Naval Postgraduate School

CCC People

Personnel

CCC Director

Anne L. Clunan
Director, Center for Contemporary Conflict; Associate Professor
International institutions; Emerging security threats; Globalization and governance; Sovereignty; Post-conflict reconstruction and humanitarian assistance; International law and organization; Russia and the former Soviet Union

CCC Executive Director

Sandra R. Leavitt
Executive Director, Center for Contemporary Conflict; Assistant Research Professor
Social mobilization and contentious politics; Southeast Asia; Policymaking in developing states; Muslim minorities and state-minority relations

NSA Faculty

Donald Abenheim
Associate Professor; Civil-Military Relations
History of war in Europe; Politics and society in Central Europe; Germany, 1648-present

Anne Marie Baylouny
Assistant Professor
Comparative politics and political economy; Middle East and North Africa; Social movements, protest, and terrorism; Political Islam

Thomas C. Bruneau
Distinguished Professor of National Security Affairs; Program Manager for Latin America; Academic Liaison
Civil-military relations; Latin America

Colonel Mark Brice Chakwin, U.S. Army
U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer Chair and Senior Army Representative
East Asia; Southeast Asia; Intelligence; U.S. Foreign Policy; Strategic Studies

Erik Dahl
Assistant Professor
Intelligence; Terrorism; Security studies; National security policy; International relations theory

Zachary S. Davis
Visiting Research Professor
Intelligence; WMD proliferation; South Asia

Ken R. Dombroski
Lecturer
Peace operations; Conflict in the Middle East, Civil-military relations, Intelligence sector reform; U.S. national security policy and strategy

CAPT Timothy J. Doorey, USN
Senior Intelligence Officer
Intelligence; Naval strategy and tactics; Crisis management

Sophal Ear
Assistant Professor
Comparative politics and political economy of development; Southeast Asia; Post-conflict reconstruction (particularly Cambodia); Aid effectiveness and governance

Scott A. Field
Lecturer
Middle East; International relations

Jeanne Giraldo
Lecturer
Counter-drug strategy and policy development; Civil-military relations; Political institutions

Mohammed M. Hafez
Associate Professor
Politics of the Middle East and North Africa; Islamic social movements; Jihadism; Terrorism and suicide bombings; Radicalization

Craig Hooper
Lecturer
Pacific basin; Littoral engagement and assault; Naval force structure; Emergent threats; Biological weaponry; Nonproliferation; Energy security; Critical infrastructure; Public health and security; Strategic communication; and Civil-military relations

Maiah Jaskoski
Assistant Professor
Latin American politics; Comparative politics; Military roles; State-society relations; and Theories of organization

CAPT Scott E. Jasper, USN
Chief Operating Officer and Lecturer, Center for Civil-Military Relations
Military transformation; Joint command and control; Force application

Thomas H. Johnson
Research Professor
South and Central Asia; Asymmetric conflict; WMD proliferation; Peace operations and peacekeeping; Modeling and simulation

Abbas Kadhim
Assistant Professor
Islamic history and politics; Iraq; Middle East history and politics; Political theory.

S. Paul Kapur
Associate Professor
Nuclear weapons proliferation; Deterrence; Ethno-religious violence; South Asian security

BRIG Feroz Khan, Pakistan Army (ret.)
Visiting Professor
South Asia politics, security, and arms control

Jeffrey Knopf
Associate Professor, Academic Associate for Security Studies
Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation; Public opinion and foreign policy; Theories of learning and cooperation in international relations

Letitia Lawson
Senior Lecturer
African politics

Ted Lewis
Professor
Critical infrastructure protection; Information technology

Robert E. Looney
Associate Chair for Instruction; Professor
Economic intelligence; Economics of national security; Economics of terrorism

Casey J. Lucius
Lecturer
Southeast Asia; Vietnamese politics and education; IR; Foreign policy

Tristan James Mabry
Assistant Research Professor; Executive Director, Joint Foreign Area Officer Skills Sustainment Pilot Program (JFSSPP)
Nationalism and ethnic conflict; Muslim states and societies; Eurasia; Language and identity politics

Michael S. Malley
Assistant Professor
Southeast Asia; Indonesian politics; Democratization; State formation, failure and survival; Causes and consequences of decentralization; Domestic politics and regional security in Southeast Asia; Nuclear nonproliferation

Alice Lyman Miller
Senior Lecturer
Chinese history, politics, and foreign policy

James (Clay) Moltz
Associate Professor
Space security; missile defense; nuclear proliferation/nonproliferation; Russian and Northeast Asian security; international relations theory; and U.S. national security policy.

Maria C. Morgan
Lecturer
Comparative development strategies; comparative political economies; foreign direct investment in China

Edward A. Olsen
Professor (Emeritus)
Japanese and Korean politics and foreign policy; Korean unification; U.S.-Northeast Asian security relations; U.S. foreign and defense policy

LTG Robert L. Ord, III, USA (ret.)
Director, Global Center for Security Cooperation
Operations and planning; Civil-military relations; Asian defense policies

Jessica Piombo
Assistant Professor; Regional Coordinator for Sub-Saharan Africa; and Co-Director, RSEP Planning and Content
African politics, specializing in Southern and South Africa; Comparative politics; Democratization and democratic consolidation; Political institutions; Electoral systems

Douglas Porch
Professor
European politics and security; Small wars and insurgencies; Security building; Imperialism and war in Asia

Maria Rasmussen
Associate Professor; Academic Associate for Security Studies
Terrorism; Counter-terrorism; Civil protection

Dirk Hans Rogalski
Visiting Lecturer
European and German Security and Defense Policy; NATO/EU Joint and Air Doctrine; NATO/EU Defense and Force Planning; NATO/EU Operational Planning; Interoperability and Standardization; European Defense Industries and Military Procurement; Transatlantic Relations.

James A. Russell
Senior Lecturer
Persian Gulf policy and security; U.S. security strategy in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East; Nuclear strategy; Proliferation of WMD; Transformation and defense strategy

Robin H. Sakoda
Visiting Lecturer
U.S.-Japan relations; East Asia; Pacific security; Civil-military relations

Zachary Shore
Associate Professor
International history; Strategy and policy; European security; Terrorism; Islam; Realism

Scott Nicholas Siegel
Assistant Professor
Compliance in international relations; Politics of the European Union; Europeanization; Comparative and international political economy; Western European politics; International law

Arturo C. Sotomayor
Assistant Professor
Civil-military relations; Latin America; Peacekeeping operations; Comparative foreign policy; International organizations

Robert Springborg
Professor
Political economy of the Middle East; Governmental institutions and processes; Democratization; European-Middle Eastern relation

Thomas J. Statler, LCDR, CHC, USN
Chaplain
Religious ethics; Philosophical ethics; Virtue (core values) formation and character transformation; Religious conviction in the public arena (church/state affairs)

Paul Stockton
On leave as Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Homeland security; U.S. foreign policy-making

Harold A. Trinkunas
Chair, Associate Professor
Democratization; Civil-military relations; Comparative politics

Mikhail Tsypkin
Associate Professor
Russian politics and security policy; the Russian navy

Christopher P. Twomey
Assistant Professor and Associate Chair for Research
Theories of international relations and security studies; Strategic culture; Perception; Military innovation; East Asian security; Chinese foreign and military policy; Chinese political and social development

Robert Weiner
Assistant Professor
Japan; East Asia; Comparative politics, political parties and elections; Democratic institutions and constitutional engineering; Research methods

James J. Wirtz
Dean, School of International Graduate Studies (SIGS); Professor
Nuclear strategy and counterproliferation; Intelligence; International relations theory

David S. Yost
Professor
NATO; European security; U.S. national security policy; Nuclear deterrence; Missile defense; Arms control; Political philosophy; International relations theory

CCC Research Staff

Rebekah Dietz
Senior Research Associate
South Asian security, WMD proliferation and interdiction, Illicit transnational networks

Colleen Garcia
Research Associate
Counterterrorism; Homeland security; Nonproliferation

Meghan Holcomb
Senior Research Associate
Middle East and South West Asian security, Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, WMD proliferation

Jeffrey A. Larsen
Senior Policy Analyst
Arms control; Nuclear policy; Strategic defenses; WMD proliferation; Homeland defense

Greta E. Marlatt
Library Liaison
Terrorism; Homeland security; Intelligence; Information warfare

Nick M. Masellis
Research Associate
Irregular warfare; Counterterrorism; Defense policy; Proliferation issues

Sarah Watson
Research Associate
Chinese regional security; Cyber warfare and security; Homeland security and all-hazards defenses

Barry Zellen
Research Director - Arctic Security Project; Editor, Strategic Insights; Web Commando, NSA Department and CCC
Arctic security; Tribal conflict and indigenous sovereignty; Geopolitics of climate change; Nuclear weapons strategy; Guerrilla warfare and terrorism; Philosophy of war; IR and strategic theory

RSEP Staff

RADM Stephen R. Loeffler, USN (Ret)
Co-Director, RSEP Development and Operations

Jessica Piombo
Co-Director, RSEP Planning and Content

CMDR Mark Huber
RSEP Advisor and Program Manager

Troy Johnson
RSEP Assistant Program Manager