Dr. Geoffrey Wiseman
| Professor of The Practice of IR and Public Diplomacy School of International Relations Von KleinSmid Center, 303 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0043 (213) 740-2126 gwiseman@usc.edu
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Dr. Wiseman's main research and teaching interests are diplomacy and international security. He has just completed a book on the viability of "non-provocative defense" concepts. This work focuses on how states convey non-threatening intentions by adopting defensive military capabilities. His case studies include Western Europe, the Soviet Union under Gorbachev, the Persian Gulf War, and the Asia-Pacific. Dr. Wiseman offers courses on Diplomacy, Transnational Actors, International Security, and Cooperation & Conflict. Currently he is developing a new research project on how diplomats of the future will need to acquire innovative conceptual and practical skills as global patterns of power, identity, and communications become more complex.
Major publications: Concepts of Non-Provocative Defence : Ideas and Practices in International Security; "Polylateralism and New Modes of Global Dialogue," 1999; " Dealing with the Nuclear Dilemma in South Asia," (co-written with Gregory Treverton, 1998); "Non-Offensive Defence in the Asia-Pacific Region," in Bjorn Moller and Hakan Wiberg, eds., Non-Offensive Defence for the Twenty-First Century, 1994; "Australia and New Zealand: A Review of their Contributions to Asian-Pacific Security," in T.B. Millar and James Walter, eds., Asian Pacific Security After the Cold War, 1993; "Common Security in the Asia Pacific Region," The Pacific Review, 1992; "Common Security and Non-Provocative Defence: Alternative Approaches to the Security Dilemma," 1989.
Achievements: U.S. Institute of Peace grant for project on diplomatic innovation involving non-state actors; Visiting Fellow, Pacific Council on International Policy; Visiting Scholar, International Security Studies Program, Yale University; SSRC-MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security, Oxford University; Visiting and Teaching Fellow, Australian National University; Program Officer and Consultant to the Ford Foundation's International Affairs Program. Diplomat at Australian embassies in Stockholm, Hanoi, and Brussels; Private Secretary to the Australian Foreign Minister.
Ph.D.: University of Oxford
Fields: Diplomacy; International Security Studies; Asia-Pacific Security.