Lincoln P. Bloomfield Explained

Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield
Birth Date:	1920
Death Date:	October 30, 2013 (aged 93)
Alma Mater:	Harvard University (BA, MPA, PhD)^[1]
Nationality:	American
Subject:	Foreign policy
Notableworks:	A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations: A Preliminary Survey of One Form of a Stable Military Environment (1962)
Children:	Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr.

Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield (1920-2013) an American academic and expert on foreign affairs who served as a professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^{[2] [3]}

Biography

Lincoln P. Bloomfield is the father of Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr., a United States Defense Department and State Department official.

Bloomfield served five United States Secretaries of State, held an administrative State Department position in the early years of the United Nations, and was director of global issues on the National Security Council during the Carter administration.

Bloomfield was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[4]

Bloomfield's work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology led to the development of the CASCON conflict analysis system.^[5] He taught for four semesters at the Graduate Institute of International Studies.^[6]

Works

Books

• International Military Forces: The Question of Peacekeeping in an Armed and Disarming World. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.
• Khrushchev and the Arms Race: Soviet Interests in Arms Control and Disarmament, 1954-1964. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1966.
• The United Nations and U.S. Foreign Policy: A New Look at the National Interest. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.
• Controlling Small Wars: A Strategy for the 1970's. New York: Knopf, 1969.
• The Foreign Policy Process: A Modern Primer. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
• Prospects for Peacemaking: A Citizen's Guide to Safer Nuclear Strategy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.

Articles and essays

• "The U.N. and National Security." Foreign Affairs, Vol. 36, No. 4, July 1958, pp. 597-610.
• "Conflict Resolution: U.N. Nonfighting Forces." Naval War College Review, Vol. 20, No. 9, April 1968.
• "Nuclear Spread and World Order." Foreign Affairs, Vol. 53, No. 4, July 1975, pp. 743-755.
• "The Arctic: Last Unmanaged Frontier." Foreign Affairs, Vol. 60, No. 1, Fall 1981, pp. 87-105.

Reports

• A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations: A Preliminary Survey of One Form of a Stable Military Environment. Alexandria, VA: Institute for Defense Analyses, 1962.
• The Foreign Policy Process: Making Theory Relevant (International Studies Series). Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications, 1974.

External links

• A Guide to the Papers of Lincoln P. Bloomfield at MIT.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield, professor emeritus of political science, dies at 93 . 6 November 2013 .
2. News: Bryan Marquard . Lincoln P. Bloomfield, 93; helped create tools to contain conflict . 21 April 2019 . . . November 12, 2013.
3. News: Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield, professor emeritus of political science, dies at 93 . November 5, 2013 . April 22, 2019 . Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
4. Book: Annual Report, September 1, 1975-August 31, 1976 . 1976 . . New York, NY . Membership Roster.
5. Web site: Bloomfield . Lincoln P. . Moulton . Allen . MIT Cascon System for Analyzing International Conflict . . 28 November 2022 . 2008.
6. Web site: 2013-11-06 . Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield, professor emeritus of political science, dies at 93 . 2023-12-17 . MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology . en.