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Melvin Goodman is a Senior Fellow and Director of the National Security Program at the Center for International Policy. He is a former professor of International Security Studies and Chairman of the International Relations Department at the National War College (1986-2004). He was Division Chief and Senior Analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency, from 1966 to 1990, and was a Senior Analyst at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State Department, from 1974 to 1976. He was an Intelligence Adviser to the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks in Vienna and Washington.

He is co-author of The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze (2nd edition, Brassey's, 2001), The Phantom Defense, America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion (Praeger, 2001) and Bush League Diplomacy; How the Neoconservatives are Putting the World at Risk (Prometheus, 2004). He is a Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy (1995- ), and is Adjunct Professor of Government, Johns Hopkins University (1995- ).

Mr. Goodman has lectured at universities throughout the United States, and published many book chapters, journal and magazine articles, and newspaper op-ed pieces. Forthcoming books are Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (Rowman and Littlefield), and Lessons of the Cold War, Penn State Press, 2004.