Faculty & Staff
John E. Endicott
Professor Emeritus
Project Leader - Limited Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
John Endicott is Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, and Director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy. He received his Ph.D. in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a program run jointly by Tufts University and Harvard in 1974. He also holds a B.A. in political science from The Ohio State University, a Masters in history from the University of Omaha, a Masters in international affairs and a Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School. His areas of specialization include all aspects of Japanese studies, Asian security studies, with special emphasis on the Korean Peninsula, American defense policy, and professional military education. His published books include, Japan’s Nuclear Option, The Politics of East Asia, American Defense Policy, and Regional Security Issues. A new book on American foreign policy written by Endicott and two colleagues, U.S. Foreign Policy: History, Process, and Policy, was published in 2004.
Dr. Endicott came to the Georgia Institute of Technology in July, 1989, after a 31-year career in government - 28 with the United States Air Force and three as a member of the Senior Executive Service of the Department of Defense. As an officer of the United States Air Force, he held various positions in the intelligence, education and policy arenas, including: Deputy Head of the Political Science Department at the United States Air Force Academy; Director, International Affairs for the Planning Directorate of Air Force Headquarters, the Pentagon; Deputy Air Force Representative to the Military Staff Committee of the Security Council, the United Nations; Associate Dean of the National War College; Director of the Research Directorate and NDU Press at the National Defense University; and acting Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, NDU, Washington, D.C. Upon retiring as a Colonel in 1986, he was immediately elevated to SES-4 in the Senior Executive Service (Maj.Gen./Lt. General Equivalent) and was appointed Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, a policy-oriented research organization serving both the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. His operational experience included assignments with SAC Headquarters during the Cuban Missile Crisis; service with the 522nd Fighter Squadron, VNAF with fifty combat missions; and Chief of Target Plans with 5th Air Force during the Pueblo Crisis.
Aside from his position as Professor of International Affairs at the Sam Nunn School at Georgia Tech, he currently co-chairs the Council for U.S.-Japan Security Relations and has served as the Chairman of the Interim Secretariat of the Limited Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone for Northeast Asia since 1996. He received the Mike Mansfield Award from the Japan-America Society of Georgia in 1996 and was designated as Outstanding Professor of the Year by ANAK, a Georgia Tech honor society, in 1997. Dr. Endicott serves on the Executive Board of the Japan-America Society of Georgia, and was elected to the post of Executive Vice Chairman for the Southeast Korea America Friendship Society in April 2000. Since joining the faculty, he has held two appointments from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to serve as a member of the PAJE Commission charged with reviewing the professional military educational system. In April 2004 he was elected President of the Korea-Southeast U.S. Chamber of Commerce and was appointed a visiting professor at Montesquieu University of Bordeaux IV. Both Dr. Endicott and the Limited Nuclear Weapons Free Zone for Northeast Asia program were nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. The Marine Corps Coordinating Council of Greater Atlanta presented him the General Raymond G. Davis award in 2006.
He is married to the former Mitsuyo Kobayashi of Tokyo and they have two children, Charlene Noble and John, and four grandchildren.