Status
Assistant Professor
Contact
alclunan@nps.edu
Research Interests
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 |
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Biography
Anne L. Clunan is an assistant professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. She earned her Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching interests focus on how states define and respond to new national security threats, and on the implications of globalization for state sovereignty and governance. She is co-editor, with Harold Trinkunas, of a forthcoming volume Ungoverned Spaces? Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty, which explores the threats and opportunities “ungoverned spaces”—ranging from the Afghan-Pakistan border to cyberspace—pose to states. Her most recent book is The Social Construction of Russia’s Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity and Security Interests (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). She is co-editor with Peter R. Lavoy and Susan B. Martin of Terrorism, War or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons (Stanford University Press, 2008), in which she examines the difficulties of correctly attributing the use of biological weapons as well as the requirements for creating information-sharing networks among public and private actors to do so more effectively.
Other recent publications include “The Fight Against Terrorist Financing” in Political Science Quarterly (Winter 2006/2007), “Globalization and the Impact of Norms on Defense Restructuring,” in Global Politics of Defense Reform (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), and contributions to Terrorist Attacks and Nuclear Proliferation: Strategies for Overlapping Dangers (Academy of Political Science, 2007), and Terrorism Financing and State Response in Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2007). She frequently gives papers at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and the International Studies Association Annual Convention.
Dr. Clunan works with the Center for Contemporary Conflict on emerging security threats. She also works with the Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies on the problems militaries and humanitarian organizations face in rebuilding war-torn countries and managing complex humanitarian emergencies, and with the Center for Civil-Military Relations on defense decision-making.
Prior to her academic career, Clunan launched the Civic Education Project, Inc., an international non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting civil society and educational development in transitioning countries. In 1999 she received the Velvet Revolution Award from the Czech and Slovak governments for her work promoting democracy and friendship between the peoples of the Czech and Slovak Republics and the United States of America. She has worked and traveled extensively in Central Eastern and Western Europe and the former Soviet Union. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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