Dr. Scott A. Silverstone, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Department of Social Sciences Phone: (845) 938-3331 United States Military Academy E-mail: scott.silverstone@usma.edu West Point, NY 10996 CURRENT POSITION Professor of International Relations, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point, August 2010-present. Director, International Relations Program, Department of Social Sciences, West Point. Adjunct Professor, Bard College Globalization and International Affairs Program. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Ph.D. in Political Science, May 1999. EDUCATION The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Graduate studies in the Department of Political Science, 1991-1993. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. B.A. in Political Science, May 1985. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Professor, Bard College Globalization and International Affairs program, 2007-present. Power, War and Terror in International Affairs Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point, August 2004-July 2010. International Relations Theory Introduction to American Politics Political Analysis Advanced International Relations Theory American Foreign Policy Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point, July 2001-August 2004. Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2000-2001. Democracy and International Relations
The Causes of War Great Powers and International Order The Future of World Politics Making Foreign Policy Assistant Professor/Instructor of International Relations, Undergraduate International Relations Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1996-2000. Democracy and International Relations The Presidential Campaign and American Foreign Policy International Relations Senior Honors Thesis Seminar International Organization and the United States Writing About International Relations International Relations in Theory and Practice Instructor of Writing, Mellon Research and Writing Groups, University of Pennsylvania. 1998-1999. In collaboration with three other Mellon Foundation grant recipients, designed and taught an innovative interdisciplinary program for undergraduates that used the Internet and World Wide Web as the forum for teaching critical thinking, research, analysis and written communication. Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-1996. Books PUBLICATIONS Preventive War and American Democracy. (New York: Routledge Press, 2007). *Chinese language version of Preventive War and American Democracy (Beijing: HuaXia Publishing House, 2014). Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004). Current Book Project Germany Rising: the Preventive War Temptation and the Strategic Dilemma of 1930s Europe (expected completion 2015). Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Review Essays Searching for Meaning in the East China Sea, US-China Focus (September 2012). The Legacy of Coercive Peace-Building: The Locarno Treaty and the 1936 Rhineland Crisis, The Challenge of Grand Strategy: the Great Powers and the Broken Balance Between the World 2
Wars, eds. Stephen Lobell, Jeffery Taliaferro, Norrin Ripsman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Preventive War and the Problem of Post-Conflict Political Order: Lessons from the 1930s, International Interactions (March 2011). Bibliographic essays on Preventive War and Preemption, Just War Theory, and Intervention and the Use of Force, in Oxford University Press Online Bibliography of International Relations, January 2011. Editor, Conference Proceedings: 12 th Annual Partnership for Peace Consortium Conference. The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, August 2010. Book review of Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy, in The International History Review (December 2009): 927-930. Chinese Attitudes on Preventive War and the Preemption Doctrine. Monograph prepared for the Institute for National Security Studies, United States Air Force Academy, October 2009. Tradeoffs and Paradoxes: Terrorism, Deterrence and Nuclear Weapons, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 32 (2009): 776 801. With Scott Helfstein, Michael J. Meese, Don Rassler, Reid Sawyer, Troy Schnack, Mathew Sheiffer and Scott Taylor. The Role of Multilateralism in U.S. National Security, American National Security, eds. Amos A. Jordan, William J. Taylor, Michael J. Meese, and Suzanne C. Nielsen (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2009). The 2008 Presidential Election and U.S. Foreign Policy, Journal of Central South University. Social Science edition, Changsha, China, 15, no.1 (2009). Published in Chinese. The Future of Sino-American Relations, Ethics and Public Affairs 3 (2009), Hunan Publishing. Published in Chinese. The Origins of New Security Constructions: Weapons Proliferation and the Preventive War Option, Handbook of Defence Politics, eds. Isaiah Wilson III and James Forest (London: Routledge Press, 2008). Federal Democratic Peace: Domestic Institutions and Military Conflict in the Early American Republic, Security Studies (Spring 2005): 1-55. Liberal International Relations Theory, in Understanding International Relations: the Value of Alternative Lenses, ed. Daniel J. Kaufman, Jay M. Parker, Patrick Howell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004). Democratic Politics and NATO War-Making: Great Britain, Germany and America in the Kosovo 3
Crisis. Available through Columbia International Affairs Online, July 1999. "Federal Democracy and Aggressive Foreign Policy: The Democratic Peace Debate and the American Experience, 1810-1856." Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics Working Paper Series, No. 98-2, July 1998. Available through Columbia International Affairs Online. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS The Legacy of Locarno. Presented at the Grand Strategy Between the Wars conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, March 2009. Preventive War and the Political Costs of War Initiation: What if the Allies Had Attacked Nazi Germany in the Mid-1930s? Presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA. The Preventive War Taboo vs. the Anti-Proliferation Imperative: Contested Norms and Strategic Responses to Nuclear Proliferation. Presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, California. Preventive War as a Non-Proliferation Strategy: Evaluating Domestic Political Tolerance Before and After the Iraq War. Presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii. "The Preventive War Taboo and American Democracy." Presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2004, Chicago Illinois, and at the 2004 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, March 2004, Montreal, Canada. The Ethical Limits of Preventive War. Paper presented at the Use of Force conference, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York, June 2003. Preventive War, the Bush Doctrine, and the Challenge of American Democracy. Paper presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association annual convention, April 6, 2003, Chicago, Illinois. Can Democracies Initiate Preventive War? America s Confrontation with the Soviet Union and Iraq. Paper presented at the International Studies Association annual convention, February 27, 2003, Portland, Oregon. Democratic Politics and NATO War-Making: Great Britain, Germany and America in the Kosovo Crisis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, March 26, 2002. Keeping Congress at Bay: Maximizing Presidential Autonomy by Limiting Military Force. Presented at the Military Decision Processes conference, University of Pennsylvania, February 2002. Federal Democratic Peace: Domestic Institutions and International Conflict in the Early American Republic. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, 4
Illinois, March 23, 2001. Competitive Democratic Politics and Constraints on Military Force: Rethinking the Lessons of the War of 1812 and the Anglo-American Oregon Crisis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 1999. "Creating Discourse Communities Across the Disciplines." Paper presented at the annual Writing Across the Curriculum conference, Cornell University, June 1999. "Federalism and the Democratic Peace Debate: Distinctive Structural Constraints on Foreign Policy." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 1997. "Federal Democracy and Foreign Policy: The Constraining and Compelling Effects of Political Structure." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, March 1997. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2007 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Distinguished Scholar Award. 2003-2004 Research Fellow, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. 1998 Mellon Foundation Grant, Technology in Teaching Initiative. 1996-1998 Chimicles Fellowship in the Teaching of Writing, University of Pennsylvania. 1996 Ira H. Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Pennsylvania. SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Lead Writer, West Point Periodic Review Report for academic accreditation, January 2014-present. Co-Chair, Institutional Effectiveness Committee, January 2012-present. Board of Advisors, Oxford University Press, December 2009-present. Director, International Relations Program, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, 2008-2009, 2012-present. Chair, Merit Scholarship Committee, United States Military Academy, 2008-2009, 2012-2013. Chair of the Creativity Committee, 2008 to present, an inter-departmental subcommittee of the Intellectual Domain Team. Responsible for assessing cadet achievement of this intellectual goal through the CLDS program. Member, Intellectual Domain Team, United States Military Academy, 2008-present. Faculty Advisor, West Point Model United Nations, August 2002 to 2008, 2009-present. Responsible for all faculty level leadership and management of club s budget, schedule, recruitment and selection, training, and travel. Manuscript reviewer, Princeton University Press, Praeger Press Security Studies Series, Routledge Press, International Studies Perspectives, Security Studies, Human Rights Review, Journal of Politics. Board of Directors, Global Studies Foundation, 2004-present. 5
Senior Thesis Advisor, United States Military Academy, 2002 to present. Merit Scholarship Faculty Advisor United States Military Academy, 2002 to present. Army Game Project Team Member, 2001-2003. Assistant Director, Christopher Browne Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania, 1999-2000. Organized and administered all activities of this research center, including an academic and policy-oriented speaker series, a great debate series, working paper research, academic conferences, post-doctoral fellowships, and faculty research grants. Managed a $1 million endowment, a $100,000 operating budget, and permanent and part-time staff. International Relations Program Associate, University of Pennsylvania, 1997-2000. Member of the curriculum review committee and the faculty search committee for new senior thesis instructors. Developed and managed a standardization program for senior thesis instructors. Advised International Relations majors and prospective majors on all aspects of the academic program and career options, and tracked student progress through the major. Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Writing Program, 1997-1998. Supervised the training and performance of ten graduate students each semester who assist faculty members as writing instructors in writing-intensive social science courses. Writing Advisor, University of Pennsylvania Writing Program, 1996-1997. Personal advising for graduate and undergraduate students on academic writing projects. United States Naval Officer, 1985-2000. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE U.S. Naval Reserve, 1993-2000. Navy Command Center, Pentagon. Supported the Europe/Eurasia Politico-Military Affairs Branch of the Chief of Naval Operations staff conducting analysis, writing position papers and preparing briefings on NATO issues. Created and managed a crisis exercise program to train reserve personnel who augment active duty staff in the Navy Crisis Action Center. Crisis watch officer during interventions in Haiti 1994 and Kosovo 1999, and the NATO summit April 1999. Advisor to the Director, Navy Warfare Development Command, U.S. Naval War College, 2000. Provided policy guidance to national-level participants in a global wargame designed to test and evaluate strategic concepts for twenty-first century conflicts. Analyst, United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 1997-1998. Developed and implemented a data collection and analysis plan during two multi-national wargames designed to evaluate the political, military and technological implications of twentyfirst century conflicts. Prepared a set of hypotheses on American strategy for future conflicts used to brief American political and military leaders at the conclusion of each wargame. Naval Flight Officer, Reserve P-3 Squadron, Willow Grove Naval Air Station, 1993-1994. Active Duty U.S. Naval Officer, 1985-1993. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 6
Director, U.S. Navy Crisis Action Center, January 1992-April 1993. Directed the Chief of Naval Operations crisis management staff during Operation Southern Watch in Iraq, the naval embargo operations in the Adriatic Sea, military assistance for Hurricane Andrew relief in southern Florida, and Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. Navy representative on the inter-agency working group for Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. Staff Officer, August 1990-January 1992. Managed all Navy participation in Joint Staff-sponsored worldwide command post exercise program. Assisted Joint Staff in development of exercise scenarios and planning of exercise play. Managed Navy participation in national-level nuclear attack survivability programs (Continuity of Operations Program). Conducted political-military analysis of operational and contingency plans for Europe and the Middle East. Naval Flight Officer, September 1985-August 1990. Mission Commander of a P-3 Orion, tasked with conducting anti-submarine warfare, longrange maritime reconnaissance and patrol. Deployed extensively throughout the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East and East Africa. 7