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John Steinbruner is the director of the Center for International and Security Studies (CISSM) and a professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on international security and international policy. Steinbruner was the director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution from 1978 to 1996 and previously taught at Yale University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and MIT. Among his works are Principles of Global Security (2000) and The Cybernetic Theory of Decision: New Dimensions of Political Analysis (2nd edition 2002), as well as numerous journal article. Steinbruner holds an A.B. from Stanford and a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT. In November 2005 he participated in the Colloquium on the Ethics of War after 9/11, co-sponsored by the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, the Kroc Institute of International Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.