faculty

John van Oudenaren

Adjunct Professor in the BMW Center for German and European Studies
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983

John Van Oudenaren is chief of the European Division at the Library of Congress. Prior to joining the Library, he was a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation and director of RAND's European office in Delft, the Netherlands. He has served on the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State and has been a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He received his Ph. D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his A.B. in Germanic Languages and Literature from Princeton University.

Professor Van Oudenaren's publications include Detente in Europe (Duke University Press, 1991), Uniting Europe: European Integration and the Post-Cold War World (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), and numerous articles, chapters and reports on Europe, Russia, and U.S. foreign policy. He has taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, George Washington University, and American University.