Acting Director, Senior Fellow
Professor of Political Science

114 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

Phone: (574) 631-6971
Fax: (574) 631-6973
Email:Johansen.2@nd.edu

Robert Johansen (Ph.D. Columbia, 1968) specializes in issues of international ethics and global governance, the United Nations and the maintenance of peace and security, and peace and world order studies. His major publications include The National Interest and the Human Interest: An Analysis of U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton, 1980) and Toward an Alternative Security System: Moving Beyond the Balance of Power in the Search for World Security (World Policy Institute, 1983), and he co-edited The Constitutional Foundations of World Peace (SUNY, 1993). His scholarly articles have appeared in World Policy Journal, World Politics, The Journal of Peace Research, Global Governance, Third World Quarterly, Mershon International Studies Review, and Review of Politics. More popular articles on public policy have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Times, Christian Century, and other periodicals. He is the founding editor-in-chief of World Policy Journal. He is conducting research on enhancing U.N. peacekeeping and enforcement through an institutional grant from the United States Institute of Peace. He is also conducting research on the role of non-governmental organizations in promoting compliance with international humanitarian law and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court, under a grant from the Aspen Institute. He was Director of Graduate Studies at the Kroc Institute from 1987-1998, 2001-2002 and has been a senior fellow at the Kroc Institute since 1986.

Recent Publications by Robert C. Johansen

A United Nations Emergency Peace Service to Prevent Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Discussion draft, UNEPS conference, February 2005

Report on the Discussion of a United Nations Emergency Peace Service

Cuenca, Spain, February 2005

Reviving Peacebuilding Tools Ravished by Terrorism, Unilateralism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Kroc Institute Occasional Paper No. 26, 2005

U.S. Opposition to the International Criminal Court: Unfounded Fears

Policy Brief No. 7, 2001.

 

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