Dr. Rhodes received his A.B. from Harvard University and his MPA and Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1986, Rhodes held research appointments at Cornell, Stanford, and Harvard Universities. Professor Rhodes spent 1996-97 as an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, serving on the Strategy and Concepts Branch of the Navy Staff in the Pentagon. Rhodes's current research deals with U.S. national security policy, focusing particularly on the determinants of national force posture decisions. He is the author of Power and MADness: The Logic of Nuclear Coercion (Columbia, 1989) and co-editor, with Peter Trubowitz and Emily Goldman, of The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interest (Columbia, 1998). His essays and articles include: "Sea Change: Interest-Based and Cultural-Cognitive Accounts of Strategic Adjustment in the 1890s," Security Studies (1996), "Constructing Peace and War: An Analysis of the Power of Ideas to Shape American Military Power," Millennium (1995), "Do Bureaucratic Politics Matter? Some Disconfirming Findings from the Case of the U.S. Navy," World Politics (1992), "Wilson, Roosevelt, and Defense Policy in the 1990s," Defense Analysis (1992), "Deep Cuts at Sea: Superpower Naval Reductions in the Post-Cold War Period," Arms Control (1990), "Hawks, Doves, Owls and Loons: Extended Deterrence Without Flexible Response," Millennium (1990) and "Nuclear Weapons and Credibility: Deterrence Theory Beyond Rationality," Review of International Studies (1988).