Jonathan Wilkenfeld

University of Maryland

Professor, Political Science/International Relations

301-405-4140

Ph.D., Political Science, Indiana University, 1969.

Jonathan Wilkenfeld is Director for the Center for International Development and Conflict Management as well as a professor and prior chair of the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. He is a specialist in foreign policy decision making and crisis behavior, as well as in the use of simulation in political science. He is the Director of the International Communication and Negotiation Simulations (ICONS) Project at the University of Maryland. The development of the ICONS simulations grew out of his long-term interest in integrating technology and simulation techniques into the teaching of negotiation and international politics. In 1994, he won the Distinguished Program Award presented by the Maryland Association for Higher Education for the ICONS instructional model. Under his direction, the ICONS Project won the 2001 University of Maryland Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology.
His most recent books include A Study of Crisis (1997 and 2000, with Michael Brecher) and Negotiating a Complex World (1999, with Brigid Starkey and Mark Boyer). His current work focuses on the use of experimental techniques to study the mediation process in international crisis negotiations and how decision makers learn from previous crisis experience.