Johns Hopkins SAIS professor joins task force on U.S. strategy in the Arctic

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations Charles F. Doran has been appointed to the Independent Task Force on U.S. Strategy in the Arctic of the Council on Foreign Relations.
 
The task force is creating a report to address all aspects of Arctic policy including: sovereignty and security considerations, interactions with other Arctic states and Great Powers, energy policy and environmental protection, and the concerns of Native Peoples facing unprecedented global warming. The task force will also formulate a new U.S. strategy to cope with monumental transformations of the ecosphere, such as transits of the Arctic Ocean from the European to the Asian shores.
 
Doran is Director of the Global Theory and History Program and Director of Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He also oversees General International Relations, and established the SAIS Global Politics and Religion Initiative. Doran is the former director of the school’s Center for Canadian Studies.
 
Before joining Johns Hopkins SAIS in 1979, Doran was a professor and director of the international relations program at Rice University. As an analyst of structural change and security in world politics, Doran created the power cycle theory of state rise and decline, which experts said transformed the static understanding of neo-realism.
 
Doran is the past recipient of the Governor General’s International Award in Canadian Studies, which honors scholars who have made outstanding contributions to scholarship and the development of Canadian Studies internationally. He has published more than 100 articles and books on the Great Powers, origins of major war, Middle East conflict, oil politics, energy security, political economy, and evolving power cycles. He has directed major research projects on North American trade, Persian Gulf energy security, and U.S.-German-Japanese relations.
 
The Independent Task Force on U.S. Strategy in the Arctic is chaired by former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard Thad Allan and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Christine Todd Whitman. The group is expected to complete the report by October 2016.