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Research Interests
United Nations; international security; peacekeeping; post-conflict operations; Middle East peace process

Bruce Jones is Director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, and Director of the Managing Global Order (MGO) project and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Jones’ research focuses 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.

Dr. Jones also advises several international organizations: most recently, he served as Co-Lead and Senior External Advisor for the World Bank’s 2011 World Development Report, Conflict, Security and Development, and in March 2010 was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General as a member of the Senior Advisory Group to guide the Review of International Civilian Capacities.  He is also Consulting Professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and Professor (by courtesy) at New York University’s Department of Politics. Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics; and was Hamburg Fellow in Conflict Prevention at Stanford University.

He is co-author with Carlos Pascual and Stephen Stedman of Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats (Brookings Press, 2009); co-editor with Shepard Forman of Cooperating for Peace and Security (Cambridge University Press, 2009); author of Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of Failures (Lynne Reinner, 2001); Series Editor of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations; and author of several book chapters and journal articles on US strategy, global order, the Middle East, peacekeeping, post-conflict peacebuilding, and strategic coordination.

Dr. Jones served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary-General during the UN reform effort leading up to the World Summit 2005, and in the same period was Acting Secretary of the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee. In 2004-2005, he was Deputy Research Director of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. From 2000-2002 he was Special Assistant to and Acting Chief of Staff at the office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process.