Richard Betts
Affiliation
Research
Richard Betts (Ph.D., Harvard, 1975), is a specialist on national security policy and military strategy, he was a Senior Fellow and Research Associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC from 1976-1990, and has taught at Harvard and the Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Betts has also served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and as a consultant to the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency. In addition to numerous journal articles in International Security, World Politics, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere he has published Military Readiness (Brookings, 1995); Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises, 2nd edition (Columbia University Press, 1991); Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance (Brookings, 1987); and Surprise Attack (Brookings, 1982). He has also co-authored or edited three other books, including The Irony of Vietnam (Brookings, 1979), which won the Woodrow Wilson Prize.
Selected Work
- Conflict after the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace. Ed. Richard Betts. New York: Pearson Education, 2005.
- "Fixing Intelligence" Foreign Affairs 81, no. 1 (January/February 2002); slightly revised version of "Intelligence Test: the Limits of Prevention," in James F. Hoge, Jr. and Gideon Rose, eds., How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (New York: Public Affairs, 2001)
- Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace Revised edition of reader: Richard K. Betts, ed. 2nd Edition (New York: Longman, 2002)
- "Weapons of Mass Destruction" On-Line article for CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online), August 2001
- "Compromised Command: Inside NATO's First War" Foreign Affairs 80, no. 4 (July/August 2001)
- "The Lesser Evil: the Best Way Out of the Balkans" National Interest no. 64 (Summer 2001)
- "The Delusion of Impartial Intervention" in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds., Turbulent Peace: the Challenges of Managing International Conflict (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2001); revised version of article originally published in 1994
- "Military Strategy and Missions" in Philip D. Zelikow, ed., American Military Strategy: Memos to a President (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001)
