JOHN VAN OUDENAREN EDUCATION
Ph. D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983
A.B., Germanic Languages and Literature, summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1975
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director, Center for the Book, and Acting Director, World Digital Library (www.wdl.org), The Library of Congress, Washington, 2018-
Director, Scholarly and Educational Programs, and Acting Director, World Digital Library, The Library of Congress, 2015-2018
Director, World Digital Library, The Library of Congress, 2005-2015
Chief, European Division, The Library of Congress, 1996-2005
Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, Washington, 1995-1996
Director, RAND European-American Center for Policy Analysis (RAND Europe), Delft, The Netherlands, 1992-1995
Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, 1988-1992
Research Associate, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, 1987-1988
Member of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, Washington, 1985-1987
Associate Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, 1982-1985
Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1982
Consultant, RAND Corporation, Summer 1980, 1981
Intern, National Security Council, Summer 1979
Teaching Positions:
Adjunct Professor, BMW Center for German and European Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 2004-2005
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Adjunct Professor, Elliott School, George Washington University, 2001-2004
Adjunct Professor, School of International Service, American University, 2003-2004
Adjunct Professor, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1996-2000
Faculty Affiliate, RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, 1989-1992
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA, 1989
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Balance of power in 21st century Eurasia; U.S. foreign and security policy; European Union; U.S.-Russia relations; cultural and information policies of authoritarian states; digital libraries and digital research infrastructure; the Arctic
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES/HONORS
Council on Foreign Relations, 1999-present
International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era, Member of the Editorial Board, 2007-present
International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1993-2009
Academic Advisory Council, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2002-2008 (Chair, 2004-2008)
Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., 2003-2004
Council on Foreign Relations NATO Study Trip, Brussels-Macedonia-Kosovo-Prague, April 2002
Study Group Leader, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, “The Changing Face of Europe: U.S. Interests and NATO and EU Enlargement,” 2001-2003
Steering Committee Member, Conferences on “Ukraine’s Quest for Mature Nation Statehood,” The Library of Congress, 2000-2005
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Consultant, Web Course Development, “Introduction to the European Union,” University System of Georgia, 2000-2001
Herbert Quandt Foundation, Transatlantic Forum, 1995, 1999
Guest Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, 1985-2005
Daniel Lerner Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation, MIT Department of Political Science, 1983
Ford Foundation Fellowship for Dual Expertise in Soviet Studies and Arms Control, 1981-1982; 1980-1981
Earhart Foundation, Thesis Grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
Peer reviewer: Duke University Press (2013); Rowman and Littlefield Books (2010); Political Science Quarterly (2006); Palgrave Macmillan (2004, 2006); Contemporary Security Policy (2003); Amherst College Faculty Research Award Program (2003); Problems of Post-Communism (2002); United States Institute of Peace Grant Competition, (2000); Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowships (2000); Journal of Common Market Studies (1999); Journal of Cold War Studies (1999, 2001, 2010); International Politics (1999, 2001); Center for Strategic and International Studies (1998); International Negotiation (1998); United States Institute of Peace Press (1997); Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (1994); World Politics (1991); Columbia University Press (1988); Ford Foundation (1984, 1987)
PUBLICATIONS Books
European Foreign Policies: Does Europe Still Matter? (edited, with Ronald Tiersky). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010.
Uniting Europe: An Introduction to the European Union. Second edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
Uniting Europe: European Integration and the Post-Cold War World. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Détente in Europe: The Soviet Union and the West since 1953. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.
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Journal Articles
“After Brexit, America Must Let Go of ‘More Europe,’” The National Interest (online edition), June 29, 2016.
“Containing Europe,” The National Interest, No. 80 (Summer 2005), pp. 57-64.
“Transatlantic Bipolarity and the End of Multilateralism,” Political Science Quarterly 120, No. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 1-32.
“Unipolar versus Unilateral,” Policy Review, No. 124 (April-May 2004), pp. 1-13.
“Multilaterali nel mondo unipolare,” Aspenia, No. 25 (2004), pp. 50-61.
“What Is ‘Multilateral’?” Policy Review, No. 117 (February-March 2003), pp. 33-47.
“E Pluribus Confusio: Living with the EU’s Structural Incoherence,” The National Interest, No. 65 (Fall 2001), pp. 23-36. (Reprinted in Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, eds. International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues. New York: Longman, 2002.)
“The Limits of Conditionality: Nuclear Reactor Safety in Central and Eastern Europe, 1991-2001,” International Politics 38, No. 4 (December 2001), pp. 467-497.
“Die Neue Transatlantische Agenda," Internationale Politik 51, No. 5 (May 1996), pp. 49-52.
"Migrationsprobleme in der ehemaligen Sowjetunion – Eine politische Herausforderung," Internationale Politik 50, No. 11 (November 1995), pp. 57-64.
"European integration as seen from the United States," International Social Science Journal 44, No. 1 (February 1992), pp. 115-124. (Also published in French, Revue Internationale des Sciences Sociales 44, No. 1 (February 1992), pp. 99-111; and in Spanish, Revista Internacional de Ciencas Sociales 44, No. 1 (March 1992), pp. 99-110.)
"Die Sowjetunion und Osteuropa: Neue Erwartungen und alte Zwänge," Europa Archiv 43, No. 7 (April 1988), pp. 169-180.
"Die sowjetische Politik gegenüber Westeuropa: Einschätzungen von Entwicklungen im Atlantischen Bündnis," Europa Archiv 40, No. 4 (February 1985), pp. 89-98.
Book Chapters
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“European Integration: An Uncertain Prospect,” in Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones, eds. Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction, fifth edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015.
“Effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the UN Security Council in the last 20 years: a US perspective,” Joachim Krause and Natalino Ronzitti, eds. The EU, the UN and Collective Security. London: Routledge, 2012.
“European Integration: Progress and Uncertainty,” in Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones, eds. Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction, fourth edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011.
“From Atlantic Community to Atlantic Partnership and Beyond,” in Peter Schmidt, ed. A Hybrid Relationship: Transatlantic Security Cooperation beyond NATO. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008.
“The European Union: From Community to Constitution?” in Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones, eds. Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction, third edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
“EU Enlargement: The Return to Europe,” in Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones, eds. Europe Today A Twenty-First Century Introduction, third edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
“Policy toward the Extended Frontier: The Balkans and the NIS,” in Desmond Dinan and Maria Green Cowles, eds. Developments in the European Union, second edition. London: Palgrave, 2004.
“The Missing Atlantic Dimension,” in Graham Walker, ed. Independence in an Age of Empire: Assessing Unilateralism and Multilateralism. Halifax: Dalhousie University Press, 2004.
“The European Union: From Community to Constitution,” in Ronald Tiersky, ed. Europe Today: National Politics, Integration, and European Security, second edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
“EU Enlargement: The Return to Europe,” in Ronald Tiersky, ed. Europe Today: National Politics, Integration, and European Security, second edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
“Russia’s Elusive Place in Europe,” in Simon Serfaty, ed. The European Finality Debate and Its National Dimensions. Washington: CSIS Press, 2003.
"European Integration: A History of Three Treaties," in Ronald Tiersky, ed. Europe
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Today: National Politics, Integration, and European Security. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
"EU Enlargement and the 'Return to Europe'," in Ronald Tiersky, ed. Europe Today: National Politics, Integration, and European Security. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 1999.
"European Security Issues in the Coming Decade and Their Priority: An American Perspective," in David Albright, ed. Ukraine and European Security. New York: Macmillan, 1999.
"The EU and the Central and Eastern European States," in Desmond Dinan, ed. Encyclopedia of the European Union. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.
"Europe as Partner," in David C. Gompert and F. Stephen Larrabee, eds. Europe and America: A partnership for a new era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
"Preface," in Roger Benjamin, C.R. Neu, and Denise Quigley, eds. Balancing State Intervention: The Limits of Transatlantic Markets. New York: St. Martin's, 1994.
"Migration Pressures from the Former Soviet Union: Preliminary Results of a RAND Research Project," in Stelios Perrakis, ed. Immigration and the European Union. Athens: Hellenic Centre for European Studies, 1994.
"Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union," in Nanette Gantz and John Roper, eds. Towards a New Partnership: US-European Relations in the post-Cold War era. Paris: Institute for Security Studies, Western European Union, 1993. (Published in French as “L’Europe centrale et orientale et l’ex Union soviètique,” in Gantz and Roper, Vers un Nouveau Partenariat. Paris: Institut d’Etudes de Sécurité de l’UEO, 1993).
"Comments” [On the Relevance of the Marshall Plan], in Charles Wolf, Jr., ed. Promoting Democracy and Free Markets in Eastern Europe. Santa Monica: RAND, R- 4115-AID, 1991.
"American Perceptions of Soviet Aims," in Klaus Gottstein, ed. Mutual Perceptions of Long-range Goals: Can the United States and Soviet Union cooperate permanently? Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1991.
"Gorbachev and His Predecessors: The Two Faces of New Thinking," in Michael T. Clark and Simon Serfaty, eds. New Thinking and Old Realities: America, Europe, and Gorbachev's Russia. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1991.
"Nuclear Weapons in the 1990s and Beyond," in Patrick J. Garrity, ed. The Future of Nuclear Weapons. New York: Plenum (for the Center for National Security Studies, Los
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Alamos National Laboratory), 1991.
"The Soviet Union and Europe After the Wall," in La Politique Étrangère Sovietique à l'Aube des Années 90. Quebec: Centre Quebecois de Relations Internationales,1990.
"Die sowjetische USA-Politik," Bundesinstitut für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien, Sowjetunion 1988/1989 (yearbook of the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne, West Germany). Munich: Carl Hanser, 1989.
"Bipolarität als Struktur und politischer Handlungsrahmen," in Uwe Nerlich and Trutz Rendtorff, eds. Nukleare Abschreckung—Politische und ethische Interpretationen einer neuen Realität. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1989.
"The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: New Prospects and Old Dilemmas," in William E. Griffith, ed. The Opening Curtain: Central and Eastern Europe. Boulder: Westview, 1989.
"Conventional Arms Control in Europe: Soviet Policy and Objectives," in Uwe Nerlich and James A. Thomson, eds. Conventional Arms Control and the Security of Europe. Boulder: Westview, 1988.
"Extended Deterrence and Soviet Strategy," in Nanette C. Gantz, ed. Extended Deterrence and Arms Control. Santa Monica: RAND, R-3586-FF, 1988.
"Containment: Obsolete and Enduring Features," in Arnold L. Horelick, ed. U.S.-Soviet Relations: The Next Phase. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
"U.S.-West German Relations and the Soviet Problem," in Uwe Nerlich and James A. Thomson, eds. The Soviet Problem in American-German Relations. New York: Crane Russak, 1985.
"Soviet Assessments of Trends in the Alliance," in Harry Gelman, ed. The Future of Soviet Policy Toward Western Europe. Santa Monica: RAND, R-3254-FF/NATO, 1985.
"American Attitudes Toward the Soviet Union and Their Implications for the Atlantic Alliance," in Alan Platt, ed. The Atlantic Alliance: Perspectives from the Successor Generation. Santa Monica: RAND, R-3100, 1983.
"The Soviet Conception of Europe and Arms Negotiations," in Uwe Nerlich, ed. Soviet Power and Western Negotiation Policies, Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1983.
"Sowjetische Politik in Europa und Rüstungskontroll-verhandlungen," in Uwe Nerlich, ed. Sowjetische Macht und westliche Verhandlungspolitik. Baden: Nomos, 1982.
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"Economics and Energy," in Griffith, The Superpowers and Regional Tensions. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath & Co., 1982 (with William E. Griffith).
Reports and Research Monographs
“U.S.-EU Relations after Enlargement,” in Andreas Maurer, Kai-Olaf Lange, and Eugene Whitlock, eds. New Stimulus or Integration Backlash? EU Enlargement and Transatlantic Relations. Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 2004.
The Changing Face of Europe: EU Enlargement and Its Implications for Transatlantic Relations. Washington: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2003.
“The Limits of Conditionality: Nuclear Reactor Safety in Central and Eastern Europe, 1991-2001,” Occasional Papers Series, No. 62. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, East European Studies Program, March 2001.
Organizing for Enlargement: The EU’s IGC 2000. Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS Europe Program Report, December 1999.
“Ukraine, Germany and the EU,” in Richard W. Murphy, ed. Ukraine in Europe. Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1999.
"Sources of Conflict in Europe and the Former Soviet Union," in Zalmay Khalilzad and Ian O. Lesser, eds. Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century: Regional Futures and U.S. Strategy. Santa Monica: RAND, 1998.
Poland's Accession to the European Union: Outlook and Options. Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Occasional Papers in European Studies, August 1996.
Employment, Economic Development and Migration in Southern Europe and the Maghreb: Conference Proceedings, (editor). Santa Monica: RAND, CF-126-EAC, 1996.
Managing Safety In and Around Airports: Conference Proceedings, (editor). Santa Monica: RAND, CF-120, 1995.
Growth and Employment in Europe and North America: European and American Perspectives, (editor). Santa Monica: RAND, CF-116-A, 1994.
"The Tradition of Change in Soviet Foreign Policy," McNair Papers, No. 7. Washington: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 1990.
The Role of Shevardnadze and the MFA in the Making of Soviet Defense and Arms
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Control Policy. Santa Monica: RAND, R-3898-USDP, 1990.
Political Consultation Agreements in Soviet-West European Relations. Santa Monica: RAND, N-3090-RC, 1990.
Deterrence, War-fighting and Soviet Military Doctrine, Adelphi Papers 210. London: The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1986.
Soviet Policy Toward Western Europe: Objectives, Instruments, Results. Santa Monica: RAND, R-3310-AF, 1986.
The Soviet Union and the Socialist and Social Democratic Parties of Western Europe. Santa Monica: RAND, N-2400-AF, 1986.
Interviews by Soviet Officials in the Western Media: Two Case Studies. Santa Monica: RAND, R-3328-FF/RC, 1985.
The Urengoi Pipeline: Prospects for Soviet Leverage. Santa Monica: RAND, R-3207, 1984.
West German Policymaking and NATO Nuclear Strategy. Santa Monica: RAND, R- 3198-AF, 1984.
"Exploiting 'Fault Lines' in the Soviet Empire: An Overview," RAND Papers Series, P- 7012. Santa Monica: RAND, 1984.
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Options for the 1980s and Beyond. Santa Monica: RAND, R-3136-AF, 1984.
The Soviet Union and Second-Area Actions. Santa Monica: RAND, N-2035-FF/RC, 1983.
U.S. Leadership Perceptions of the Soviet Problem Since 1945. Santa Monica: RAND, R- 2843-NA, 1982.
“Potential Threats to U.S.-Soviet Deterrence: The Political Dimension,” RAND Papers Series, P-6826. Santa Monica: RAND, 1982.
The United States and Europe: Issues to Resolve. Mount Kisco, NY: Seven Springs Center, 1981.
The "Leninist Peace Policy" and Western Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Center for International Studies, 1980.
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Reviews
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Madam Prime Minister: Living a Life in Power and Politics (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), in Washington Post Book World, August 11, 2002.
Günter Bischof and Saki Dockrill, eds. Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000), in Journal of Cold War Studies 4, No. 3 (Fall 2001), pp. 144-146.
Francesca Gori and Silvio Pons, eds. The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), in Journal of Cold War Studies 1, No. 3 (Fall 1999), pp. 180-182.
Larry Neal and Daniel Barbezat, The Economics of the European Union and the Economies of Europe. New York: Oxford University, 1998, in International Politics 36, No. 1 (March 1999), pp. 115-116.
Alexander L. George, ed. Problems of Crisis Management. Boulder: Westview, 1991, in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 1, No. 3 (September 1993), pp. 181- 182.
Robert P. Berman and John C. Baker, Soviet Strategic Forces: Requirements and Responses. Washington: Brookings, 1982, in Political Science Quarterly 99, No. 2 (Summer 1984), pp. 393-394.
J. Baylis and G. Segal, eds. Soviet Strategy. London: Croom Helm, 1981, in Survival 24, No. 3 (May-June 1982), pp. 141-142.
Other
“Raymond Barre,” “Maurice Couve de Murville,” “Maurice Thorez,” “Franz Vranitzky,” entries in Spencer Tucker, ed. Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2007.
“The German Seat on the UN Security Council: A Tough Call,” AICGS Adviser (online), April 7, 2005, at
“Europe’s elites should not forget the dark chapters in its history” (letter to the editor), Financial Times, September 22, 2004.
“Interview: ‘A semi-hostile Europe would be a tremendous headache’,” SEF News, Bonn: Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden, August 2004: 8-9.
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“U.S. Reactions to the EU Security Strategy,” Oxford Journal on Good Governance, Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 2004).
“Status Quo vs. Revisionist Policies in Transatlantic Relations,” Center for Applied Policy Research, Improving Responsiveness Roundtable, July 17-18, 2003, at
“The Solana Security Paper,” AICGS Adviser (online), June 27, 2003, at
“Europe’s Superiority Complex” (letter to the editor), The Washington Post, June 4, 2002.
Library and Digital Library Related Publications
“The World Digital Library,” Bibliothek: Forschung und Praxis, No. 4 (2017), pp.1-8.
“Music Manuscripts in the World Digital Library,” Music Educators Journal, September 2016: 16-18.
“The Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, and Digital Libraries,” in Klaus Ceynowa, ed., Bibliotheken: Innovation aus Tradition. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2015.
“Strategies for Institutions: Responding to Digital Challenges – The World Digital Library Perspective,” Ingeborg Verheul, Anna Maria Tammaro, Steve Witt, eds. Digital Library Futures: User Perspectives and Institutional Strategies, Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2010.
“Svetska Digitalna Biblioteka,” Kultura (Belgrade), No. 129, 2010.
“Russia’s March to the Pacific,” Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History. College Park, MD: National History Day, 2003.
“Expanding Frontiers,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin 61, No. 1 (January 2002), pp. 10-15.
“Photographer to the Czar: The Startling Work of Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin 60, No. 5 (May 2001), pp. 115-116.
“Meeting of Frontiers,” The Northern Review (Whitehorse, Yukon Territory), No. 22 (Winter 2000), pp. 213-214.
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“Meeting of Frontiers and International Digital Library Cooperation: A Perspective from the Library of Congress,” Russian Digital Libraries Journal 3, No. 6 (2000).
“Meeting of Frontiers: Web Project Explores Russian, American Settlement,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin 59, No. 1 (January 2000), pp. 3-4.
“Foreword,” in Frank N. Schubert, ed. The Open House Military Program and Cold War Military Records. Washington: Department of Defense, 2000.
“Germany: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Italian Journey: 1786-1788,” in A World of Books 2000: International Classics. Washington: Library of Congress, 2000.
“Germany: Bracher, Karl. Turning Points in Modern Times: Essays on German and European History,” in Readings from Around the World: International Perspectives. Washington: Library of Congress, 1998.
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