Bruce D Jones

Bruce D. Jones, Ph.D. (born 1969) is an academic, an author and policy analyst. He is Director of the Foreign Policy program and Director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He is also a consulting professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University and chair of the advisory council of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. Jones’ research focuses primarily on U.S. policy on global order; the global order policies of the emerging powers; global governance and multilateral reform, including such issues as G8/G20 and UN Security Council reform; and international conflict management, peacekeeping, and post-conflict operations. His most recent book, Still Ours to Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint, examines the tension between the impulse to rival the U.S.A and the incentives for restraint and cooperation among the rising powers. Under Jones, the Center on International Cooperation has developed into one of the most influential think-tanks working on conflict and security, climate change, fragile states, peacebuilding, mediation, and global threats and challenges.

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• Education
• Career
• Select publications
• References

Through CIC, Jones has authored several major policy reports and publications. The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations has rapidly become the reference text for data and analysis on peacekeeping. From Fragility to Resilience has provided new international definitions for resilience and statebuilding, which were adopted by OECD member states, and taken forward by the United Kingdom Department for International Development and others. He also co-authored Recovering from War, which formed the basis for a Thematic Debate at the United Nations Security Council. The follow-up to the ideas in this report were most notably visible in the United Nations Review of International Civilian Capacities initiative, for which Dr. Jones served as a member of the Senior Advisory Group, and in the OECD workstream on financing.

Jones's book, Power and Responsibility (2009), co-authored by Ambassador Carlos Pascual and Professor Stephen Stedman, received the BookNote Awards Gold Prize in 2009 for Best Book of the Year in the domain of Political Science.

Jones is also affiliated with several universities, serving at Stanford University as a Consulting Professor, at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service as an Adjunct Professor, and at New York University as a Professor by courtesy. He advises several international organizations, including the World Bank, serving as Co-Lead and Senior External Advisor for the World Bank's 2011 World Development Report: Conflict, Security and Development; and the United Nations, where he is Lead consultant with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations project, New Horizons for Peacekeeping. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Foreign Policy Program of the Brookings Institution.

Jones is a Board member of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation; the Norwegian Peacebuilding Training Advisory Group; Conciliation Resources; and to Asia Foundation's Aid to Subnational Conflict Areas program.