CURRICULUM VITAE

LOUIS L. ORTMAYER

Born: November 3, 1945
Department of Political Science Married, two children
Davidson College Telephone (704) 892-2459
Davidson, North Carolina 28036 Home: (704) 892-1172
" loortmayer@davidson.edu"

Education

B.A. - Yale University (cum laude) 1967
M.A., Ph.D.- Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver 1973/1975
(Studies in Politics, Universities of Bonn and Cologne, Germany 1969 - 1974)

Teaching Experience

1977 -- Professor of Political Science (1989), Davidson College
1975-1977 Assistant Professor of Government, St. John's University, Minnesota
1974-1975 Teaching Assistant, GSIS, University of Denver

Professional and Administrative Experience

1996- 1997 President, Active Learning in International Affairs Section, ISA
1993, 1994 Faculty, Pew Faculty Fellowship Program, Harvard University
1990 - Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs, Harvard University
1989 - Research Fellow, Center for East-West Trade Policy, Univ. of Georgia
1988-1993 Executive Council, International Studies Association/South
1982-1985 Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Davidson College
1982, 1995 Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, Davidson College

Honors and Awards

Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award (1999), alumni award for best professor, ($7500 stipend, and $7500 for special teaching/research project)
Professor of the Year, North Carolina (1993), Council for the Advancement and
Support of Education (CASE)
Thomas Jefferson Award (1989), Davidson College's highest faculty recognition
Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) Teaching Award (1983), chosen by students
Fulbright Fellowship, Germany (Bonn University) (1985-86)
German Academic Exchange Service Fellow, Germany (1979, 1983)
Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Fellowship, Germany (1973-1974)

Publications

Confronting Dilemmas: Case Studies in American Foreign Policy (manuscript, to be published by F.E. Peacock Press, Chicago, 2001)

"Somalia: Misread Crises and Missed Opportunities," with Ken Menkhaus, in Bruce W. Jentleson (ed.), 

Preventive Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World: Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized, and Lessons to be Learned (New York: Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Violence, 1999)

"NAFTA and Economic Integration: Three Perspectives," in Dorinda G. Dallmeyer (ed.), Joining Together, Standing Apart: National Identities After NAFTA (London: Kluwer Law International, 1997)

Key Decisions in the Somalia Intervention, with Ken Menkhaus, (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University and the Pew Charitable Trusts, 1995)

Hamstrung Over Haiti: Returning the Refugees (Institute of Diplomacy, Georgetown
University and The Pew Charitable Trusts, 1993, rev. 1994)
The U.S.-Japanese FSX Fighter Agreement (Institute of Diplomacy, Georgetown University and The Pew Charitable Trusts, 1992)
Conflict, Compromise, and Conciliation: West German-Polish Normalization 1966 1976 (Denver: Social Science Foundation Monograph, 1976)
"The Fall of Margaret Thatcher," (Institute of Diplomacy, Georgetown Univ., 1995)
"Decisions and Dilemmas: Writing Case Studies in International Affairs," Special Issue: Case Teaching in International Relations, International Studies Notes, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 1994
"The Pipeline, East-West Trade, and U.S.-Soviet Relations," Politics and Policy,
Vol. VI, 1986 (Oral Parks Award)
"West Germany and the Developing World," in Gregory Raymond and Philip Taylor (eds.), The Industrial States and the Developing World (Greenwood Press, 1982)
"Accommodation or Delusion? Vatican Diplomacy in Eastern Europe," Journal of Church and State, Vol. 20, Spring 1978

Additional Manuscripts:
The Politics of Economic Power: German Foreign Economic Policy (draft manuscript)
Series of contemporary case studies in German politics and foreign policy (in draft)

Teaching Fields

American Foreign Policy, International Politics, International Political Economy, West European Politics, Russian and Post-Soviet States Politics, Postwar Germany

Languages

German (fluent), French (near fluency), Polish (reading knowledge)

Other
Co-Director, Case Writing Workshop, IAN (International Affairs Network),
International Management Development Institute, Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs, U. Of Pittsburgh, 1999 (15 scholars from Russia,
the Newly Independent States (NIS), and Eastern Europe, casebook editor
Consultant, IAN, Prague Conference, Central and East European ISA, 1999
Staff and Consultant, United States Institute of Peace, Faculty Workshop ("Conflict &
Peacemaking in an Evolving World"), Washington, July 1994
Lecturer, United States Information Agency, Mexico City (November 22-27, 1993)
"NAFTA, United States Policy, and the GATT"
Instituto Matias Romero de Estudios Diplomaticos (IMRED), Ministry of
Foreign Relations
Graduate Economics Faculty, Autonomous National University (UNAM)
Universidad de las Americas