Tom Lansford, Ph.D
730 East Beach Blvd.
Long Beach, Mississippi 39560
228 867 2633
E-mail tom.lansford@usm.edu

Teaching Areas:

• International Relations
• International Security
• American Foreign and Security Policy
• U.S. Government and Politics

Research Areas, Public Speaking and Media Commentary Topics:

• Transatlantic Relations; Anglo-American and Franco-American Relations
• NATO and the EU
• American Foreign and Security Policy
• Arms trade and disarmament; transatlantic industrial-defense cooperation
• European Politics
• Environmental Politics and Coastal Development
• The American Presidency:  Theodore Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

II). EMPLOYMENT AND SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI, GULF COAST

• Interim Chair, Department of Political Science, 2005-2006
• Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Letters, 2004-present
• Associate Professor of Political Science, 2004-present
• Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2001-2004

College Service and Teaching:

• Chair and Member, Hiring Committees, Political Science Searches (5) 
• Elected Member Faulty Coast Liaison Committee, 2003-2005
• Chair and Member, Thesis Committees Political Science MA (7)
• Chair, Senior Thesis Committees Political Science BA (4)
• Gulf Coast Graduate Programs and Schedule Coordinator Political Science 2003-2005
• Member, Thesis Committee History MA (2)
• Member, Senior Thesis Committees History BA (2)
• Faculty Advisor Student Government Association, Gulf Coast 2002-present

BOOK SERIES EDITOR, ASHGATE PRESS (2002-present)

• U.S. Foreign Policy and Conflict in the Islamic World, Tom Lansford and Jack Kalapakian, editors (http://www.ashgate.com/subject_area/politics/politics_page.htm).
• Ethics and Global Politics, Tom Lansford and Patrick Hayden, editors  (http://www.ashgate.com/subject_area/politics/ethnics_global_series.htm).  
• Homeland Security, Tom Payne and Tom Lansford, editors (http://www.ashgate.com/subject_area/politics/homeland_security.htm).  

FRANK MARIA CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND ETHICS (CIPE)
Fellow, Frank Maria Center for International Politics and Ethics (2000-2005)

NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE                                                            
Assistant Professor of Political Science (2000-2001)

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, TUSCARAWAS CAMPUS
Assistant Professor of Political Science (1999-2000)CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO, HAROLD

WASHINGTON CAMPUS, MAINZ, GERMANY
Adjunct Instructor of History and Political Science (1998-2001)

CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY
Adjunct Instructor of Political Science (1998-1999)

THOMAS NELSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE (1998-1999)
Adjunct Instructor of History and Political Science

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY
Adjunct Instructor of Political Science (1997-1999)
Graduate Assistant, Graduate Programs in International Studies (1994-1997)
Teaching Assistant, History Department (1992-1993)

ARMED FORCES STAFF COLLEGE
Internship and Civilian Exercise Coordinator (1996-1998)
Consultant for College Combined and Joint Task Force Exercise (1994-1999)

BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE (COMMONWEALTH COLLEGE)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History and Political Science (1993-1999)

SERVICE TO DISCIPLINE:

• Harry S. Truman Little White House Scholarship Advisory Board Board Member (2004-present)

• Consultant for joint Federal Research Division, Library of Congress/Foreign Military Studies Office of the Army War College, “Europe Civil-Military Relations Survey,” Denmark, Norway and Sweden (2004-present) 
• Political Handbook of the World. Washington, DC: CQ Press; Associate Editor, 2004 and 2006, editions.
• SEVERN PUBLISHING:  Editorial Consultant (2004-present)
• UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA:  Referee (2003-present)
• NATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (NSSA): Member, Governing Board (2001-present)
• HORIZONS: THE JOURNAL OF GLOBAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT: Editor (2006-present)
• POLITICS AND ETHICS REVIEW (Formerly THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND ETHICS): Book Review Editor (2000-present)
• WHITE HOUSE STUDIES: Associate Editor (2003-present); Editorial Board Member (2000-present)
• EUROPEAN SECURITY: Referee (2000-present)
• THE SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL: Referee (2000-present)
• ASHGATE PRESS:  Referee (2000-present)

III). PUBLICATIONS

Books

NATO: An Encyclopedia.  George Kurian and Tom Lansford.  Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, forthcoming, 2007.

Historical Dictionary of Post-Cold War Diplomacy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, forthcoming 2007.

Strategic Interests in the Middle East: Opposition or Support for US Foreign Policy. Edited by Tom Lansford and Jack Covarrubias. Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming, 2007.

Communism. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, forthcoming, 2007.

Democracy. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, forthcoming, 2007.

To Protect and Defend: US Homeland Security Policy. Tom Lansford, Robert J. Pauly, and Jack Covarrubias. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

The Second Term of George W. Bush: Prospects and Perils. Edited by Robert Maranto, Douglas Brattebo and Tom Lansford. New York: Palgrave, 2006.

Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism and Cultural Transformation. Edited by Allan Eickelmann, Eric Nelson and Tom Lansford. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Transatlantic Security Dilemmas: Old Europe, New Europe and the US.  Edited by Tom Lansford and Blago Tashev.   Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

George W. Bush.  Presidents and Their Decisions Series.  Edited by Tom Lansford and Robert P. Watson.  San Diego:  Greenhaven Press, 2004. 

Strategic Preemption: US Foreign Policy and the Second Iraq War.  Robert J. Pauly and Tom Lansford.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Theodore Roosevelt:  A Political Life.  New York: NOVA, 2004.

George W. Bush: Evaluating the President at Midterm.  Edited by Bryan Hilliard, Tom Lansford and Robert P. Watson.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2004.

John F. Kennedy.  Presidents and Their Decisions Series.  Edited by Tom Lansford and Robert P. Watson.  San Diego:  Greenhaven Press, 2003. 

A Bitter Harvest:  U.S. Foreign Policy and Afghanistan.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
Debating the War on Terrorism.  Edited by Tom Lansford and Robert P. Watson.  Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt 2003.

America’s War on Terror.  Edited by Patrick Hayden, Tom Lansford, and Robert P. Watson.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

Theodore Roosevelt.  Presidents and Their Decisions Series.  Edited by Tom Lansford and Robert P. Watson. San Diego:  Greenhaven Press, 2002. 

Politics and Ethics.  Edited by Patrick Hayden and Tom Lansford.  New York: NOVA, 2002.

All For One: NATO, Terrorism and the United States.  Aldershot: Ashgate 2002.

Debating Environmental Regimes.  Edited by Tom Lansford, Bryan Hilliard, J. L. Walsh and Patrick Hayden.  New York:  NOVA, 2002.

The Lords of Foggy Bottom: The American Secretaries of State and the World They Shaped.  New York: International Encyclopedia Society, 2001.

A “Bully” First Lady: Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Presidential Wives Series, Robert P. Watson, Series Editor, Huntington, NY: NOVA, 2001.

Evolution and Devolution: The Dynamics of Sovereignty and Security in Post-Cold War Europe.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: International Organizations and the 21st Century. Edited by Wayne Lesperance and Tom Lansford.  New York: Pearson, 2000.

Untying the Gordian Knot: Understanding Great Power Interest in the Persian Gulf. Coauthored with Wayne Lesperance. New York: Pearson, 1999. 

 Peer-Reviewed Articles

Homeland Security From Clinton to Bush: An Assessment.  White House Studies.   Vol. 3, no. 4 (2003).

The Next Step in Arms Control: The Effort to Develop an International Small Arms Non-Proliferation Regime. International Studies.  Vol 39, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 365-85.

Whither Lafayette?: French Military Policy and the American Campaign in Afghanistan. European Security.  Vol. 11, no. 3 (Autumn 2002): 126-45.

The Great Game Renewed:  US-Russian Rivalry in the Arms Trade of South Asia. Security Dialogue. Vol. 33, no. 2 (June 2002): 129-40.

Regime Formation and Maturation in the White House: The Rise of Internationalism During the Administration of Theodore Roosevelt. White House Studies. Vol. 1, no. 4 (2001): 505-24.

Lessons Learned: The Impact of the Yugoslav Wars on the Development of a Common European Security and Defense Identity. National Social Science Journal. Vol 18, no. 1 (2001), online journal available at http://nssa.apsu.edu/NSSAJ/nssaj182.htm.

Never Again?: Kosovo and the Future of European Security.  The McNeese Review.  Vol.  39 (2001): 38-59.

Security and Marketshare: Bridging the Transatlantic Divide in the Defense Industry. European Security.  Vol. 10, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 1-20.

Ethnopolitical Mobilization and the Cold War:   The Role of External Actors on Namibian Independence.  International Journal of Political Studies.  Vol. 3, no. 1 (Spring 2001).

P2K: Europe and the Challenge of Proliferation in the New Millennium (co-authored with Wayne Lesperance).  Virginia Social Science Journal (Winter 2000): 1-16.

Post-Westphalian Europe?: Sovereignty and the Modern Nationstate.  International Studies .  Vol 37, no. 1 (Winter 2000): 31-55.

The Triumph of Transatlanticism: NATO and the Evolution of European Security After the Cold War.  The Journal of Strategic Studies Vol 22, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 1-27.

Dual Engagement: France and the Persian Gulf, (co-authored with Wayne Lesperance).  European Security Vol. 7, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 137-66.

U.S. Prospects in the Next Century: Primacy or Decline? The McNeese Review. Vol.18 (Fall 1998): 85-108.

The Third World in the 1990s: Global Interaction in Southwest Asia in an Increasingly Interconnected World,  (co-authored with Steve Yetiv).  The Journal of Conflict Studies Vol. 18, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 70-97.

Euro-American Rivalry and Security in the Persian Gulf, (co-authored with Steve Yetiv) Defence Analysis. Vol. 13, no. 1 (Spring 1997):  103-117.

The Question of France:  French Security Choices at Century’s End.  European Security.  Vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 44-64.

Book Chapters

Coalition Diplomacy and Iraq, in John Davis, ed. Presidential Policies and the Road to the Second Iraq War: From Forty-One to Forty-Three. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 

The Enduring Legacy: Harry S. Truman and the Formation of NATO, in Robert P. Watson, Michael Devine and Robert Wolz, eds. Harry S. Truman: National Security Legacy, 1953-2003.  Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2005.

Introduction: US Security Policy and the New Europe, in Tom Lansford and Blago Tashev, eds.,  Transatlantic Security Dilemmas: Old Europe, New Europe and the US.  Blago Tashev.   Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

A United Front?:  The Bush Administration, Coalition Diplomacy and the Military Campaign in Afghanistan in Bryan Hilliard, Tom Lansford, and Robert P. Watson, eds.,  George W. Bush: Evaluating the President at Midterm.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2004.

Homeland Security From Clinton to Bush:  An Assessment in John Davis, ed., The Global War on Terrorism:  Assessing the American Response. New York:  Nova Science, 2004 (reprinted from White House Studies, vol 3, no. 4, 2003).

TR's White House: The Biggest First Family; and Edith Roosevelt and the 1902 White House Renovation in Robert P. Watson, ed. Life in the White House:  A Social History of the First Family and the President’s House.  Albany:  SUNY, 2004.

Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam and the United States, coauthored with Jack Covarrubias, in America’s War on Terror.  Edited by Patrick Hayden, Tom Lansford, and Robert P. Watson.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

A Female Leader for the Free World: The First Woman President and Foreign Policy Policy, in Robert P. Watson and Ann Gordon, eds., Electing Madam President: The First Female President.  Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002.

Regime Formation and Maturation in the White House: The Rise of Internationalism During the Administration of Theodore Roosevelt, in Robert P. Watson, ed., Contemporary Presidential Studies: A Reader.  New York:  NOVA, 2002; reprinted from White House Studies. Vol. 1, no. 4 (2001): 505-24.

Family Life in the White House, in Robert Watson, ed., The American First Ladies. Pasadena: Salem Press: 2001.

NATO: The Maturation of the Transatlantic Security Partnership in Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: International Organizations and the 21st Century. Edited by Wayne Lesperance and Tom Lansford.  New York: Pearson, 2000.

Virginia’s Foreign and Economic Policy (co-authored with Wayne Lesperance) in Quentin Kidd, ed., Government and Politics in Virginia: The Old Dominion at the 21st Century.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Articles and Essays in Non-Refereed Publications

Cultural Imperialism, Empire: United States, Free Trade Imperialism, Hegemon and Hegemony, United States in Thomas Benjamin, ed., Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450 (New York: Gale Group/Macmillan, 2006).

Rating Presidential Cabinets and Cabinet Secretaries. Presidential Research Group Report (Fall 2005), online at www.uccs.edu/~hgardne2/articles.html.

Civil Service Commission, Civil War Amendments, Eurocentrism, European Court of Human Rights, European Human Rights Convention, European Union, Fourteenth Amendment, Great Britain and Affirmative Action, Harry S. Truman, Ku Klux Klan in James Beckman, ed., Affirmative Action: An Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004).

National Security Policy and the Strong Executive: The French and American Presidents and the War on Terror.  Tom Lansford and Robert Pauly. American Diplomacy.  “Special Conference Report” (April 2003), online at http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2003_04- 06/lansfordpauly_exec/lansfordpauly_exec.html.

Foreign Policy in the Bush Administration: An Early Report Card.  Tom Lansford, Robert P. Watson and Bryan Hilliard.  American Diplomacy.  “Special Conference Report” (April 2003), online at http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2003_04-06/conf_intro/conf_intro.html.

Argentina, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay.  The Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies (San Diego:  Gale Research, 2004).

South Asia and the International Arms Trade.  Peace News (September 2003): 28-29.

Televangelism, Billy Graham, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, Pat Buchanan, Ku Klux Klan, John Birch Society, Heritage Foundation  in Paul A. Djupe and Laura R. Olsen, eds.  The Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics (New York: Facts on File, 2003).

African Americans and Gun Violence, American Revolution, Barron v. Baltimore (1833), British American Security Information Council (BASIC), John Moses Browning, Crime and Gun Use, Dueling, Fourteenth Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party and Gun Control, Vigilantism, in Gregg L. Carter, ed., The Encyclopedia of Guns in American Society (Santa Barbara:  ABC-CLIO, 2002).

Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Henry Hyde, Congressional Party Leadership, Foreign Policy, Social Security, in George Kurian, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Politics:  The Republican Party: A Supplement, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001).

Bill Bradley, Congressional Party Leadership, Foreign Policy, Social Security, in George Kurian, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Politics:  The Democratic Party: A Supplement (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001).

Anthropology, Henry de Bracton, Isidore Comte, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Otto von Gierke, Claude-Adrien Helevtius, Leonard Hobhouse, Joseph de Maistre, Mass Society, Robert Michels, Francois Quesnay, Richard Tawney, The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Garrett Ward Shelton, ed. (New York: Facts on File, 2001).

Abortion, Civil Service, Congress, Contemporary Civil Rights Movement, Hacienda, Federal Government, Marxism, Materialism, Natural Rights, South Asian Immigrants, Political Parties, Popular Culture, Public Education, Religion and Religious Movements, Social Mobility, Tribal Gaming, The Encyclopedia of American Studies, 4 vols. George Kurian, ed. (Grolier 2001).

Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Estonia, France, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Namibia, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, the United Kingdom  Encyclopedia of the World’s Nations, 3 vols. (New York: Facts on File, 2001).

Oliver North, George Schultz, in Gerald S. Greenberg, ed., Historical Encyclopedia of U.S. Independent Counsel Investigations (Westport: Greenwood, 2000).

Allied Operations Against Borneo, The Bataan Death March, Europe First Decision, Admiral Bruce Frasier, Goodenough Island, Operation Magic, and, The RAF in the Pacific, in Stanley Sandler, ed.  Garland’s Encyclopedia of the Wars of the United States: World War II in the Pacific (New York: Garland, 1999).

Looking South: France and Mediterranean Security, in Simon Serfaty, ed., GPIS Working Papers. No. 7 (Spring 1997).

Dwight D. Eisenhower, William McKinley, Ronald W. Reagan, and McCarthyism, in George Kurian, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Politics:  The Republican Party, vol. 1, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).

Woodrow Wilson, in George Kurian, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Politics:  The Democratic Party, vol. 2  (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).

The National Security Council, and The Drug Enforcement Administration, in George Kurian, ed., The Historical Guide to the American Government (New York: Oxford, 1997).

Boers, The General Abolition Bill, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, The Palmerston Act, and, Suppression of the West African Slave Trade, in Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., The Historical  Encyclopedia of World Slavery, vols. I, II (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1997).

Sir Ian Hamilton, Cruiser Raids-1916, Channel Destroyer Raids, Sea Mines, and The Development of Depth Charges, in Spencer C. Tucker, ed., The European Powers and the Great War (New York:  Garland, 1996).

Book Reviews

Reviewed Theodore Roosevelt:  A Strenuous Life for The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 128 (April 2004):  218-219.

Reviewed NATO Enlargement During the Cold War: Strategy and System in the Western Alliance for Contemporary Security Policy, vol 23, no.1 (Winter 2002): 168-170.

Reviewed America’s First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House for White House Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 291-94.

Reviewed Beyond Boundaries?  Disciplines, Paradigms, and Theoretical Integration in International Studies for The Social Science Journal, vol 38 (Spring 2001): 344-46   

Conference Papers, Participation and Public Presentations:

“Homeland Security in an International Context,” paper presented at the National Social Science Association Conference on April 15, 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Truman and Middle East Security,” Truman Legacy Symposium: Truman and the Middle East, Key West, Florida, May 13-14, 2005 (invited speaker).

“United Front? US Security Strategy and Coalition Warfare,” paper presented at the National Social Science Association Conference on April 16, 2005, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“The Best Defense? Iraq and Beyond,” coauthored with Jack Covarrubias, paper presented at
“The Second Term of George W. Bush: Prospects and Perils Conference,” Villanova University, January 22, 2005.

“Truman and the Integration of the Military,” Truman Legacy Symposium: The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman, Key West, Florida, May 14-15, 2004 (invited speaker).

“Constrained Multilateralism:  The Bush Foreign Policy,” paper presented at the National Social Science Association Conference on April 15, 2004, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Panel Chair:  “International Views and Foreign Policy”; “International Conflict and Cooperation”; and American Politics” panels, National Social Science Association Conference on April 15, 2004, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“NATO and the Future of International Security,” Presidential Symposia on National Security and the American Presidency, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, February 13-14, 2004 (invited speaker).

“The Enduring Legacy: Harry S. Truman and the Formation of NATO,” Truman Legacy Symposium: The National Security Legacy of Harry S. Truman, 1953-2003, Key West, Florida, June 13-14, 2003 (invited speaker).

“National Security Policy and the Strong Executive: The French and American Presidents and the War on Terror” (coauthored with Robert Pauly), paper presented at the National Social Science Association Conference on April 18, 2003, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Panel Chair, “International Security,” National Social Science Association Conference on April 18, 2003, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“The Long Arm of the International Criminal Tribunal: NATO the Efforts to Support the European War Crimes Regime,” paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference on March 1, 2003 in Portland, Oregon.

“Whither Layfayette?: French Military Policy and the Campaign in Afghanistan,” paper presented at the National Social Science Association Conference on April 19, 2002, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Panel Chair, “International Security,” National Social Science Association Conference on April 19, 2003, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“The Great Game Renewed?: U.S.–Russian Rivalry in the Arms Trade of South Asia,” paper presented at the Southwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting on March 28, 2002 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Panel Chair, “Contemporary International Politics,” Southwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting on March 28, 2002 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“Not as Special Anymore?: The Changing Anglo-America Security Relationship,” paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference on March 26, 2002 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“Anglo-American Interaction in the Global Arms Trade,” paper presented at the Northeast Political Science Association Annual Conference on May 4, 2001 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

“Lessons Learned?: The Impact of the Yugoslav Wars on the Development of a Common European Security and Defense Policy,” paper presented at the National Social Science Association Conference on April 19, 2001, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Panel Chair, International Relations,” National Social Science Association Conference on April 19, 2001, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Catching the Next Wave: Ecological Awareness and the Impact of the Surfrider Foundation,” paper (co-authored with Wayne Lesperance)  presented at the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Conference on November 4, 2000 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

“Two Steps Forward. One Step Back: The CTBT and the Nonproliferation Regime,” paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association on November 10, 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Panel Discussant, “Current Issues of U.S. Foreign Policy and World Order,” Southern Political Science Association on November 10, 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia.

“Never Again?: Kosovo and the Future of European Security,” paper presented at conference AA Century of Killing: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the 20th Century,” on October 11, 2000, in Vermillion, South Dakota.

“Post-Westphalian Europe? Sovereignty and the Modern Nationstate,” paper presented at the National Social Science Association Conference on March 28, 2000, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“P2K: Europe and the Challenge of Proliferation in the New Millennium,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference on September 3, 1999, in Atlanta, Georgia, (coauthored with Wayne Lesperance).
               
“Security and Market Share: The Problems of European Defense-Industrial Integration,” paper presented at the National Social Science Association Conference on April 12, 1999, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“P2K: Europe and the Challenge of Proliferation in the New Millennium,” paper presented at the Virginia Social Science Association Conference on March 27, 1999, in Radford, Virginia (coauthored with Wayne Lesperance).

“A Renewed Interest:  The French Return to the Persian Gulf,” paper presented at the National Social Science Association Conference on November 6, 1998, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“Dual Engagement: France and the Persian Gulf,” paper presented with Wayne Lesperance at the 1998 International Studies Association--South Annual Conference on November 1, 1998, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
               
“Arms and Stability in Eastern Europe: The Ramifications of Western Arms exports to Eastern Europe,” paper presented at the 1997 International Studies Association--South Annual Conference on  October, 19, 1997 in Miami, Florida. 

“The Next American Century:  The Prospects for Continued American Primacy in the Twenty-First Century,” paper presented at the 1997 Virginia Commonwealth University Forum in International Studies on March 27, 1997 in Richmond, Virginia.

“The Triumph of Transatlanticism: NATO and the Evolution of European Security After the Cold War,@ paper presented at the Virginia Conference of Political Scientists on December 7, 1996 in Lynchburg, Virginia.

“Europe’s Defense Identity: Progress Towards the Establishment of the European Security Pillar,” paper presented at the 1996 International Security Studies Section Annual Conference on November 1, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.

“Looking South: France and Mediterranean Security,” paper presented at the International Studies--South Annual Conference on October 26, 1996 in Roanoke, Virginia.

“The Role of External Actors in Namibian Independence,” paper presented at the 1996 Virginia Commonwealth University Forum in International Studies on March 28, 1996 in Richmond, Virginia.

Panel Chair, “Extension of the NPT and Progress on the CTBT,” Nineteenth Annual Old Dominion University, Model United Nations Faculty Programs, February 16, 1996, Norfolk, Virginia.
               
“The Question of France:  France and the Future of EU Integration,”  paper presented at the 1995 International Studies Association--South Annual Conference on October 22, 1995 in Atlanta, Georgia.
               
“The European Security Debate:  French Security Choices in the 1990s,” paper presented at  the 1995 International Security Studies Section Annual Conference on October 14, 1995 in Washington, D.C.

IV). PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• International Studies Association
• National Social Science Association
• American Political Science Association
• Association of Global Policy and Development  

V). AWARDS AND HONORS

• Nominated for Instructor of the Year, New England College (2001)
• Nominated for Professor of the Year, Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus (2000)
• Virginia Social Science Association, First Place Graduate Paper Contest P2K: Europe and the Challenges of Proliferation in the New Millennium, (coauthored with Wayne Lesperance), (1999)
• Certificate of Appreciation in Teaching, Commonwealth College, Virginia Beach Campus (1997)
• Certificate of Appreciation in Teaching, Commonwealth College, Virginia Beach Campus (1996)
• Instructor of the Quarter, Commonwealth College, Norfolk Campus (1994)
• Old Dominion University, GPIS Fellowship (1994)
• Phi Kappi Phi (1991)
• Senior History Award, Virginia Wesleyan College (1991)
• Phi Alpha Theta (1990)

VI). GRANTS

• “Assessing the Bush Presidency at Midpoint,” Conference Grant from CIPE, $10,000.
• Robert Gilmore Faculty Development Grant for Conference Participation, New England College.
• Faculty Development Grant, $750 for Conference Participation.
• $50,000 to establish the Frank Maria Center for International Politics and Ethics (Grant jointly authored by Patrick Hayden, Tom Lansford, Wayne Lesperance and Jim Walsh).
• Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus $800 Faculty Development Grant.
• Old Dominion University, Graduate Research Assistantship, $9,000 annually (1994-1997).
• Old Dominion University, History Department Research Grant, $500 (1993).

                                                                                                                       
VII). PUBLIC SERVICE

• Moderator, Judicial Forum, Harrison County (9/21/2006).
• Member, Leadership Gulf Coast, Class of 2004-2005.
• Regular or frequent invited guest or interviewee: It’s A New Day, WJZD Radio; Sunday Night, WLOX TV; Newswatch This Week, WLOX; Statewide Live, Mississippi Public Television, WMAH TV; Newscasts:  WTUZ radio; WJER television and WJER radio.
• Quoted in Louis Jacobson, “Bipartisan Lessons,” National Journal (11/8/03), p. 3442; and Louis Jacobson, “Mr. Inside Goes Home,” National Journal (9/13/2003), p. 2784.
• Quoted in “Cheney Visits Biloxi to Support Barbour,” The Starkville Daily News (6/8/03)
• Quoted in Robin Fitzgerald, “Cheney Visit Puts Coast in Spotlight,” Sun Herald (6/8/03)
• Participant, Public Debate on Iraq, USM Gulf Coast (3/07/2003)
• Interview, “The Middle East,” The Don and Carla Show (8/7/2001); interview, “Politicians as Celebrities,” The Don and Carla Show (6/25/2001)

Dr. Robert Watson
Dept. Of Political Science
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
561 297-3055
Email: rpwatson@fau.edu

Dr. Patrick Hayden
Political Science and International Relations
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 600
Wellington. New Zealand
Email: patrick.hayden@vuw.ac.nz

Dr. Steve Yetiv
Dept. of Political Science, BAL 700
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
757 683 3841
Syetiv@odu.edu

Denise von Herrmann
Associate Dean, Arts & Letters
Univ. of Southern Mississippi–Gulf Coast
730 East Beach Blvd
Long Beach, MS 39560
601 266 4315
denise.vonherrmann@usm.edu