シラキュース大学特別教授。
2011-16年に同大学のマックスウェル行政大学院長。
2009-11年にはオバマ政権の国務副長官としてクリントン国務長官を支えた。
2005年-08年にテキサス大学オースティン校リンドン・B・ジョンソン公共政策大学院長、2001年-05年にブルッキングス研究所の副所長兼外交政策研究部長。
1996年から2000年にかけてはクリントン政権で国家安全保障問題担当の大統領副補佐官。外交・安全保障分野の専門家の養成機関として知られるジョンズ・ホプキンス大学高等国際関係大学院の学長に11月に就任予定。
主な著書に、米中関係の安定化の方策を説いた「A Glass Half Full? Rebalance, Reassurance and Resolve in the US-China Relationship」 (Brookings Institution Press, 2017)、「米中衝突を避けるために:戦略的再保証と決意」(日本経済新聞出版社、2015年、原著はプリンストン大学出版会、2014年)などがある(上記の2点はいずれもマイケル・オハロン氏との共書)。
イエール大学法科大学院で法学博士号を取得。
The Honorable James B. Steinberg is University Professor of Social Science, International
Affairs and Law at Syracuse University, where he was Dean of the Maxwell School from
July 2011 until June 2016. Prior to becoming Dean he served as Deputy Secretary of State,
the principal deputy to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, from 2009-2011. From 2005-
2008, Steinberg was Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. From 2001 to
2005, Mr. Steinberg was vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the
Brookings Institution.
Mr. Steinberg will assume the position of Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in November.
Mr. Steinberg was deputy national security advisor to President Clinton from 1996 to 2000.
During that period he also served as the president’s personal representative to the 1998
and 1999 G-8 summits. Prior to becoming deputy national security advisor, Mr. Steinberg
held positions as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He is the
recipient of the Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award, American Political Science Association
(2014), the CIA Director’s Medal (2011) and the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service
Award (2011).
Steinberg’s most recent books are A Glass Half Full? Rebalance, Reassurance and
Resolve and Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century
(both with Michael O’Hanlon Recent book chapters include “Present at the Recreation: The
Role of the State Department in Formulating and Implementing US Global Policy” in
Nicholas Burns and Jonathan Price, eds., America’s National Security Architecture (Aspen
Institute, 2016); “United States: Grappling with Rising Powers” in William I. Hitchcock,
Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro, eds., Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing
World (Harvard University Press, 2016) and “History, Policymaking, and the Balkans:
Lessons Imported and Lessons Learned” in Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri, eds., The Power
of the Past, History and Statecraft, (Brookings Institution Press, 2015). He has also
authored Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power
(Brookings 2008) with Kurt Campbell.
Mr. Steinberg received his A.B from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He
is married to Sherburne Abbott, University Professor at Syracuse University. They have two
children, Jenna and Emma Steinberg.