Status
Senior Lecturer; Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Conflict
Contact
jarussel@nps.edu
Research Interests
Politics and security in the Gulf States; U.S. security strategy in the
Persian Gulf and the Middle East; Nuclear strategy; Proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction; Transnational terrorist networks,
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Biography
James A. Russell is managing editor of Strategic Insights, the bi-monthly e-journal published by the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. He also serves as senior lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at NPS, where he is teaching courses on Middle East security affairs, terrorism, and national security strategy.
His articles and commentaries have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News, Security and Terrorism Research Bulletin, World Defence Systems, Middle East Policy, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Comparative Strategy, Middle East Review of International Affairs, Joint Forces Quarterly, Naval War College Review, the Nonproliferation Review and Contemporary Security Policy. His latest article, “Non-State Actors and the 2016 Proliferation Environment: Peering Into the Abyss,” appeared in the Winter 2005/6 issue of the Nonproliferation Review. In 2006, Palgrave/MacMillan ( New York) published two books edited by Mr. Russell: (1) WMD Proliferation in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century; and (2) Critical Issues Facing the Middle East: Security, Politics and Economics.
From 1988-2001, Mr. Russell held a variety of positions in the Office of the Assistant Secretary Defense for International Security Affairs, Near East South Asia, Department of Defense. During this period he traveled extensively in the Persian Gulf and Middle East working on U.S. security policy. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation for the War Studies Department, King’s College, University of London.
Links to his publications are at: http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/people/russell.asp.
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