoming: Oxford University Press.
• “The Security Council in Arab-Israeli Wars”, in Adam Roberts et al (eds.) The Security Council and War. Forthcoming: Oxford University Press.
• “Lebanon: A Case Study in US and UN policy.” Brookings Institution, forthcoming.
• “Keeping Middle East Peace?” Co-authored with Andrew Hart. International Peacekeeping, Volume 15 (2008): 102-117.
• Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2007. Series Editor. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2007.
• Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2006. Series Editor. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2006.
• 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.
• A More Secure World: Our Common Responsibility. Report of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. New York: UN, September 2004. Co-authored with Stephen Stedman.

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