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Blackwill, who is a Belfer lecturer in international security at the university's John F Kennedy School of Government and teaches foreign and defence policy and qualitative public policy analysis, succeeds Richard Celeste, an appointee of former president Bill Clinton.
A former associate dean of Kennedy School, he has been the faculty chairman of the school's executive programme for US and Russian general officers; of the school's Chinese security studies programme; and of the Kennedy school's Middle East initiative.
Blackwill is on the board of the journal International Security; a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and Council on Foreign Relations; on the advisory council of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom and has been a consultant to the RAND Corporation and US government agencies.
He is also the author of many books and has written many articles.
He is co-editor of Conventional Arms Control and East-West Security, and A Primer for the Nuclear Age . He also co-edited New Nuclear Nations with Albert Carnesale, Damage Limitation or Crisis? Russia and the Outside World with Sergei Karaganov and Allies Divided: Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East with Michael Stürmer of Germany's Research Institute for International Affairs.
Other books include Engaging Russia with Rodric Braithwaite and Akihiko Tanaka, and Arms Control and the US-Russian Relationship.
In 1999, the Council on Foreign Relations published his monograph, The Future of Transatlantic Relations. He co-edited America's Asian Alliances with Paul Dibb.
A career diplomat from 1967, Blackwill was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi, Africa. During his foreign service career, he served as political officer in the embassy in Nairobi, executive assistant to the US ambassador in the embassy in London, political counsellor in the embassy to Tel Aviv, director of West European affairs on the National Security Council staff; principal deputy assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs; principal deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs and US ambassador and chief negotiator at negotiations with the Warsaw Pact on conventional forces in Europe.
He was special assistant to President George Bush for European and Soviet affairs in 1989-90.
In December 1990, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution while at the White House to German unification.
During the presidential campaign, Blackwill served as a senior foreign policy advisor for George W Bush.
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