Deborah W. Nutter
Deborah W. Nutter
Phone: (617) 627-2408
Fax: (617) 627-3068
Office: Cabot 401A
Address:
The Fletcher School
Tufts University
160 Packard Ave
Medford, MA 02155
Senior Associate Dean, Professor of Practice, and Advisor to the Provost for the International Board and on International Projects
Academic Credentials
PhD in Political Science from Columbia University (1976); A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, with Distinction in Government from Colby College (1968); American Council on Education Fellow, Offices of the President, the Provost, and Vice President, Tufts University, (1996-1997).
Professional Activities
Deborah Winslow Nutter is the Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Practice of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. She is also the founding director of the Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP), Fletcher’s signature hybrid residency and internet masters program, and holds the post of Advisor to the Provost for the International Board of Overseers of Tufts University. As Senior Associate Dean, she is responsible for Fletcher’s Board of Overseers, its International Management Advisory Group and regional advisory groups for Asia, Latin America, and Europe; GMAP; communications and public relations; and new strategic initiatives, including executive education.
Dr. Nutter teaches foreign policy leadership and team dynamics in Global Master of Arts Program, which attracts senior international affairs professionals from around the world in business, government, the United Nations, and NGOs. She lectures and writes on the intersection of geopolitics and global leadership, using major historic world leaders and the challenges they faced as a basis for evaluating leadership performance and success.
Dean Nutter earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, where she held several fellowships, including an Honorary Presidential Fellowship. She holds her A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, from Colby College and studied at Oxford University. For many years, she taught international politics, security studies, Soviet and Russian foreign policy, and international organizations and law at Bowdoin and Simmons Colleges, serving as Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at the latter institution. Dr. Nutter has been a Fellow at Harvard University at both the Center for International Affairs and the Center for Science and International Affairs and spent a years as an American Council on Education Fellow. She has also served as President of the Northeast International Studies Association and the New England Political Science Association.
Her publications include Soviet Foreign Policy in Transition with Cambridge University Press, which has been reissued this year in paperback. She has also written journal articles on security studies, transatlantic relations, and international political leadership. Most recently, she has written a series of articles on India’s role in world affairs for the Indian newspapers Hindustan Times and Daily News & Analysis. Her current research is on the inner circle around leaders.
Curriculum Vitae/Biography
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GMAP Courses
This module focuses on six leaders who are known for major accomplishments in foreign policy: Elizabeth I, Napoleon, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Mao Zedong, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Each is examined within the context of the pressing international problems of her/his time and in light of the political science and business literature on leadership. With varying myriad situations the faced at home and abroad, these leaders provide lessons and models for those who are interested in and aspire to leadership.
Research Interests
Foreign policy leadership; United States foreign policy; United States transatlantic relations; international science and technology education.
Recent Publications
- Soviet Foreign Policy in Transition (co-author) (1992);
- Review of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Game Plan, in Soviet Union/Union Sovietique (1991);
- Review of George Liska, Rethinking US-Soviet Relations in Ethics and International Affairs (April 1990);
- "Military Power, SDI and Arms Control in East-West Relations" (essay review with R. Kanet and J. Schmitz) in OstEuropa, Vol.39, No. 8 (1989);
- "The Soviet Union Confronts an Interdependent World," Choix (January 1987);
- "What Role for Limited BMD?" (co-author) Survival (January 1987);
- "How Can We Improve Soviet-American Relations?" Simmons Review (Spring 1986).