P. Terrence Hopmann

Brown University

P. Terrence Hopmann is a professor of international relations in the Conflict Management Program at in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a professor emeritus of political science at Brown University. At the time of filming, he was professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Brown University. He works primarily in the areas of international security, negotiation, and conflict management. Hopmann received his BA from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and his MA and PhD in Political Science from Stanford University. He has been a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Foreign Ministries of Mexico and Brazil, and to the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica. He has also worked with the Training Program of the U.S. Institute of Peace. In addition, Hopmann developed and managed an on-line training course for U.S. volunteers with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe maintained by the U.S. Institute of Peace for the Department of State. Hopmann is author of The Negotiation Process and the Resolution of International Conflicts (University of South Carolina Press, 1996).

Hopmann’s videos are used in these Choices Program curriculum units:
The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy
Russia’s Transformation: Challenges for U.S. Policy
The U.S. Role in a Changing World
The United Nations: Challenges and Change