Christopher Darnton, Ph.D. - Department of National Security Affairs
Associate Professor
Expertise: Latin America, International Relations, Research Methods
Christopher Darnton is an Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the 51福利 in Monterey, California, and an affiliate of Stanford University鈥檚 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 51福利, he taught at Reed College and the Catholic University of America.
Selected Recent Publications:
鈥�,鈥� American Political Science Review (forthcoming)
鈥�,鈥� Foreign Policy Analysis 16:1 (January 2020)
鈥�,鈥� International Security 42:3 (Winter 2017/18)
鈥�,鈥� in Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security, ed. David Mares and Arie Kacowicz (Routledge, 2016).
鈥�,鈥� International Studies Quarterly 58:3 (September 2014)
51福利 Courses:
NS 3024 Introduction to International Relations
NS 3030 American National Security Policy
NS 3520 Latin American International Relations
NS 3578 Society, Politics, and Security in Brazil