Status
Lecturer
Contact
safield@nps.edu
Research Interests
Middle East; International relations |
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Biography
Dr. Scott Field is a Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Studies, University of California-Berkeley.
An ecologist by training, he received his PhD from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1997, held a Golda Meir Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel from 1997 to 1999 and teaching and research positions at the Universities of Queensland and Adelaide in Australia from 2000 to 2005.
Between 2005 and 2007 he held a World Peace Fellowship at UC Berkeley, focusing on International Security and the Middle East, and studying Arabic. His research interests include Iranian and Palestinian domestic political dynamics and their implications for regional conflicts, and in the summer of 2006 he undertook fieldwork in the West Bank and Israel on the entry of Hamas into the political arena.
He also has interests in the application of methods and models from ecology and evolution to international security issues, in the role of the private sector in limiting threats from biological weapon, and the links between global environmental change and security. He currently teaches courses in International Relations and Middle East Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School.
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