David B.H. Denoon Spring 2005 Office: New York University Phone: 212-998-8505 726 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10003 FAX: 212-995-4184 E-Mail: david.denoon@nyu.edu Languages: French (fair) Birthdate: April 12, 1945 Indonesian (fluent) Academic Training: Harvard University B.A. Economics 1966 Princeton University M.P.A. Econ. & Public Policy 1968 M.I.T. Ph.D. Political Science 1975 Employment History: 1975 - Present -- Professor of Politics & Economics, New York University Teaching includes: North-South relations, U.S. foreign policy, Asian comparative politics, and Pacific Basin seminar. In the Politics Dept., during 1985-86 was Director of Undergraduate Studies; in 1989-91, was Director of Graduate Studies, and am currently Director of the International Relations Honors Program. Principal research project underway is a grant-funded book manuscript evaluating the political and strategic implications of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis. The monograph has three parts: an assessment of differentials in economic recovery rates, analysis of the performance of regional institutions within East Asia, and an evaluation of likely moves by the major powers involved (Japan, China, India, Russia and the U.S.). The volume will be published in 2005). l98l - 1982 -- Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense Responsibilities included: analysis of overseas basing strategy, aspects of Rapid Deployment Force Planning, security assistance levels, and LDC economic performance; chairing a DoD-wide study on policy guidelines for international co-production and codevelopment of systems; and directing a program for various energy supply interruption contingencies. 1978-1979 -- Vice President for Policy Analysis, U.S. Export-Import Bank Responsibilities included: long-term planning of the Bank's loan portfolio, commodity studies, reviews of the Bank's competitive position vis-a-vis other country's export credit agencies, representing the Bank on President Carter's Task Force on Export Policy, and chairing the Bank's working group on financing to the People's Republic of China.
-2-1976 - 1978 -- Project Director, Economic Policy Council, United Nations Assn. This project was designed to get senior academic, labor, and business leaders together to make recommendations on U.S. international economic policy. The work was to plan the basic research agenda, commission the initial research, and participate in drafting the first round of policy statements. 1971-1972 -- Assistant to the President, National Bureau of Economic Research Work included: evaluation of new proposals to the Bureau, coordination of the Research Policy Committee, monitoring various ongoing research projects, and development of a new fellowship program for economists from research institutes in LDCs. 1968-1970 -- Program Economist, USAID, Dept. of State, Jakarta, Indonesia Main responsibilities included: benefit-cost analysis of capital projects, direction of the PL 480 cotton and yarn programs, assessment of the effects of commodity import loans, and participation in the formulation of the development banking and management training projects. Awards: 1962-66 -- Dean's List and Honors Program, Harvard 1966-68 -- University & Public Affairs Fellowships, Princeton 1973-75 -- University Consortium for World Order Studies Grants, M.I.T. 1983-84 -- Director, project evaluating the economic effects of defense spending, funded by the Office of Net Assessment, DoD 1985-86 -- Co-Principal Investigator, Social Science Research Council grant for a project on U.S.-Japan security relations l987 -- Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 1987-91 -- Sloan Foundation funding, through the American Enterprise Institute, for research on the economics of strategic defense 1992-93 -- Council on Foreign Relations funding for a project on U.S. economic and security policy in the Pacific Basin 1994-95 -- Rockefeller Bros. Fund grant regarding potential Asian conflict 1995-97 -- U.S. Institute for Peace grant for project on Asian security 2000-04 -- Smith Richardson Foundation grant for current book project on the implications of the East Asian financial crisis Memberships and Listings: - Am. Economic Association, Am. Political Science Association, Asia Society - Council on Foreign Relations: Studies Committee, Chair, Publications Review Committee (1998-99), member, Task Force on South Asia (2001-03) - Co-Chair, Columbia Univ. Faculty Seminar on Southeast Asia - Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) - International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) - International Studies Association - Korea Society, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations - National Committee on American Foreign Policy: China-Taiwan Roundtable - Trustee, Goucher College, Baltimore; Director, Foreign Policy Assn. NYC. - Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World Selected List of Publications: Books:
-3- -- Asia Transformed: The Economic and Strategic Rise of India and China, (forthcoming, 2005) -- Ballistic Missile Defense in the Post-Cold War Era, (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995). -- Real Reciprocity: Balancing U.S. Economic and Security Policies in the Pacific Basin, (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, April 1993). -- Constraints on Strategy: The Economics of Western Security, Editor and contributor, (London and New York: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1986), (Translated into Chinese and republished in 1992, with an updated preface, Beijing, China). -- Devaluation Under Pressure: India, Indonesia, and Ghana, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986). -- The New International Economic Order: A U.S. Response, Editor and contributor, (New York: NYU Press, 1979). Articles and Book Chapters: -- "Competing Views on Taiwan's Foreign Investments," American Foreign Policy Interests, October 2004 Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 425-431. -- "Strategic Competition Between China, Japan, and Taiwan," Chapter in Anthony Lake and David Ochmanek, eds., Reassessing Realism for the 21 st Century, (New York: Roman & Littlefield, 2001). -- & Evelyn Colbert, "Challenges Facing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)," Pacific Affairs, Winter 1999, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 505-523. -- "Cycles in Indian Economic Liberalization: 1966-96, Comparative Politics, October 1998, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 43-60. -- & Steven Brams, "Fair Division: A New Approach to the Spratly Islands Controversy," International Negotiation, Vol. 2, No. 2., 1997, pp. 303-329. -- & Wendy Frieman, "China's Security Strategy: The View from Beijing, ASEAN, and the U.S.," Asian Survey, Vol. XXXVI, April 1996, pp. 422-439. -- "Alternative Directions for U.S. Strategy in the Pacific," Chapter 9 in J. Hsiung, ed., Asia Pacific and the New World Politics, (Boulder, Colo.: L. Rienner, 1993), pp. 177-194. -- "The Making of U.S. International Economic Policy: Economics as a Secular Religion," Chapter in The Political Culture of Foreign Area and International Studies, R.J. Samuels & M. Weiner, eds., (Washington, D.C.: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1992), pp. 174-196. -- "Military Spending in ASEAN: An Overview," Chapter in K.W. Chin, ed., Defence Spending in Southeast Asia, (Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 1987), pp. 48-74. -- "Japan and the U.S.: The Security Agenda," Current History, November 1983, Vol. 82, No. 487, pp. 353-394.
-4- -- "The U.S. and North-South Bargaining: Quo Vadis?" The Washington Quarterly, Summer 198l, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 97-106. Policy Papers: -- "The Global Economy and U.S. Security Policy: The Danger of Overcommitment," Chapter in R. Kugler and E. Frost, eds., Globalization: The Impact on National Security, (Washington, D.C.: NDU Press, 2001). -- "Intertwined Destinies - Economic and Security Policy in the Korean- U.S. Relationship" in the Papers and Proceedings of the Korean Association of International Studies (Seoul: August 2000). -- Changing Capital Markets and the Global Economy, Editor and contributor, (Philadelphia, Pa: Univ. of Pa., G.I.C./Fels Institute, 1988). -- Arms Collaboration, Coproduction and Industrial Participation Agreements, (Washington, D.C.: Department of Defense, August 1983). (As Chairman of the Task Group that did this study, this is called the "Denoon Report"). Book Reviews: -- Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall 2002, review of R. Butler, Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2001) -- American Political Science Review, Vol. 94, No. 3. Sept. 2000, review of A. Agrawal, Greener Pastures (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). -- Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 55, No. 4, November 1996, review of M. Leifer, Dictionary of Modern Politics in South-East Asia, (London: Routledge, 1995). -- "Scientific and Technical Cooperation Between the U.S. and Japan," Issues in Science and Technology, March-May, 1996. -- The Annals of the Am. Academy of Political and Social Science, Jan. 1989 review of Making and Marketing Arms - The French Experience, E. Kolodziej, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987). -- American Political Science Review, March 1988, review of A Changing International Division of Labor, J.A. Caporaso, ed., (Boulder and London: Rienner and Pinter, 1987). -- in the Journal of Politics, Spring 1983, review of China, the Soviet Union, and the West, D. Stuart and W. Tow, eds., (Boulder: Westview, 1981). Selected List of Lectures / Presentations Given: - "Defense Cooperation Between National Academy of Sciences/NRC 4/94 the U.S. and Japan" Washington, D.C. - "The Future of Deterrence" Chair, American Political Science 9/94 Association panel, N.Y.C.
-5- - "Alternative Perspectives on China Academy of the Social 4/95 Pacific Basin Security" Sciences, Beijing - "Fair Division - A Strategy Univ. of Durham, United Kingdom 7/96 for Dispute Resolution" - "Strategic Competition in Harvard-MIT Defense & Arms Control 9/97 Northeast Asia" Seminar, Cambridge - "Conflict Resolution in the MIT Energy Security Conference, 9/97 South China Sea" Cambridge - "China's Arms Control and Chair, American Political Science 9/98 Security Strategy" Association Panel, Boston - "The Implications of the Slow University of the Philippines, 8/00 Recovery in E. Asia" - "Indonesia's Economic Choices" Transition Indonesia Roundtable, 5/01 Washington, D.C. - "Has Everything Changed in U.S. Davos World Economic Forum, 2/02 Foreign Policy Since 9/11?" New York - "The Strategic Impact in Asia Council on Foreign Relations, 5/02 of the 1997 Financial Crisis" New York - "China's Impact on Southeast Institute for International 1/03 Asia's Economy" Economics, Washington, D.C. - "Assessing the Costs and Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. 3/03 Benefits of the Iraq War" - "Bilateral vs. Multilateral FPA Conference, Princeton Univ., 5/03 Aspects of U.S. Foreign Policy" Princeton, New Jersey - "The Future of Realism: American Political Science 9/03 Honoring Kenneth Waltz" Association, Phila., Pa. - "Strategic Realignments in Columbia University, New York 12/03 Asia" - "Future Strategic Choices Forum on U.S.- Korean Relations, 10/04 for South Korea" New York