Profiles

- Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Conflict

- Senior Lecture, Department of National Security Affairs, Center for Contemporary Conflict

- Former advisor to Secretary of Defense on Persian Gulf security strategy and policy

- Managing Editor, Strategic Insights

- Politics and security in the Gulf States

- U.S. security strategy in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East

- Nuclear strategy

- Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

- Transnational terrorist networks

- Transformation and defense strategy.

James A. Russell is managing editor of Strategic Insights, the bi-monthly e-journal published by the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. He also serves as senior lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at NPS, where he is teaching courses on Middle East security affairs, terrorism, and national security strategy.

From 1988-2001, Mr. Russell held a variety of positions in the Office of the Assistant Secretary Defense for International Security Affairs, Near East South Asia, Department of Defense. During this period he traveled extensively in the Persian Gulf and Middle East working on U.S. security policy. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation for the War Studies Department, King’s College, University of London.