Education: AB (Hons), Political Science, University of California, Berkeley 1976; studied in Heidelberg, Germany; PhD (with Distinction), International Relations, University of Southern California 1981

Career: Keith Payne is CEO, President and Co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, a non-profit research centre located in Fairfax, Virginia. At the National Institute, he directs and participates in studies on US strategic policy and force posture issues, arms control, BMD, and Russian foreign policy. Dr Payne is also Head of the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University. On leave from the National Institute in 2002 and 2003, Dr Payne served in the Department of Defense as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy. Dr Payne is a member of the State Department's Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board, the Policy Chair of the Strategic Command's Senior Advisory Group and a member of its Missile Defense Assessment Team, a member of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee's Nuclear Deterrent Transformation Panel, serves on the Defense Science Board, and is Co-Chair of the Nuclear Strategy Forum. He has served as a participant or leader of numerous governmental and private studies, including White House studies of US-Russian cooperation, Defense Department studies of missile defence, arms control, and proliferation, and as Co-Chairman of the Department of Defense's Deterrence Concepts Advisory Group. He also has served as a consultant to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and participated in the 1998 ‘Rumsfeld Study’ of missile proliferation. Dr Payne testifies frequently before Congressional Committees, and has lectured on defence and foreign policy issues at numerous colleges and universities in North America, Europe and Asia. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Comparative Strategy (see url below).

Honours and awards: Distinguished Public Service Medal, Secretary of Defense, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Forces Policy Office

Publications include: author, co-author or editor of 16 books and monographs, including Nuclear Deterrence in U.S. – Soviet Relations 1982, Nuclear Strategy: Flexibility and Stability 1978, Laser Weapons in Space 1983, The Nuclear Freeze Controversy (editor and contributor) 1984, Missiles for the Nineties: ICBMs, and Strategic Policy 1984, Strategic Defense: “Star Wars” in Perspective 1986, Why SDI? 1985, A Just Defense: The Use of Force, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Conscience 1987, Nuclear Peacekeeping: The U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Nuclear Deterrence (co-author) 1990, Missile Defense in the 21st Century: Protection Against Limited Threats 1991, Proliferation, westliche Sicherheit and begrenzte Ranketenabwehr 1992, Countering Proliferation: New Criteria for European Security 1992, Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age 1996, The Case Against Nuclear Abolition and For Nuclear Deterrence 1997, Post-Cold War Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Policy 1998, The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence and a New Direction 2001; more than 80 articles in professional journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Orbis, Europäische Sicherheit, Policy Review, Strategic Review, Washington Quarterly, Jane's Intelligence Review, Militare Spectator, Air University Review, Comparative Strategy, Air Force Magazine, Issues In Science and Technology, Military Review, Parameters, Harper's, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor and USA Today

Contact details: Address: National Institute for Public Policy, 9302 Lee Highway, Suite 750, , Fairfax, VA 22031, USA; Tel: +1 703-293-9181; Email: keith.payne@nipp.org ; Website: http://www.nipp.org/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01495933.asp/ .