to work together again thirty years later in August 2003, when Bremer was named by President George W. Bush to lead the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and Blackwill was named to the National Security Council staff to coordinate between Washington, D.C. and Baghdad. From 1975 to 1978, Blackwill served as a political-military officer in London, England. He served as political counselor in Tel Aviv, Israel from 1978 to 1979. Blackwill became the Director of Western European Affairs on the National Security Council staff at the White House in 1979. 1980s Blackwill served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs in the State Department in 1981. Blackwill served as principal deputy assistant secretary for European Affairs from 1982 to 1983. After his return from a two-year sabbatical at Harvard University, President Ronald Reagan nominated him to Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor on March 29, 1985, and designated him to be the chief negotiator of the US with the Warsaw Pact for the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks. Blackwill served in this position with the rank of Ambassador. On March 13, 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed Blackwill as special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and as senior director for European and Soviet Affairs. Academic career From 1983 to 1985, Blackwill took a sabbatical from the State Department and served as associate dean and faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. After two years as representative to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions Negotiations, Blackwill rejoined the Harvard faculty in 1987. There, he served the Kennedy School as associate dean and the Belfer Lecturer in International Security for fourteen years until 2001. During his tenure, Blackwill taught foreign and defense policy and public policy analysis. He was also faculty chair for executive training programs for business and government leaders from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Palestinian Authority, and Kazakhstan, as well as military General Officers from Russia and the People's Republic of China. Books and articles While at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Blackwill contributed to the following books and articles: Conventional Arms Control and East-West Security (1989, nonfiction, co-editor) A Primer for the Nuclear Age (1990, nonfiction, co-editor) New Nuclear Nations (1993, nonfiction, co-edited with Albert Carnesale) Damage Limitation or Crisis? Russia and the Outside World (1994, nonfiction, with Sergei Karaganov) "Engaging Russia: Arms Control