Ambassador James Goodby
Member, Non-Partisan Security Group
Amb. James E. Goodby has served in the US Foreign Service, achieving the rank of Career Minister, and was appointed to five ambassadorial-rank positions by Presidents Carter, Reagan, and Clinton, including ambassador to Finland. He taught at Georgetown, Syracuse, and Carnegie Mellon Universities and is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon. Ambassador Goodby has worked with former Secretary of State George Shultz at Hoover since 2007. He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
He was a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 1989 to 1999 and is now a professor emeritus. Selected for the US Foreign Service through competitive examinations in 1952, Goodby rose to the rank of career minister in the Senior Foreign Service and was given five presidential appointments to ambassadorial rank, including ambassador to Finland (1980–81). During his Foreign Service career he was involved as a negotiator or as a policy adviser in the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the negotiation of the limited nuclear test ban treaty, START, the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, and cooperative threat reduction (the Nunn-Lugar program). He served as the head of safe and secure dismantlement negotiations for the development of methods for U.S. and Russian verification of warhead dismantlement and the means of making the process irreversible.
- https://www.hoover.org/profiles/james-goodby
- Book: Deterrence: Its Past and Future-Paper Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010
- Book: At the Borderline of Armageddon: How American Presidents Managed the Atom Bomb (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
- Book: The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons with Sidney Drell (Hoover Institution Press, 2003)
- Essay: A World without Nuclear Weapons: End-State Issues (Hoover Institution Press, 2009)
- Coedited: Reykjavik Revisited: Steps toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons (Hoover Instiution Press, 2008)
- https://www.brookings.edu/author/james-e-goodby/?type=opinions
- Op-ed: A Northeast Asia Security Conference (November 5, 2002)
- Op-ed: Try to Engage with Pyongyang (January 6, 2003)
- Op-ed: Opportunity and Danger (January 17, 2003)
- Op-ed: North Korea: In 2003, Look Back to 1984 (January 29, 2003)
- Op-ed: Playing the Long Game is Risky (February 20, 2003)
- Op-ed: Time for Jaw-Jaw with North Korea (March 6, 2003)
- Op-ed: A Chance to Turn the Nuclear Tide (August 5, 2003)
- Op-ed: Negotiating With a Nation That’s Really Gone Nuclear (February 15, 2004)
- Op-ed: Nuclear Talks will Test Six Nations in Beijing (February 24, 2004)
- Op-ed: The U.S is Losing Ground in Korea Talks (June 11, 2004)
- Op-ed: America and South Korea: An Alliance That Needs to Be Mended (August 6, 2004)
- Op-ed: The ‘Libya Model’ Could Help Disarm North Korea (September 3, 2004)
- Op-ed: Down to Basics in North Korea (February 4, 2005)
- Op-ed: Enlarge the North Korea Problem (June 20, 2005)
- Op-ed: Linking Europe and Northeast Asia (February 27, 2006)
- Op-ed: Chart New Course for Lasting Peace (February 27, 2006)
- Op-ed: Creating a Peace Regime in Korea (May 30, 2006)
- Op-ed: Nuclear Nonproliferation’s Missing Link (December 1, 2006)
- Op-ed: U.S Must Take Offensive Action Against Nuclear Terrorism (February 7, 2004)
- Op-ed: The End of a Nuclear Era (August 16, 2013)
- Op-ed: Nuclear non-proliferation: We must keep working for a world without nuclear weapons(yes, it’s possible) (April 24, 2015)
- https://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/member/james-e-goodby/
- https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/ambassador-james-goodby
- https://thebulletin.org/biography/james-e-goodby/
- Article: Internationalizing the nuclear fuel cycle (September 4, 2008)
- Article: A Middle East, Whole and Free (September 3, 2015)
- Article: A new boost-phase missile defense system-and its diplomatic uses in the North Korea dispute (June 28, 2018)
- Article: Fulfilling the promise of the Trump-Kim Singapore summit (July 18, 2018)
- https://www.fpri.org/contributor/james-goodby/
- Article: Arms Control Since the Cold War (May, 2009)
- https://www.sipri.org/about/bios/james-e-goodby
- Introductory Remarks: Regional Conflicts: The Challenge to US-Russian Co-operation (Oxford University Press, 1995)
- https://www.cmu.edu/epp/people/emiriti-faculty/james-e-goodby.html
- Remarks: The Nuclear Turning Point (Brookings Institution Press, 1999)
- Article: “Confidence- Building Ten Years On: What Has Changed”, (Korean Journal of Defense Analysis)
- Review: “A Stable Peace in Europe” (Brookings Review, Summer 1999)
- Book: Europe Undivided: The New Logic of Peace in U.S-Russian Relations (United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998)
- Book(contributor): The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons (Brookings Institute Press, 1999)
- Book (Co-author): Strategy for Stable Peace: Toward a Euroatlantic Security Community (Brookings, 2003)
- Book(Co-author): The War that Must Never be Fought (Hoover Press 2015)