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Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies

Education

BA, with Honors, Swarthmore College
MBA in International Business, The Wharton School
MA in International Relations, and PhD in Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.

Professional Activities

Dr. Pfaltzgraff has also held a visiting appointment as George C. Marshall Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, and as Professor at the National Defense College, Tokyo, Japan. He has also served as Honorary Professor, University of St. Andrews (Scotland). He has advised key U.S. government officials on military strategy, defense modernization, the future of the Atlantic Alliance, proliferation and counterproliferation issues, and arms control policy. He has lectured widely at government, industry, and academic forums in the United States and overseas. These include the NATO Defense College, National Defense University, the Marine Corps University, the Army War College, the Air University, the Naval War College, and the Armed Forces Staff College.  Dr. Pfaltzgraff was a member of the Department of State’s International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) between 2006 and 2009. The ISAB provided the Secretary of State and other senior Department officials with insights/advice on vital national security challenges encompassing topics such as WMD terrorism, proliferation, and U.S. space policy.

Dr. Pfaltzgraff is also founder and President of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. IFPA is an independent, nonpartisan organization, whose major purposes are to conduct research, produce and publish studies in the form of reports, briefings, point papers, policy recommendations, monographs, and books. IFPA organizes and conducts conferences, seminars, and workshops in the United States and abroad. The Institute's products and services are designed to assist senior government policymakers military leaders, broader public policy communities, and industry leaders in making informed decisions in the uncertain global security environment of the twenty-first century. IFPA's program encompasses studies on each of the regions of importance to the United States as well as a broad range of issues, including proliferation, counterproliferation, homeland security, the future of alliances, national security strategy, force structure modernization priorities, and peace building/peace enforcement requirements. Its research program is designed to address public policy issues in integrated fashion, bringing to bear a broad range of perspectives from the United States and abroad, from within government from the broader academic-policy community, and from appropriate professional and disciplinary approaches. IFPA maintains a core professional staff with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. IFPA usually has openings for full-time or part-time interns drawn from The Fletcher School and other academic institutions. For further information you may visit the IFPA website at http://www.ifpa.org/.

Programs & Centers

• International Security Studies Program

Courses

Fall 2009

• DHP P200 - International Relations: Theory and Practice
• DHP P245 - Seminar on Crisis Management and Complex Emergencies

Spring 2010

• DHP P242 - Seminar on Proliferation-Counterproliferation and Homeland Security Issues

GMAP

• GMA P245 - Security Studies & Crisis Management

Research Interests

Dr. Pfaltzgraff's academic and policy work encompasses national security policy; crisis management; missile defense; the development and conduct of gaming exercises; proliferation-counterproliferation; arms control issues; strategic planning in the emerging security environment; alliance relations; and international relations theory.

Faculty Research Profile - Pfaltzgraff is particularly intrigued by the “new security paradigm” which, he says, “extends from Tora Bora to Braintree.” After 9/11 he assisted the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in homeland security issues. He has also worked with each of the military services to organized major conferences on major conferences on emerging security issues."

Selected Publications

• “Dealing with the Nuclear Threat in the Struggle against Terror,” in Legal Issues in the Struggle against Terror, John Norton Moore and Robert F. Turner (eds.) (University of Virginia Press, forthcoming in 2009)
“International Relations Theory and Spacepower,” in Spacepower in the Twenty-First Century (National Defense University Press, forthcoming in 2009)
• “Counterproliferation Challenges,” in Taking on Tehran: Strategies for Confronting the Islamic Republic, Ilan Berman (ed.) (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007)
• Missile Defense, the Space Relationship, and the Twenty-First Century, Report of the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense (Cambridge, MA: Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis for the Independent Working Group, 2006) co-author and co-editor
• Consequence Management in NATO since 9/11, Volume One: Emerging Threats, Planning, and Responses and Volume Two: NATO and European Union Organizational Dimensions and Country Profiles (Cambridge, MA: Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, 2005) co-author
• Relacões Internationalais as Teorias em Confronto (Lisbon: Gradiva, 2003, Portuguese edition of Contending Theories of International Relations, fifth edition) co-author
• Contending Theories of International Relations, fifth edition (co-author) (2001);
• The Role of Naval Forces in 21st Century Operations (co-editor and contributor) (2000);
• Strategy and International Politics (co-editor and contributor) (2000);
• War in the Information Age (co-author) (1997);

Articles and Op-eds

• “Don’t Ignore Sea, Space-Based Missile Defense,” Defense News, October 22, 2007 (co-author with Ilan Berman and Henry F. Cooper)
• Lost in Space, The Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2006 (co-author with Henry F. Cooper)
• “The Future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Special Edition 2006, Vol. 30:3
• “The Next Frontier,” Journal of International Security Affairs, Spring 2006, Number 10, http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2006/10/pfaltzgraff.php.