Robert Williams
Dr. Robert E. Williams Jr. is associate professor of political science at Pepperdine University, where he teaches the introduction to international relations course, along with courses on international law and organization, international ethics and human rights. He previously taught at Abilene Christian University and at Missouri State University.
Williams is the co-author, along with Dan Caldwell, of Seeking Security in an Insecure World, a survey of contemporary perspectives on international security that argues for greater attention to the interconnections among security threats and wider cooperation among states to meet those threats. He also has published articles on nuclear strategy, human rights and the just war tradition. He is currently editing the new two-volume Encyclopedia of Arms Control for Praeger Security International, which is scheduled for publication in 2009.
A summa cum laude graduate of Abilene Christian University, Williams holds a B.A. in history. He went on to the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and earned an M.A. in U.S. Foreign Policy and to the University of Virginia for his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs. His dissertation at Virginia was an intellectual history of the “New Thinking” in arms control entitled The Evolution of Disarmament and Arms Control Thought, 1945-1963. While working on the dissertation, Williams was awarded a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Arms Control and Disarmament by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.