Dr. Zachary Shore

Biography
Zachary Shore is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and a Research Scholar at the Institute of International Studies and the Institute of European Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

He previously served on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State through an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also worked as a National Security Fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University and at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC.

Shore earned his doctorate in modern European history from St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has lived for more than six years in Europe, traveling for extended periods across the continent, including Germany, Russia, and the Balkans. His academic honors include winning Harvard's Derek Bok Teaching Award, Oxford's St. Antony's Book Prize, a Dupont Fellowship, an Idea Prize from Germany's Kõrber Foundation, and research grants from the Fulbright Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Daimler-Chrysler Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation, and the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain.

He has been a guest on National Public Radio’s Diane Rehm Show and his ideas have been featured in Germany's Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Shore is the author of two books and numerous other articles that have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Newsday, Orbis, and The National Interest.

BOOKS

• Blunder: How ‘Cognition Traps’ Sabotage Success (New York: Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming, currently under contract.)
• Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
• What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, currently in third printing; recently available in paperback.)

Articles & Policy Papers

• “Europe’s Muslim Dilemma and Muslim Europe’s Choice,” forthcoming in William Anthony Hay and Harvey Sicherman, eds., Is There a West? (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006), 79-112.
• “Can the West Win Muslim Hearts and Minds?” Orbis, Summer 2005, 475-90. This article is an expanded version of “Breeding New Bin Ladens: America’s New Western Front,” in Watch on the West, published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Center for the Study of America and the West, Volume 5, Number 11 (December 2004).
• “Muslim Europe and the Transatlantic Divide,” Working Paper, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Washington, DC (2004). Explaining how Europe and the United States could simultaneously narrow the transatlantic divide and combat Islamic extremism by devising long-term integration strategies for Europe’s Muslim millions.
• “Uncommon Threats: Germany’s Muslims, Transatlantic Relations, and the War on Terror,” Policy Report, No. 5, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC (2003). Forward by Dr. Cathleen Fisher.
• “Three Faces of Realism,” Orbis , Vol. 47, No. 2 (Spring 2003), 349-359. Reviewing John Mearsheimer, TheTragedy of Great Power Politics; Jonathan Haslam, No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli; and Stanley Michalak, Primer in Power Politics.
• “US/Balkans: Relations Under Bush,” Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, February 12, 2001.
• “United States: Serbian Options,” Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, October 31, 2000.
• “The Challenge to Certainty,” The National Interest, No. 60 (Summer 2000). Arguing that the twentieth century will ultimately be remembered for the range and depth of the philosophical attacks upon previously unshakable beliefs in the sciences and social relations.
• “Hitler’s Opening Gambit: Intelligence, Encirclement, and the Decision to Align with Poland,” Intelligence & National Security 14, No. 3 (Autumn 1999), 111-130.
• “Hitler, Intelligence, and the Decision to Remilitarize the Rhine,” Lead article, Journal of Contemporary History 34, No. 1 (January 1999), 5-18.

Editorials

• “Europe’s Terrorists: Where Next?” International Herald Tribune, Wednesday, July 15, 2005.
• “European Disunion,” The Baltimore Sun, Wednesday, December 8, 2004.
• “Fanatically Secular, France Places Scarves Under Siege,” AICGS Advisor, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Newsletter, January 9, 2004.
• “North Korea’s Dictator Might Not Be Getting the Message,” Los Angeles Times, Thursday, May 1, 2003.
• “To the Victor Go the Toils: The Challenges Awaiting Germany’s Next Chancellor,” AICGS Advisor, September 2002.
• “Iran’s Reformers Need Our Help,” Newsday, Wednesday, June 7, 2000.
• “US Should Acknowledge Serbs’ Case,” Newsday, Thursday, April 15, 1999.
• “Refugees in Kosovo Must Be Shielded,” Newsday, Thursday, October 1, 1998.