Patrick Belton
Education	Oxford University D.Phil. in Politics and International Relations (expected 2006) Doctoral dissertation: Congressmen as Diplomats: the role of Congress in U.S. China and Russia policy in the post Cold War period.
	Yale University M.A. in International Relations, transferred to doctoral candidacy at Oxford
	University of Notre Dame B.A. with Honours whilst contemplating entry into Catholic priesthood; triple major in government, philosophy, and pre-medicine; minor in public policy.
Awards	Fulbright Scholar, National Merit Scholar
Publications	Co-editor, Oxblog (www.oxblog.com), a widely-read electronic international affairs magazine (monthly readership 140,000, as of March 2004); in a recent survey of electronic media, named by the Washington Post as second place in its international affairs category. Articles ‘Security in the Palestinian Territories,’ Security Dialogue, forthcoming. ‘After the Hamas Victory, What Next for Fateh?’, cfr.org, January 30, 2006. ‘Letter from a Burning Banlieue’, Spiked Magazine, 14 November 2005. ‘France and Its Muslims,’ Times Literary Supplement, July 31, 2005. ‘7/7 and 7/21,’ Weekly Standard, July 2005. ‘Getting On with the Neighbours: Four Analyses of U.S.-Mexican Diplomacy’, review article, Journal of Mexican Studies, forthcoming ‘Patrick and the Oirish,’ The Emigrant (Galway), March 17, 2005. ‘Power and Democracy’, review in Democratization, summer 2005. ‘How World Capitals See Bush and Kerry,’ The Hill, November 8, 2004. ‘The American Elections,’ The Week (India), November 7, 2004. ‘Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behaviour’, review essay in China Quarterly, winter 2004. ‘Bloomsday: A Century’, The Emigrant (Galway), June 16, 2004. ‘In the Way of the Prophet: Institutions and Ideologies in a U.S. Isl¯a  mic Community,’ Next American City, autumn 2003. ‘An Encyclopaedia of National Missile Defence,’ Council on Foreign Relations, Summer 2002. ‘Janie Flores and the Children Who Pick Our Grapes,’ Peace Review, September 2000. Reviews in press at British Politics, Irish Political Review, and Irish Studies Review. Book chapters ‘Terrorists and the Tube: Lessons to be Learnt from the British Experience in Critical Infrastructure Protection,’ in James Forrest (ed.), Homeland Security: Protecting Targets, Praeger (2006 forthcoming). ‘Playing in Pretoria: How Foreign Governments Followed the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election,’ in Thomasz Pludowski (ed.), American Politics, Media, and Elections: Contemporary International Perspectives on US Presidency, Foreign Policy, and Political Communication. Warsaw and Torun: Collegium Civitas Press and Adam Marszalek (2006 forthcoming). ‘Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Bosnia’, in James Forrest (ed.), Countering Terrorism in the 21^st Century, Praeger (2007 forthcoming). Articles in encyclopaedias ‘Democracy’, Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford University Press) ‘Bush (41),’ ‘Clinton,’ ‘Bush (43),’ ‘James Lilley’ and ‘Winston Lord’, Historical Dictionary of Sino-American Relations (McFarland). ‘Hume’ and ‘Nietzsche,’ Encyclopaedia of Politics: the Left and the Right (Sage). ‘Madison’, Encyclopedia of Presidents and International Relations (Greenwood) Encyclopaedia of Congress (Facts on File), essays on congressional foreign policy and norms and mores Encyclopaedia of the Jazz Age (Sharpe), articles on U.S. foreign relations in the 1930s with the European powers, China, Japan, Latin America, and the League of Nations. City and Urban Life (Sharpe), entries on urban studies topics in Mexico, Central Asia, Iran, and Great Britain and Ireland. Current book projects In the Way of the Prophet, book project on Muslim communities in Britain, France and America. Hands Across, an edited interdisciplinary volume on racial integration in municipalities in Britain and the United States, from the perspective of several academic disciplines, and including institutional and geographic case studies. Freedom Shall You Seek, book collection of interviews with human rights and democracy activists in authoritarian countries and nations making democratic transitions, with focus on China, Iran, Pakistan, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, and Uzbekistan
Professional Experience 2003 - present	President, the Foreign Policy Society (website www.foreignpolicysociety.org), a foreign policy research and professional association for young national security professionals, with chapters in London, Paris, Washington, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Haven, Chicago, Houston, Miami, and Oxford. The national program has a membership of over 1,000, and organizes expert panels, discussion roundtables, and the nation’s largest foreign policy essay contest. The studies department has seven regional and five topical programs, with a research staff of three dozen fellows and two dozen intern researchers drawn respectively from current academics and students at Oxford, Yale, Harvard and Stanford universities. Director, Ibn Khaldun Project for Internet Political Media, dedicated to the translation of English-language political journalism drawn from across the ideological spectrum into Arabic and Farsi. Co-Director, Hands Across Our City, a non-profit organization encouraging cross-communal friendships in several ethnically-divided cities in Britain and the United States and sponsoring a race study group, due to issue a report in later 2005 making recommendations at the civil society and policy levels for furthering racial integration.
2005 – present	Freelance Journalist. Covering Palestinian politics from Ramallah and Gaza, the Paris banlieue riots of 2005 from the banlieue of Aulnay-sous-Bous, and events along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Work has appeared on the BBC, the Australian Broadcast Corporation and Public Radio International.
2000 – 2004	Tutor in International Relations, Oxford University, various colleges. Teach papers on classical, Renaissance, and modern theories of international relations; American foreign policy; and comparative politics of the Middle East.
2001 – 2002	Researcher, Yale Law School and Council on Foreign Relations (New Haven and New York) Worked with Laurence Korb, CFR Vice President and Director of Studies, with research on National Missile Defence and revolutions in military affairs, and with Professor Bruce Ackerman of the Yale Law School on research for a forthcoming book on citizenship in the United States.
Summer 2000	U.S. Mission to NATO, Political Section (Brussels) Analysed the sentiment of Nato allies on Kosovo, Bosnia, NATO-Russia relations, and ESDI. Composed speeches for U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow. Served as official notetaker in meetings of the North Atlantic Council and other NATO bodies.
Jan. – Aug. 1999	Visiting Research Professor, University of Guanajuato (Guanajuato, Mexico) Interviewed security and foreign ministry officials to construct an overview of bilateral political and security relations, focusing on humanitarian-security tradeoffs in migration policy. Designed a reworked migrant education program, implemented by the McFarland, Calif. school district.
Jan. – Aug. 1999	Consultant, USAID Mission in Mexico City (Mexico City, Mexico), with focus on public health issues associated with labour migration.
1998 – 2000	Congressional Aide, Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (New Haven), and Senator Charles S. Robb (Virginia), with focus on national security legislation and immigration casework.
Media	Media appearances as a commentator on politics on the BBC, NPR, CNN, ABC, C-SPAN and CBS radio, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, and the Associated Press.
Languages	Fluent Spanish, Italian, French; intermediate Uzbek, Russian, Uyghur; beginning Urdu, Hindi, Arabic. Some Irish.
Professional and Civic Activities	Founding editor, H-Democracy, the nascent listserv for academics and practitioners in the democratization field • Member, Mensa, Chatham House, International Studies Association, NUJ