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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES – Gordon Adams

Gordon Adams
Professor
U.S. Foreign Policy

Phone
202-885-1651

Fax
202-885-2494

E-Mail
gadams@american.edu

Location
Clark, Room 112

Biography
Gordon Adams is a Professor in the U.S. Foreign Policy field at SIS. Adams was most recently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. For the previous seven years, he was a Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Director of the Schools Security Policy Studies Program. He was previously Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and served for five years as the Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, the senior White House budget official for national security. He has been an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. Professor Adams has published books, monographs and articles on defense and national security policy, the defense policy process, and on national security budgets. He has testified numerous times before the Congress on defense spending and national security issues, writes frequent columns for major media outlets, including a monthly column for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and is widely quoted by national media on national security policy and budgets.

Education
MA, PhD, Columbia University
BA, Stanford University

Publications

• Buying National Security: Transforming the U.S. Resource Planning Process. Gordon Adams. Routledge Press, due for publication 2008.
• Transforming European Militaries: Coalition Operations and the Technology Gap (with Guy Ben-Ari), London: Routledge Press, 2006.
• The Role of Defense Budgets in Civil Military Relations. Washington, D.C.: Defense Budget Project, 1992.
• The Iron Triangle: The Politics of Defense Contracting. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 1981.

Selected Awards
Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service

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