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Richard Shultz

Professor of International Politics

Education

PhD in Political Science, Miami University
Post-doctoral studies, University of Michigan

Professional Activities

• Director, International Security Studies Program which includes the Jebsen Center for Counterterrorism Studies, The Fletcher School.
• Recipient of Harvard University’s Goldsmith Research Award from The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
• Beneficiary of three chairs: the Olin Distinguished Professorship of National Security Studies at the U.S. Military Academy, Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College, and Brigadier General H.L. Oppenheimer Chair of Warfighting Strategy, U.S. Marine Corps.
• Recipient of research fellowships at Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and St. Andrew’s University, Scotland.
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs; Advisory Board of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Forces Institute; Special Operations Policy Advisory Group of the U.S. Department of Defense; Board of the National Strategy Information Center; International Studies Association; International Institute for Strategic Studies; and Board Member of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc.
• Recipient of the Army’s Outstanding Civilian Service Medal.
• Member of the Board of Editors for the following Frank Cass Publications, Routledge, UK: Small Wars and Insurgencies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Terrorism and Political Violence. He is also an International Advisory Board Member of Brassey’s series on Intelligence and National Security. Furthermore, he is on the Selection Committee of the Vietnam Fullbright Program and served on the Advisory Board to the President of the U.S. Naval War College 1995-1999.

Curriculum Vitae

Richard Shultz

Programs & Centers

• International Security Studies Program

Courses

Fall 2009

• DHP P240 - The Role of Force in International Politics
• DHP P243 - Seminar on Internal Confilcicts of War

GMAP

• GMA P245 - Security Studies & Crisis Management

Research Interests

U.S. national security policy; regional conflict and state disintegration; ethnic and religious violence; internal conflicts and wars; contemporary military strategy; intelligence policy and international terrorism; special operations forces and covert paramilitary operations; low-intensity conflict and power projection; media-military relations; changing roles and missions of the U.S. armed forces.

Faculty Research Profile - "Is the increased importance of non-state armed groups such that it should be viewed as a 'global insurgency?'"

Spotlight

Professor Shultz is chosen in The Boston Globe as one of eleven "Bostonians Changing the World"

Selected Publications

Selected Op-eds

• Counterinsurgency, by the Book, The New York Times, August 07, 2006. By Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea J. Dew

Authored Books and Monographs

• Global Insurgency Strategy and the Salafi Jihad Movement (forthcoming Fall 2007);
• Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2006) Co-authored with Andrea Dew.
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• Armed Groups: A Tier-One Security Priority. Boulder, CO: Institute for National Security Studies U.S. Air Force Academy, 2004. Co-authored with Itamara V. Lochard and Doug Farah.
• The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy and Johnson's Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam. New York: Harper Collins, 1999 (paperback 2000).
• Ethnic and Religious Conflict: Emerging Threat to US Security. Washington, DC: National Strategy Information Center, 1994.
• In the Aftermath of War: US Support for Reconstruction and Nation-Building in Panama Following Just Cause. Montgomery, AL: Air University Press, 1993.
• The Soviet Union and Revolutionary Warfare. Stanford, CA: The Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1989.
• Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy. New York: Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1984. Co-authored with Roy Godson.

Edited and Authored Books

• The Role of Naval in 21st Century Operations. Washington, DC: Brassey’s International Defense Publishers, 2000. Co-editor and author with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
• War in the Information Age. Washington, DC: Brassey’s International Defense Publishers, 1997. Co-editor and author with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
• Security Studies for the Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: Brassey’s US, 1997. Co-editor and author with Roy Godson and George Quester.
• Roles and Missions of SOF in the Aftermath of the Cold War. Co-editor and author 1995.
• Ethnic Conflict and Regional Instability: Implications for US Policy and Army Roles and Missions. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1994. Co-editor and author with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
• Security Studies for the 1990s. New York: Brassey’s, 1993. Co-editor and author with Roy Godson and Ted Greenwood.
• Marine Expeditionary Forces: Into the Twenty-First Century. Originally published in two issues of the journal Perspectives on Warfighting, the manuscript was pub1ished as a single volume by the Marine Corps in 1993. Co-editor and author with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
• Naval Forward Presence Missions and the National Military Strategy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993. Co-editor and author with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
• The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War. Montgomery, AL: Air University Press, 1992. Co-editor and author with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
• U.S. Defense Policy in an Era of Constrained Resources. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989. Co-editor and author with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
• Guerrilla Watfare and Counterinsurgency: U.S.-Soviet Policy in the Third World. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1988. Co-editor and author with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Uri Ra’anan, and William Olson.
• US-Soviet Doctrines and Technologies: Global and Regional Implications. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987. Co-editor and author with Uri Ra’anan and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
• Hydra of Carnage: The International Linkages of Terrorism. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1985. Co-editor and author with Un Ra’anan, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Ernst Halperin, and Igor Lukes.
• Special Operations in US Strategy. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1985. Co-editor with Frank R. Barnett and B. Hugh Tovar.
• Power, Principles and Interests: A Reader in World Politics. Lexington, MA: Ginn Press, 1985. Co-editor and author with James P. O’Leary and Jeffrey Salmon.
• Lessons from an Unconventional War: Reassessing U.S. Strategies in Preparing for Future Conflicts. New York: Pergamon, 1982. Co-editor and author with Richard Hunt.
• Responding to the Terrorist Threat: Security and Crisis Management. New York: Pergamon, 1980. Co-editor and author with Stephen Sloan.

Authored Chapters in Books Edited by Other Authors

• "The Real Intelligence Failure on 9-11 and the Case for a Doctrine of Striking First,” in Terrorism and Counterterrorism, ed. by Russell D. Howard and Reid L. Sawyer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Co-authored with Andreas Vogt.
• “Can American Democracy Employ Covert Action as an Instrument of Statecraft,” in Legal and Moral Constraints on Low Intensity Conflict, ed. by Alberto Coll, James Ord, and Stephen Rose. Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1995.
• “Conceptualizing Political Terrorism,” in International Terrorism: Characteristics, Causes and Controls, ed. by Charles W. Kegley. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990. This is a reprint of an article published in Vol. 38 of the Journal of International Affairs of 1978.
• “Covert Action,” in Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s, ed. by Roy Godson. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989.
• “Low Intensity Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of the Policy and Strategy of the United States, France, Great Britain, and Israel,” in International Security and Arms Control, vol. II, ed. By Edward Kolodziej and Patrick Morgan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989.
• “Psychological Operations in Revolutionary Warfare: Threats, Opportunities and U.S. Policy,” in Psychological Operations and Political Warfare in US Strategy, ed. by Carnes Lord. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1989.
• “Soviet Intelligence Operations,” in The USSR Today and Tomorrow: Problems and Challenges, ed. by Uri Ra’anan and Charles M. Perry. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986.
• “Soviet Strategy and Organization: Active Measures and Insurgency,” in The Red Orchestra, ed. by Dennis L. Bark. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 1986.
• “Low Intensity Conflict and U.S. Policy: Regional Threats, Soviet Involvement, and the American Response,” in Low Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology, ed. by David Dean. Montgomery, AL: Air University Press, 1986.
• “Active Measures in Soviet Strategy,” in Soviet Foreign Policy in a Changing World, ed. by Erik Hoffmann and Robbin Laird. Chicago, IL: Aldine Publishing Co., 1986.
• “Countering Third World Marxist-Leninist Regimes: Policy Options for the United States,” in Vulnerabilities of Third World Marxist-Leninist Regimes: Implications for U.S. Policy. New York: Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1985.
• “The Role of the Soviet Union in Promoting Insurgency in the Third World,” in National Security Strategy: Choices and Limits, ed. by Stephen Cimbala. New York: Praeger, 1984.
• “Low Intensity Conflict: The Nature of the Soviet Role,” in Strategic Response to Conflict in the 1980s, ed. by William J. Taylor, Jr. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1984.
• “Soviet Strategy and Support for International Terrorist Groups,” in The 1980s: Decade of Confrontation? Washington, DC: The National Security Affairs Institute, 1982.
• “American Strategies During the Vietnam War,” in Non-Nuclear Conflict in the Nuclear Age, ed. by Sam Sarkesian. New York: Praeger, 1980.
• “Conceptualizing Political Terrorism: A Typology,” in International Terrorism. New York: Avery Publishing Group, School for International Affairs, Columbia University, 1980.

Authored Articles in Professional Journals and Newspapers

• "Intelligence Dominance A better way forward in Iraq", The Weekly Standard, (July 31, 2006). Richard H. Shultz Jr. & Roy Godson.
• "Armed Groups: A Tier-One Security Priority",  Institute for National Security Studies (http://www.usafa.af.mil/inss), Colorado: USAF Academy, September 2004. Richard H. Shultz, Douglas Farah and Itamara V. Lochard.
• "AlQaida's Growing Sanctuary," The Washington Post, (July 14, 2004). Co-authored with Douglas Farah.
• "Tactical Deception and Strategic Surprises in Al-Qai'da's Operations," MERIA Journal, 8:2 (Summer 2004). Co-authored with Ruth Margolies Beitler.
• "Showstoppers: Nine Reasons Why We Never Sent Our Special Operations Forces After al Qaeda Before 9/11," The Weekly Standard 9:19  (January 26, 2004).
• “It’s War! Fighting Post-11 September Global Terrorism Through a Doctrine of Preemption," Terrorism and Political Violence 15:1 (Spring 2003). Co-authored with Andreas Vogt.
• “State Disintegration and Ethnic Conflict: A Framework for Analysis and Case Study,” ANNALS (Fall 1995).
• “Iranian Covert Aggression: Support for Radical Political Islamists Conducting Internal Subversion Against States in the Middle East/Southwest Asia Region,” Terrorism and Political Violence (Spring 1995).
• “Emerging Regional Conflicts and U.S. Interests: Challenges and Responses in the 1990s”, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (January 1994). Co-authored with J. Marlow Schmauder.
• “The Post-Conflict Use of Military Forces: Lessons from Panama, 1989-1991,” The Journal of Strategic Studies (June 1993).
• “Compellence and the Role of Airpower as a Political Instrument,” Comparative Strategy (Fall 1992).
• “The Low-Intensity Conflict Environment of the 1990s,” ANNALS (September 1991).
• “Low Intensity Conflict: Future Challenges and Lessons from the Reagan Years,” Survival (July/August 1989).
• “Discriminate Deterrence and Low Intensity Conflict: The Unintentional Legacy of the Reagan Administration,” Conflict (June 1989).
• “Covert Action and Executive-Legislative Relations: The Iran-Contra Crisis and its Aftermath,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (June 1989).
• “Oral History: A Neglected Dimension of Sovietology,” Strategic Review (Spring 1987).
• “Can Democratic Governments Use Military Force in the War Against Terrorism? The U.S. Confrontation with Libya,” World Affairs (Fall 1986).
• “Soviet Use of Surrogates to Project Power into the Third World,” Parameters - Journal of the US Army War College (Fall 1986).
• “Soviet Active Measures: Distinctions and Definitions,” Defense Analysis, No. 2 (1985).
• “The Role of External Forces in Third World Conflict,” Comparative Strategy (Fall 1983).
• “Low Intensity Conflict and American Strategy in the 1980s,” Conflict Quarterly (Winter 1982).
• Co-authored with Roy Godson a special issue of International Studies Notes (Winter 1983) devoted to teaching foreign intelligence. The three articles prepared for the issue include: “Teaching Foreign Intelligence;” “Intelligence - The Evolution of a New Teaching Subject;” and “Resource Materials on Intelligence.”
• “Reassessing U.S. Strategy in Vietnam: The Impact of Past Lessons on Future Planning for Low Intensity Conflicts,” International Security Review (Winter 1980-1981).
• “Coercive Force and Military Strategy: Deterrence Logic and Counterinsurgency,” Western Political Quarterly (December 1979).
• “Explaining American Intervention: A Review Essay,” Journal of Politics (November 1979).
• “Responding to International Terrorism: Prevention and Control,” International Studies Notes (Spring 1979).
• “The Limits of Terrorism in Insurgency Warfare: The Case of the Viet Cong,” Polity (Fall 1978).
• “Breaking the Will of the Enemy During the Vietnam War: The Operationalization of the Cost-Benefit Model of Counterinsurgency,” Journal of Peace Research, No. 2 (1978).
• “Conceptualizing Political Terrorism.” Journal of International Affairs (Summer 1978).