PrintWilliam "Bill" Long
Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, October 2009 - July 2010
Contact
Phone: (202) 429-3881
Email: wlong@usip.org
Project Focus: Cross-Border Health Cooperation in Zones of Conflict: Deriving Lessons for Improving Regional Stability and Global Security
Bill Long is Professor and Chair of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology. Long’s project will investigate ongoing regional cooperation and response in infectious disease control among traditional adversaries. Case studies will focus on three areas: the Middle East, the Mekong Basin and South Asia. His project seeks to answer the following questions: why is public health cooperation occurring among traditional antagonists, and how is this form of cooperation instigated, nurtured, institutionalized and extended to other issue areas? What is the potential role of non-state actors in regional health governance? How are sufficient resources for health cooperation generated from old and new philanthropies, governments, and international institutions, and how are resources distributed according to agreed priorities?
Long’s research has focused on international conflict resolution and international trade and technology transfer and their relationship to national security, economic competitiveness, and international cooperation. Before entering academia, Long practiced international law at the Washington, D.C. offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharf & Garrison and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Long received a PhD from Columbia University in Political Science, a JD degree from Georgetown University, an MA from Columbia University in International Economics and a BA from American University.
Publications:
• War and Reconciliation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003 (with Peter Brecke)
• Economic Incentives and Bilateral Cooperation. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
• U.S. Export Control Policy: Executive Autonomy Versus Congressional Reform. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
• “Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: An Interim Assessment,” International Journal of Peace Studies, Winter 2009.
• “Assessing Engagement: Why America’s Incentive Strategy Toward North Korea ‘Worked’ and Could Work Again,” International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Vol. 15 (No. 2), 2006.