William W. Newmann, PhD

Associate Professor

 

L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs

Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Room 218 Scherer Hall

Box 842028, 923 West Franklin Street

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA 23284-2028

phone (804) 828-8038

fax (804) 827-1275

wnewmann@vcu.edu

home page: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~wnewmann/index.htm

 

Dr. Newmann has been teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He also holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in Political Science from Drew University. His research interests include U.S. foreign policy, national security and defense policy decision making, the U.S. presidency, terrorism and homeland security and Asian government and politics. 

 

Dr. Newmann teaches the following courses at VCU:

Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness 301 Terrorism (POLI 367/CRJS 367)

Political Science 105: International Relations (INTL 105) Summer 2000 (includes simulation)

Political Science 105: International Relations (INTL 105) Fall 2008

Political Science 308: U.S. Presidency

Political Science 355: Asian Governments and Politics (INTL 355)

Political Science 361: Issues in World Politics (INTL 361)

Political Science 362: International Organizations and Institutions (INTL 362)

Political Science 363: U.S. Foreign Policy (INTL 363)

Political Science 365: International Political Economy (INTL 365)

Political Science 468: Seminar in Comparative Foreign Policy, Writing Intensive (INTL 468)

 

For information about the new Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness major 

For information on Graduate School funding

 

Links that may be of interest

Links to resources on International Relations

Links to resources on foreign policy and national security

Links to resources on US-China-Taiwan relations

Links to resources on Biological and Chemical weapons

Links to resources on Terrorism and Homeland Security

Links to resources on nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and missile defense

World News Network is an excellent site with links to newspaper articles from all over the world, indexed by region and subject

The International Crisis Group is a non-profit organization that analyzes and publishes reports on social, political, and economic issues all over the globe

Global Security.Org (excellent resources for international diplomatic, military, and political issues

Federation of American Scientists (FAS): Non-profit organization that watches over world military trends

Dave Leip’s Atlas of US Presidential Elections (super data on voting and outcomes; the best easy to use source for this nationwide and state by state).

 

Real Clear Politics (tracks all elections and key issues at state and federal level; an archive of info from all kinds of sources)

Fact Check.Org (The Annenberg Center’s non-partisan fact checker on political ads and candidate statements)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

Managing National Security Policy: The President and the Process (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, July 2003)

 

Peer-reviewed articles:

“The Structures of National Security Decision Making: Leadership, Institutions, and Politics in the Carter, Reagan, and GHW Bush Years,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 34, no. 2 (June 2004): 272-307.

"Reorganizing for National Security and Homeland Security," Public Administration Review 62, Special Issue (September 2002): 126-137.

"Causes of Change in National Security Processes: Carter, Reagan, and Bush Decision Making on Arms Control," Presidential Studies Quarterly 31, no. 1 (March 2001): 69-103.

"Active Engagement of the Intro. IR Student: A Simulation Approach," (with Judyth L. Twigg), PS: Political Science and Politics 33, no. 4 (December 2000): 835-842.

"Foreign Policy Decision Making, Garbage Cans, and Policy Shifts: The Eisenhower Administration and the 'Chances for Peace' Speech," American Review of Public Administration 28, no. 2 (June 1998): 187-212.

 

On-Line Publications:

"National Missile Defense and Deterrence: Stability is in the Eye of the Beholder." Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, Washington University in St. Louis

 

Book Chapters:

"Terrorism is the Most Significant Threat Faced by the U.S. in the 21st Century: Pro and Con." in Tom Lansford and Robert P. Watson, eds., Debating the War on Terror (Kendall-Hunt), 2003.

"International Institutions of the Asia-Pacific Region: ASEAN, ARF, and APEC," in Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: International Organization and the 21st Century, Wayne Lesperance and Tom Lansford, eds., (Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing), 2000.

"Intervention in the New World Order: United States Use of Force in Latin America and the Persian Gulf," in Regional Conflicts: The Challenge to US-Russian Cooperation, James E. Goodby, ed., (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1995, 132-156.

"History Accelerates: The Diplomacy of Cooperation and Fragmentation," in The Limited Partnership: Building a Russian-US Security Community, James E. Goodby and Benoit Morel, eds., (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1993, 25-54.

"Building a Eurasian-Atlantic Community: Cooperative Management of the Military Transition," (with Judyth L. Twigg), in The Limited Partnership, Goodby and Morel, eds., 224-248.

"Some Limits on Cooperation and Transparency: Operational Security and the Use of Force," in The Limited Partnership, Goodby and Morel, eds., 289-305.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED

Midwest Political Science Association, April 2008, presented a paper entitled “Hegemonic Competition, Hegemonic Disruption and the Current War”

 

Stanley Foundation and Americans for Informed Democracy, “Young Global Leaders Peace and Security Summit,” October 2007, presentation on The US in the World: Redefining Major Power Relations

 

Oxford University Roundtable, August 2006, presented a paper entitled “Ideological and Hegemonic Conflict in the Post-9/11 World,”

 

American Society for Public Administration Annual Meeting, March 2007, presented a paper entitled, “A Strategic Approach to the Current War: Neorealism, Ideology, and Hegemony”

 

Midwest Political Science Association, April 2007, presented a paper entitled, “A Strategic Approach to the Current War: Neorealism, Ideology, and Hegemony”

 

Hofstra University 11th Presidential Conference, “William Jefferson Clinton: The New Democrat from Hope,” November 2005, presented a paper entitled

“Presidential Involvement in Foreign Policy Decision Making: The Search for Consensus and Decision in the Clinton Administration”

International Studies Association South—Annual Meeting, October 2002, presented a paper entitled" Reorganizing for National Security and Homeland Security"

International Studies Association South—Annual Meeting, October 2001, presented a paper entitled: "National Missile Defense and Deterrence: Stability is in the Eye of the Beholder."

American Political Science Association—Annual Meeting, August/September 2001, paper entitled: "National Missile Defense and Strategic Doctrine: The Impact on Deterrence." (unable to present due to illness)

International Studies Association--Annual Meeting, Washington DC, March 1999, presented paper entitled: "Liberal Democracy, Soft Authoritarianism, and Theocracy: Domestic Ideologies and International Conflict."

American Political Science Association--Annual Meeting, August/September 1997, presented paper entitled: "Eisenhower's Management of Bureaucratic Conflict: A Synthesis of Decision Making Models."

International Studies Association--Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 1997, presented paper entitled: "Bureaucratic Politics, Presidential Management, and Garbage Cans: Decision Making in the Eisenhower Administration."

International Studies Association--Northeast Region Annual Conference, Boston, November 1996, presented paper entitled: "Garbage Can Decision Making Processes in the Eisenhower Administration."

American Political Science Association--Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 1996, presented paper entitled: "The Dynamics of Foreign Policy Decision Making: Presidential Management of Bureaucratic Conflict"

International Studies Association--Annual Meeting, San Diego, April 1996, presented paper entitled: "The United Nations Operation in Somalia: Mixing Collective Security and Peacekeeping."

Conference on "Engagement and Disengagement: New Directions in U.S. Foreign Policy," College Park, Maryland, November 1995, presented paper entitled: "The United States and the United Nations: Some Lessons from Somalia."

International Studies Association--South Region Annual Conference, Atlanta, October 1995, presented paper entitled: "The United Nations Operation in Somalia: Mixing Collective Security and Peacekeeping."

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 1995, presented paper entitled: "The Dynamics of Foreign Policy Decision Making: Presidential Management of Bureaucratic Conflict."

International Peace Academy, United Nations, Conference on "Conflict in the States of Central Europe and the Former USSR: In Search of Response," Baden, Austria, July 1992, co-rapporteur.

Carnegie Mellon University/Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Workshop on Confidence and Security Building Measures, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1991, presented research on "Extending the Stockholm and Vienna Agreements to the Continental United States and Soviet Union East of the Urals," "United States Use of Force: Decision Making and the Limits to Cooperation and Transparency during Interventions in Grenada, Panama and Iraq," and "Institutions for Cooperative Security."

Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY, Study Group on Conventional Defense and Arms Control in Europe, several sessions, 1987, rapporteur for sessions on "Issues of the Conventional Military Balance in Europe" and "Conventional Arms Control."

 

 

AWARDS

American Political Science Association

            Leonard D. White Award for the Best Dissertation in Public Administration, 1999-2000

Presidential Studies Quarterly journal

             Best Article 2001 for "Causes of Change in National Security Processes: Carter, Reagan, and Bush Decision Making on Arms Control," Presidential Studies Quarterly 31, no. 1 (March 2001)

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Member, American Political Science Association and APSA Presidency Research Group
  • Member, International Studies Association