Status
Interim Dean, School of International Graduate Studies,
Professor
Contact
jwirtz@nps.edu
Research Interests
Nuclear strategy and counterproliferation; Intelligence; International relations theory |
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Biography
James J. Wirtz is a Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He assumed duties as Interim Dean of the School of International Graduate Studies (SIGS) in February 2008. He is a Visiting Professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University; editor of the Palgrave Macmillan series, Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies; section chair of the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association and President of the International Security And Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association. He joined the Naval Postgraduate School in 1990 after teaching at Franklin & Marshall College, Penn State University and the State University of New York, Binghamton.
Professor Wirtz is the author of The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War (Cornell University Press, 1991, 1994); co-editor with T.V. Paul and Richard Harknett of The Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order (Michigan University Press, 1998, 2000); co-editor with Peter Lavoy and Scott Sagan of Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers will use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons (Cornell University Press, 2000); co-editor with Jeffrey Larsen of Rockets' Red Glare: National Missile Defense and the Future of World Politics (Westview, 2001); co-editor with Roy Godson of Strategic Denial and Deception; co-editor with Eliot Cohen, Colin Gray and John Baylis of Strategy in the Contemporary World; co-editor with Loch Johnson of Intelligence: Windows Into a Hidden World (Roxberry, 2004); co-editor with T.V. Paul and Michelle Fortmann of Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (Stanford: 2004), and co-editor with Eric Croddy of the Encyclopedia of Weapons of Mass Destruction (ABC-Clio, Forthcoming), and co-editor with Jeffrey A. Larsen of Nuclear Transformation: The New U.S. Nuclear Doctrine (Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming).
His work on intelligence, deterrence, the Vietnam war and military innovation and strategy has been published in Air Power Journal, Contemporary Security Policy, Defense Analysis, Harvard International Review, Intelligence and National Security, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, International Security, International Studies Notes, Joint Forces Quarterly, National Security Studies Quarterly, Orbis, Political Science Quarterly, Security Studies, Strategic Review, Strategic Survey, Studies in Intelligence, The Nonproliferation Review, Terrorism and Political Violence, and The Journal of Strategic Studies. He teaches courses on nuclear strategy, international relations theory, and intelligence. Professor Wirtz is currently working on a monograph, titled Theory of Surprise.
A native of New Jersey, Professor Wirtz earned his degrees in Political Science from Columbia University (MPhil 1987, PhD 1989), and the University of Delaware (MA 1983, BA 1980). He was a John M. Olin Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
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