G.W. Professor to Discuss War on Terrorism

"At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy -- Can the U.S. Win the War on Terrorism?" is the title of a lecture to be given by George Washington University Professor Henry R. Nau on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

The event will begin at 8 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium of Palamountain Hall.

A national security advisor for international economic affairs during the first Reagan
Administration, Nau has written many books and articles, including At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2002), and The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s (Oxford
University Press, 1990), which challenges the assumption of U.S. decline
advanced by Paul Kennedy in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Random House, 1987).

Nau is professor of political science and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He holds a B.S. degree in economics, politics, and science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

He has taught at Williams College and as visiting professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Stanford, and Columbia. He has been a fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and the Law and Economics Center, University of Miami Law School. He currently directs the U.S.-Japan Economic Agenda and coordinates the U.S.-Japan Legislative Exchange Program, a semiannual meeting between members of the U.S. Congress and Japanese Diet.

From January 1981 to July 1983, he served in the White House as a senior
staff member of the National Security Council responsible for international economic affairs. Among other duties he coordinated White House policy preparations for the annual G-7 Economic Summits. From 1975 to 1977, Nau also served as special assistant to the under secretary for economic affairs in the Department of State.

He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of the Superior Honor Award from the Department of State. Nau's lecture, sponsored by the International Affairs and Environmental Studies programs, is open to the public and will be followed by refreshments.

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