Lincoln P. Bloomfield

Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield was an American academic and expert on foreign affairs who served as a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Biography

Bloomfield served in the US Navy and Office of Strategic Services during World War II, worked in the State Department in the early years of the United Nations until 1956, and in 1979 was director of global issues on the National Security Council during the Carter administration.
Bloomfield was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bloomfield's work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology included designing and leading war games aimed at preventing escalation to nuclear war and the development of the CASCON conflict analysis system, featuring an interactive software and database.
Bloomfield is credited with coining the term coalition of the willing. He taught for four semesters at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
Lincoln P. Bloomfield is the father of Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr., a former United States Defense Department, Office of the Vice President and State Department official.

Works

Books

. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.
. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1966.
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.
. New York: Knopf, 1969.
. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
. Edited with Harlan Cleveland. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.

Articles and essays

Foreign Affairs, Vol. 36, No. 4, July 1958, pp. 597-610. Naval War College Review, Vol. 20, No. 9, April 1968. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 53, No. 4, July 1975, pp. 743-755. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 60, No. 1, Fall 1981, pp. 87-105.

Reports

Alexandria, VA: Institute for Defense Analyses, 1962.
Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications, 1974.