Status
Associate Professor
Contact
ctwomey@nps.edu
Research Interests
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 |
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Biography
Christopher P. Twomey is an Associate Professor of National Security Affairs (with tenure) at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. In 2004, he received his Ph.D from MIT in Political Science and joined the NPS faculty, later serving as Associate Chair for Research and as Director of the Center for Contemporary Conflict from 2007-09. Today, he works closely with the Departments of Defense and State on a range of diplomatic engagements across Asia and regularly advises PACOM, STRATCOM, and the Office of Net Assessment. His book—The Military Lens: Doctrinal Differences and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations (Cornell, 2010)—explains how differing military doctrines complicate diplomatic signaling, interpretations of those signals, and assessments of the balance of power. He edited Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (2008), and his work has appeared in journals such as Asian Survey, Security Studies, Arms Control Today, Contemporary Security Policy, Asia Policy, Current History, and Journal of Contemporary China. He has previously taught or researched at Harvard, Boston College, RAND, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and IGCC and is currently a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research. He has lived in China several times, speaks and reads Chinese, and regularly travels to Asia.
His research interests center on security studies, Chinese foreign policy, general nuclear strategy, strategic culture, statecraft, and East Asian security in theory and practice. He has authored book chapters, published in such journals as Asian Survey, Security Studies, and Issues and Studies, and edited two books. His book, The Military Lens: Doctrinal Differences and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations, was published by Cornell in 2010.
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Recent Publications
The Military Lens: Doctrinal Difference and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010) "Asia's Complex Strategic Environment: Nuclear Multipolarity and Other Dangers," Asia Policy, 11 (January 2011): 51-78 "Limits of Coercion: Compellence, Deterrence, and Cross-Strait Political-Military Affairs," in Roger Cliff, Phillip C. Saunders, and Scott W. Harold, eds., Cross-Strait Relations: New Opportunities and Challenges for Taiwan's Security CF-279-OSD (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 2011): 47-64. - “Chinese-U.S. Strategic Affairs: Dangerous Dynamism,” Arms Control Today 39, no. 1 (January/February 2009).
“Explaining Chinese Foreign Policy toward North Korea: Navigating between the Scylla and Charybdis of Proliferation and Instability,” Journal of Contemporary China 17, no. 56 (August 2008): 401-23. “Lacunae in the Study of Culture in International Security,” Contemporary Security Policy 29, no. 2 (August 2008): 1-20. “Balancing Identity and Reality,” book review roundtable on David Kang, China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2008), Asia Policy, no. 6 (July 2008): 157-62. “Dangers and Prospects in Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Relations” in Twomey, ed., Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan/Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies, June 2008). “Comparing Perspectives: Dangers to Avoid, Prospects to Develop” in Twomey, ed., Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan/Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies, June 2008). ed., Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan/Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies, June 2008). “Conference Report: U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue, Phase III: The Role of National Perceptions of Security Environments in Shaping Sino-American Nuclear Affairs” (with Kali Shelor), Strategic Insights VII, No. 2 (April 2008). “US-China Strategic Dialogue, Phase II: Reducing Misperception and Increasing Mutual Trust in Sino-American Strategic Affairs,” NPS Technical Report, NPS-NS-07-001, April 2007.
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