Conservative Internationalism by Henry R. Nau

In 2016, the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, Neck Ribbon with Gold Rays, the highest honor for academic leaders, in recognition of his work on this Exchange. Congress, the Japanese Diet, and the South Korean National Assembly. From 1989 to 2016, he directed the U.S.–Japan–South Korea Legislative Exchange Program, semiannual meetings among members of the U.S. member of the UN Committee for Development Planning. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Investment and as the U.S. Outside government, Nau continued his public service. Nau wrote an account of these early years in The Myth of America’s Decline (see below). At those summits, the United States led a revival of the world economy from the stagflation and resource shortages of the 1970s to thirty years of 3+ percent growth per year, promoting the so-called Washington Consensus (originating in the Williamsburg Summit Communique) of lower inflation, freer markets and open trade. He was President Reagan’s White House aide, or Sherpa, for the annual G7 economic summits in Ottawa (1981), Versailles (1982), and Williamsburg (1983), and for the special summit with developing countries in Cancun (1982). For his service, he was awarded the State Department's Superior Honor Award.įrom 1981 to 1983 Nau served as a senior staff member of the National Security Council responsible for international economic affairs. In that capacity he worked in the office of the Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to organize a major conference on science, technology, and foreign policy. Nau served from 1975 to 1977 as special assistant to the undersecretary for economic affairs, Charles Robinson, in the U.S. Friendship Commission, the Hoover Institution, the Rumsfeld Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. He has received research grants from, among others, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Century Foundation, the Japan-U.S.

From 1977 to 1981, Nau served on the Board of Editors of the journal International Organization. He taught previously at Williams College and held visiting appointments at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Stanford University, and Columbia University.

Nau is currently professor of political science and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He brings this experience to bear in this textbook, integrating theory and practice with unprecedented clarity for understanding historical and contemporary issues in world affairs. Nau has combined an outstanding career in the academic world with two opportunities to serve at the highest levels of the U.S.

Conservative Internationalism by Henry R. Nau