Bruce Jentleson

Bruce Jentleson is a professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, where he served from 2000 to 2005 as Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.
Jentleson is a co-founder of the Bridging the Gap project, promoting greater policy relevance among academics.From 2009-11 he was Senior Advisor to the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Director. In 2012 Jentleson served on the Obama 2012 campaign National Security Advisory Steering Committee. He also served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore in his 2000 presidential campaign, in the Clinton administration State Department (1993–94), and as a foreign policy aide to Senators Gore (1987–88) and Dave Durenberger (1978–79). He also has served on a number of policy commissions, most recently the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Working Group co-chaired by Madeleine Albright (2011–13). Prior to coming to Duke, Jentleson was a professor at UC-Davis.

Jentleson holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, a Master's degree from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor's degree from Cornell.

In addition to numerous articles, Jentleson is the co-author of The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas.

The fifth edition of his book, American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, was released in 2013.