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:

  • CV [PDF]

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