Bruce W. Jentleson is the William Preston Few Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He also is a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Professor Jentleson has served in a number of US foreign policy positions, most recently as Senior Advisor to the State Department Policy Planning Director (2009-11) and Chair of a Hillary Clinton 2016 foreign policy working group.
In 2015-16 he was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress.
He received the 2018 American Political Science Association International Security Section Joseph J. Kruzel Award for distinguished public service. He is Co-Director of the Bridging the Gap project promoting greater policy relevance among academics.
His most recent book is The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from 20th Century Statesmanship (W.W. Norton, 2018). His current book is Economic Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Recent articles include Right-Sizing American Foreign Policy: A Progressive Approach, (Democracy: Journal of Ideas), That Post-Liberal International Order: Some Core Characteristics (Lawfare), and Geopolitical Globalization: Pluralization of Diplomacy and the Limits on Great Powers’ Power (in progress).