July 2014 Michael Nacht Goldman School of Public Policy 1 Lakeside Drive, Apt. 602 University of California, Berkeley Oakland, CA. 94612 2607 Hearst Avenue Phone: 510-922-8009 Berkeley, CA 94720 Phone: 510-643-4038 Fax: 510-643-0697 Email: [email protected] Education Ph. D., Political Science, Columbia University, 1973 M.A., Political Science, New School for Social Research, 1970 M.S., Operations Research, New York University, 1969 M.S., Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, 1966 B.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, New York University, 1963 Born: September 1, 1942 Married. Two Adult Sons. Employment History University of California, Berkeley, 1998- Present Thomas and Alison Schneider Professor of Public Policy, 2011-Present Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, 1998-2010 Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, 1998-2008 United States Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs (Confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate, May 7, 2009) University of Maryland, College Park, 1984-1998 Dean, School of Public Affairs, 1987-94 Acting Dean, School of Public Affairs, 1986-87 Professor, School of Public Affairs, 1986-1998 (on leave 1994-97) Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, 1984-86 United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C., 1994-97 Assistant Director for Strategic and Eurasian Affairs (Confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate July 14, 1994) Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1984 2 Associate Director, Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, 1980-84 Assistant Director, Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, 1973-80 Acting director, Harvard program on U.S.-Japan Relations, 1982-83 Founding Co-Editor, International Security, 1976-84 Associate Professor of Public Policy, 1979-84 Lecturer on Public Policy, 1977-79 Lecturer on Government, 1975-77 Dunlap and Associates, Inc., Darien, Connecticut, 1966-1970 Senior Scientist, System Sciences Division, 1968-70 Associate Scientist, System Sciences Division, 1966-68 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, Ohio, 1963-1966 Aerospace Engineer, NASA Lewis Research Center Consultant Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2011-Present Sandia National Laboratories, 2011-Present Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2011-Present Pacific Maritime Association, 2011-Present Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School, 2011-Present Honors Distinguished Public Service Medal, U.S. Department of Defense (2010) Highest Department award for non-career civilian Fellow, California Council on Science and Technology (2007-Present) Listed, Who’s Who in America (2002-Present) Distinguished Honor Award, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1997) Senior Scholar Traveling Fellowship to the Soviet Union, International Research Exchange Board (1983). President’s Fellow, Columbia University (1972-73). 3 Memberships Elected Memberships in Professional Organizations: Council on Foreign Relations (New York) International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) Academic Societies: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Government Advisory Bodies: Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2001- 2004, 2011- Present) Educator's Advisory Committee to the Comptroller General of the United States (2001-2008) Publications Books: 6. Strategic Latency and World Power, edited by Zachary Davis, Ronald Lehman, and Michael Nacht (Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center for Global Security Research, 2014). 5. Beyond Government: Extending the Public Policy Debate in Emerging Democracies, edited by Craufurd D. Goodwin and Michael Nacht (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1995). 4. Challenges to American National Security in the 1990s, edited by John J. Weltman, Michael Nacht, and George H. Quester (New York: Plenum Publishing Co., 1991) 3. Missing the Boat: The Failure to Internationalize American Higher Education (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), (with Craufurd Goodwin). 2. Abroad and Beyond: Patterns in America Overseas Education (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), (with Craufurd Goodwin). 1. The Age of Vulnerability: Threats to the Nuclear Stalemate (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1985). Monographs: 9. Missile Defense and Strategic Stability: An American Perspective (Paris: French Institute of International Relations, 2001) 8. The Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East: Implications for the United States (Los Angeles: University of Judaism, 1998). 4 7. Talking to Themselves: The Search for Rights and Responsibilities of the Press and Mass Media in Four Latin American Nations (New York: Institute of International Education, 1995), (with Craufurd Goodwin). 6. An Assessment of the Impact of A.I.D.’s Participant Training Programs in Nepal (Washington, D.C.: Agency for International Development, 1990), (with Krishna Kumar). 5. Decline and Renewal: Causes and Cures of Decay among Foreign-Trained Intellectuals and Professionals in the Third World (New York: Institute of International Education, 1986), (with Craufurd Goodwin). 4. Fondness and Frustration: The Impact of American Higher Education on Foreign Students with Special Reference to the Case of Brazil (New York: Institute of International Education, 1984), (with Craufurd Goodwin). 3. Absence of Decision: Foreign Students in American Colleges and Universities-- A Report on Policy Formation and the Lack Thereof (New York: Institute of International Education, 1983), (with Craufurd Goodwin). 2. The War in Vietnam: The Influence of Concepts on Policy, ACIS Working Paper No. 26, Center for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California at Los Angeles, July 1980. 1. Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons (New York: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1976). Journal Articles: 28. “Discussion Session: Managing the Enterprise,” Journal of Public Policy Analysis Management, Spring 2008. 27. “National Missile Defense--The Politics: How Did We Get Here?” The Washington Quarterly, vol. 23, No. 3, Summer 2000. 26. “Skeptical Support: An American View of ESDI,” INFO Security Policy: Change in the Strategic Environment of Switzerland, vol. 29, April 2000. 25. “Multinational Naval Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Some Plausible Considerations for 2020 Based on What We Know in 1994,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, vol. VII, No. 1, Summer 1995. 24. “United States-Japanese Relations,” Current History, April, 1991. 23. “New World Order: Pax Americana?” The Responsive Community, Spring 1991. 5 22. “Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East,” The World and I, December 1990. 21. “Beyond Mutual Recrimination: Building a Solid U.S.-Japan Relationship in the 1990s,” International Security, Winter 1990/91 (with I.M. Destler). 20. “United States-Japanese Relations,” Current History, April, 1988. 19. “When Leaders Fall: Succession Systems in the Non-Industrialized World,” Harvard International Review, February/March 1988. 18. “Nuclear Deterrence to the End of the Century,” Naval War College Review, November-December 1983. 17. “Public Management: Does It Exist? How Do You Do It?,” Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 210: Technology, Organization, and Economic Structure (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1983). 16. “When Worlds Divide: Diverging Conceptions of the National Interest in the United States and Japan,” Defense Information, March 1983, (in Japanese). 15. ABM ABCs,” Foreign Policy, Spring 1982. 14. “Anxiety and Ambivalence in the Japanese-American Security Relationship,” The Korean Journal of International Studies, Summer 1981. 13. “Internal Change and Regime Stability,” Adelphi Paper No. 166 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1981). 12. “The Future Unlike the Past: Nuclear Proliferation and American Security,” International Organization, Winter 1981. 11. “Toward an American Conception of Regional Security,” Daedalus, Winter 1981. 10. “In the Absence of SALT,” International Security, Winter 1979. 9. “Fallacies in Japanese-American Security Relations, Asia Pacific Community, Winter 1978-79. 8. “Strategic Symposium, Washington Review of Strategic and International Studies, January 1979. 7. “The United States in a World of Nuclear Powers,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 1977. 6. “Soviet Civil Defense,” Strategic Survey 1976, (unsigned). 6 5. “Technology and Strategy,” National Defense, November-December 1976. 4. “The Race to Control Nuclear Arms,” Foreign Affairs, October 1976, (with Paul Doty and Albert Carnesale). 3. “The Vladivostok Accord and American Technological Options,” Survival, May/June 1975. 2. “The Delicate Balance of Error,” Foreign Policy, Summer 1975. 1. “The New Nuclear Debate: Sense or Nonsense?,” Foreign Affairs, July 1974, (with Ted Greenwood). Book Chapters: 28. “Japan: The Most Obvious Latent Case” by Carolyn Chu and Michael Nacht in Zachary Davis, Ronald Lehman and Michael Nacht (eds.), Strategic Latency and World Power (Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center for Global Security Research, 2014) 27. “Turkey: Within Range?” by Zev Winkelman and Michael Nacht in Zachary Davis, Ronald Lehman and Michael Nacht (eds.), Strategic Latency and World Power (Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center for Global Security Research, 2014) 26. “Recalibrating President Obama’s Global Zero Vision” in Emily Landau and Azriel