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» James Reed
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Reed, an authority on the United States and world affairs, comes to CIGI on July 1, 2004, from Harvard University.In March 2004 he was named U.S.-Canada Fulbright Research Chair in Public Policy at CIGI and the University of Waterloo (a joint appointment) by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board of the U.S. Department of State.As a Senior Research Fellow at CIGI he will be working on a project entitled "The United States, Canada, and the United Nations System in the Post-Cold War Era."
Born in the Pacific Northwest, Jim Reed was educated in Seattle, Wisconsin, Chicago, and at Harvard, where is was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Harvard Graduate Prize Fellow.He was trained in American diplomatic history by Ernest R. May and in the international politics of Northeast Asia by the legendary teacher and Old China Hand John K. Fairbank.His doctoral dissertation, "The Missionary Mind and American Far Eastern Policy," was a pioneering study of the cultural foundations of America's traditional role in Asia.
Dr. Reed's career has combined the roles of scholar and practitioner after the American fashion.On the academic side, he has taught international affairs at Harvard College, has taught Asian diplomacy in the North Pacific Program at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard Divinity School working on religion and international politics, and has been a fellow at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
On the practitioner side, he has a distinguished track record as a consultant to governmental, non-governmental, and private sector clients.For twenty-five years he has been chairman of Addis & Reed Consulting, Inc., a diversified consulting, research, and publishing firm based in Boston.In the mid to late 1980s he served as president of the Boston chapter of the Association of Management Consultants (AMC).In addition, he has worked and lived in Washington and is thoroughly familiar with the Washington system.In the course of his career he has worked as an aide in the U.S. House of Representatives, has testified before the Senate, and has engaged in legislative representation.
Dr. Reed has written widely for both academic and general-interest publications.His scholarly work has focused on the United States in Asia, including the Middle East and South Asia, but his major publication remains The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy, published by the Harvard University Press.The Missionary Mind received notice in major book review media, including The New York Review of Books and the London Times Literary Supplement.He contributed a chapter on the United States to Enhancing Global Governance (United Nations University Press, 2002), edited by Andrew F. Cooper, John English, and Ramesh Thakur.And he has published in such general interest publications as The Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor.
James Reed has a long-standing interest in Canada. From 1995 to 1999 he edited The American Canada Watch, a monthly subscription newsletter on Canada and Canadian-American relations published in Boston.He also founded and continues to serve as president of the Boston branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA), the only branch of Canada's premier foreign-affairs organization located outside of Canada
As U.S.-Canada Fulbright Chair for the 2004-2005 academic year, Jim Reed will be teaching courses on American civilization and world affairs in the History Department at the University of Waterloo while pursuing his Fulbright research project at CIGI.His current research interests include American foreign policy, particularly in Asia; the role of religion and culture in international politics; and reform of the United Nations System.
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