Status
Associate Professor
Contact
pstockton@nps.edu
Research Interests
Homeland security; U.S. foreign policy-making |
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Biography
Paul N. Stockton is Associate Provost at the Naval Postgraduate School, and is Director of its Center for Homeland Security. His teaching and research focuses on how U.S. security institutions respond to dramatic changes in the threat (including the rise of terrorism), and the interaction of Congress and the Executive branch in restructuring national security budgets, policies and institutional arrangements.
Mr. Stockton received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 1986. While attending Harvard he served as a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Mr. Stockton served from 1986-1989 as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Mr. Stockton was Senator Moynihan's personal representative on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and was principal advisor to the Senator on defense, intelligence, counternarcotics policy and foreign affairs. Mr. Stockton was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship for 1989-1990 by the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University.
In August 1990, Mr. Stockton joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School. From 1995 until 2000, he served as Director of NPS' Center for Civil-Military Relations. From 2000-2001, Mr. Stockton founded and served as the Acting Dean of NPS' School of International Graduate Studies. He was appointed Associate Provost in 2001. His teaching and research have focused on civil-military relations, Congress and the U.S. defense budgeting process. His research has appeared in a variety of journals, including Political Science Quarterly, International Security and Strategic Survey. He is co-editor of Reconstituting America's Defense: America's New National Security Strategy (Praeger, 1992). Mr. Stockton has also published an Adelphi Paper and has contributed chapters to a number of books, including James Lindsay and Randall Ripley, eds., U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).
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