James Steinberg

Dean James Steinberg is the 10th Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he served as a University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs and Law at Syracuse University, where he was the Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs for five years. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Secretary of State to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton (2009-2011) and as the Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin (2005-2008). Before that, he was the vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (2001-2005). Dean Steinberg was deputy national security advisor to President Bill Clinton (1996-2000). His most recent books are A Glass Half Full?: Rebalance, Reassurance, and Resolve in the U.S.-China Strategic Relationship (Brookings, 2017) and Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton, 2014). He has also authored Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power (Brookings, 2008) with Kurt Campbell. Dean Steinberg received his A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.