Christopher Darnton
Christopher Darnton is an Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and an affiliate of Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation ().
His work examines the domestic and bureaucratic politics of foreign policy in the Americas, particularly related to enduring rivalries and regional wars; conflict resolution and public diplomacy; developing-country diplomacy in the Cold War and in contemporary great power competition; and the refinement of archival and case-study research methods in security studies.
He is the author of (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) and is currently writing a book on the hundred-year history of US security cooperation in the Americas.
He received a Ph.D. (2009) and MA (2004) in Politics from Princeton University, and a BA in International Relations (2002) from the University of Southern California. Prior to arriving at NPS, he taught at Reed College and the Catholic University of America.
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