Richard Ullman is the David K.E. Bruce Professor Emeritus of International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School since 1988, having joined Princeton in 1965. He was awarded emeritus status in 2001. Ullman has devoted a lifetime to studying and writing about foreign and defense policy -- not only as a teacher, but also as a journalist and a policy adviser. In addition to spending three decades as a professor at Princeton, he has also served as a member of the editorial board of The New York Times, as editor of the journal Foreign Policy and on the staffs of the National Security Council and the Defense Department during the Johnson administration. During 1999 and 2000 he again worked in Washington, this time as a member of the State Department's policy planning staff and director of its Kosovo History Project.

Ullman's scholarship primarily has been devoted to exploring how nations get along with each other. He is the author of a three-volume work on Anglo-Soviet relations during the years following World War I. His most recent books have been a study of the dynamics of European security in the post-Cold War period titled "Securing Europe" and an edited collection, "The World and Yugoslavia's Wars."