Guide to Specialists

Rodney W. Jones
Program Officer, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention

Current Projects:
Conflict Prevention in Pakistan/South Asia | Pakistan Policy Working Group on AFPAK Security and Development Strategy | Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security | Mitigation of Militancy and Terrorism

Phone: (202) 429-3834

E-mail: rjones@usip.org

Languages: Urdu, Hindi, German, French

Rodney Jones joined USIP in March 2009 as Program Officer for Pakistan and South Asia and directs the Institute’s Pakistan/South Asia Program and the Pakistan Working Group. Prior to joining the Institute, Jones was President of Policy Architects International, a national security-consulting firm in Reston, Virginia. He served as a senior officer in the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1989-1994, participated in the INF and START negotiations, and led the ACDA team in the JCIC in negotiating START I implementation. Prior to that he was Executive Director of the Washington Council on Non-Proliferation, and had served as Senior Fellow and Director of Nuclear Policy Projects at the Center for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS). Earlier he was an Associate Professor at Columbia University and the Institute of War and Peace Studies, and held a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship utilized as an officer in the US Department of State, Politico-Miitary Affairs Bureau. In that capacity, he had assignments on energy security, IAEA safeguards, nuclear and missile non-proliferation, and peacekeeping operations. Jones received his MA in International Relations and PhD in political science from Columbia University, and has done pre- and postdoctoral courses at University of Chicago and University of Michigan. He was born in India and has done field work for scholarly purposes both in India and Pakistan. He is a regular traveler to the region.

Publications:

Jones is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books and monographs, and of numerous chapters in other books, policy-oriented and scholarly articles, and op ed and media pieces or appearances. Recent publications include:

• "Neutralizing Extremism and Insurgency in Afghanistan and Its Borderlands," in Afghanistan: Unabated Turmoil, Islamabad: Institute of Regional Studies, PanGraphics, Ltd., 2008, chp. 3.
• "American boot, Pakistani Soil, Solution?," The Friday Times (Lahore), Sept. 12-18, 2008.
• "Energy Security and Human Needs in South Asia," in Non-Traditional and Human Security in South Asia, Islamabad: Institute of Regional Studies, 2007.
• "Prospects for Arms Control and Strategic Stability in South Asia," in Towards Strategic Stability in South Asia, a special issue of Contemporary South Asia, June 2005.
• Escalation Control and the Nuclear Options in South Asia (with Michael Krepon and Ziad Haider), Washington, DC: Henry L. Stimson Center, 2004
• The U.S. War on Terrorism: Religious Radicalism and Nuclear Confrontation in South Asia, Leicester University Center for the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, 2004; and "America’s War on Terrorism: Religious Radicalism and Nuclear Confrontation in South Asia," in Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia, Honolulu: Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, 2004.