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Education:
Ph.D., M.A., Tufts University
B.A.,
United States Military Academy (West Point)
Dr. Jeffrey D. McCausland is a Visiting Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Penn State's Dickinson
School of Law. From 2004 through November 2006, he served as the director of the Leadership Initiative at Dickinson College.
In this capacity he conducted leadership development seminars for over two hundred educators from major urban school districts
across the United States, hosted senior Indian and Pakistani officials for discussions and lectures on the ongoing
disagreement between their two countries, and organized a major conference focused on the future of the Special Relationship
between the United States and United Kingdom.
Dr. McCausland served for more than thirty years in the United States Army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy
at West Point in 1972 and was commissioned in field artillery. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger Schools
as well as the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, KS. He holds both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
During his military career, Dr. McCausland served in a variety of command and staff positions both in the United States and Europe.
This included director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council Staff during the Kosovo crisis. He also
worked on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) as a member of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for
Operations, U.S. Army Staff, the Pentagon. Following this assignment he assumed command of a field artillery battalion stationed in
Europe and deployed his unit to Saudi Arabia for Operations Desert Shield and Storm in 1990 and 1991. He completed his active duty
service in 2002 culminating his career as dean of academics at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Upon his
retirement in 2002 he was awarded the Class of 1961 Chair of Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy.
He has both published and lectured broadly on leadership, military affairs, European security, the Gulf War, and arms control
throughout the United States and over twelve countries. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University; Conflict Studies Research Center, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Stiftung Wissenshaft und Politk,
Ebenhausen, Germany; George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies, Garmisch, Germany; and the International Institute
for Strategic Studies, London.
He has also served as a member of numerous panels on leadership and character development. These include the Chief of Staff
Army's Blue Ribbon Panel on Training and Leader Development (2001); the Character Review Panel for the Superintendent, U.S.
Air Force Academy (2002); as well as providing advice and assistance to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force's Aerospace Leader
Development Panel.
Dr. McCausland is an adjunct fellow at both the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) as well as the RAND
Corporation in Washington. He is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs based in New York
City and a member of the advisory board to the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.
He also serves as a national security consultant to CBS television and radio, and has been a frequent commentator on the war
in Iraq and Afghanistan for CBS since 2003. In this capacity he has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post,
Boston Globe, and Christian Science Monitor. He is interviewed frequently on CBS radio and appeared on the
CBS Evening News, Morning Show, and Up to the Minute. He has also appeared on CNN Morning Show, CSPAN
Booknotes, MSNBC, and Al Jazeera.
Contact Information:
Email: jdm41@psu.edu
Phone: (717)
240-5209
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