Ronald J. Bee

Ronald Bee has taught political science, international relations, conflict resolution, American foreign policy, globalization, and national security policy at the University of San Diego (USD), San Diego State University (SDSU), Cuyamaca College, Grossmont College and Miramar College. From 2005-09, he served as the Director of the Charles Hostler Institute on World Affairs at SDSU. From 1994-2006, he worked at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), directing Middle East diplomacy programs for the U.S. Congress, and co-directing the UC Revelle Program on Climate Science and Policy.

He spent fifteen years in Washington, D.C. in the private and public sectors, including posts at the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, and the Congressional Research Service. In 1987-88, Mr. Bee was selected as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow for American Leadership to work in the West German Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, and for the Governing Mayor of West Berlin. In 1992-93, he helped establish the selection and implementation process for the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) in the former Soviet Union. He has studied, lived, or worked in France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Austria, and the Russian Federation.

His published books include Mapping Transatlantic Futures: German-American Relations in A Global World (with Collette Mazzucelli, 2015); Terrorism by the Numbers (with Loretta Napoleoni, Milan 2008); Seven Minutes to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons after 9/11 (Foreign Policy Association, 2006); One Nation Becomes Many: The ACCESS Guide to the Former Soviet Union (with Stephen Young and Bruce Seymore II, Washington DC 1992); and Looking the Tiger in the Eye: Confronting the Nuclear Threat (with Carl Feldbaum, Harper & Row, 1988, 1990). The New York Times selected Looking the Tiger in the Eye as a Notable Book of the Year.

Ron currently serves as the California Professor of Record for the Oxford Study Abroad Programme (U.K.) in international relations and is writing a book for the U.S. Naval Institute Press on the new geopolitics of nuclear weapons. He has served as the Managing Director of the Hansen Summer Institute since its inception in 2007.