Robert Jeffrey Art (born 1942) is Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University,[1][2] and Fellow at MIT Center for International Studies.
[3] He subscribes to the theory of neorealism, which argues that force still underlies the power structure in the modern world.
Professor Art is a former member of the Secretary of Defense's Long Range Planning Staff (1982) and a former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis, and has consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Naval Postgraduate School, the U.S. Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the National War College (Beijing), the People's University (Beijing), the Institute for War Studies (King's College, London), the Free University of Berlin, the Konrad Adenauer Institute (Berlin), the NATO School (Oberammergau), and the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr (Hamburg).
Art has been critical of NATO's expansion, writing in 1998 that The United States and its NATO allies have gotten themselves into a real pickle […] [w]ith their decision to enlarge NATO by taking in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic […] How large can a NATO-without-Russia become before the West more or less permanently alienates Russia?