Dr. Scott A. Silverstone, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Department of Social Sciences Phone: (845) 938-2800 United States Military Academy E-mail: scott.silverstone@usma.edu West Point, NY 10996 CURRENT POSITIONS Deputy Head, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point, January 2017-present. Professor of International Relations, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point, August 2010-present. Future of War Fellow, New America, Washington, D.C., 2016-present. Adjunct Professor, Bard College Globalization and International Affairs Program, 2007-present. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Ph.D. in Political Science, May 1999. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. B.A. in Political Science, May 1985. EDUCATION ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 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, 2008-2009, 2012-2015. Adjunct Professor, Bard College Globalization and International Affairs program, 2007-present. Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point, August 2004-July 2010. 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.
Assistant Professor/Instructor of International Relations, Undergraduate International Relations Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1996-2000. Books PUBLICATIONS Stopping Hitler? The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2017). 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). Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Review Essays The Hegemon s Dilemma: Power Intolerance from Ancient Athens to the United States of America, in eds. Bruce Chilton and Robert Tully, Intolerance: Political Animals and Their Prey (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2017). Haunted by the Preventive War Paradox, Infinity Journal (June 2016). Introduction: Developing Strategic-Minded Junior Officers, Infinity Journal: Special Edition on International Relations in Professional Military Education (January 2016). Who Are We Teaching - Future Second Lieutenants or Strategic Leaders? Education for Strategic Thinking and Action (with Renee Ramsey), Infinity Journal: Special Edition on International Relations in Professional Military Education (January 2016). American Grand Strategy and the Future of Landpower in Historic Context, in American Grand Strategy and the Future of U.S. Landpower, eds. Joseph Da Silva, Hugh Liebert, and Isaiah Wilson III (Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College Press, 2014). 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 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). 2
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 Crisis. 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. 3
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2016-2017 Future of War Fellow, New America. 2015-2016 Carnegie Fellow, New America. 2015 Department of the Army Exceptional Civilian Service Award. 2015 Department of the Army Superior Civilian Service Award. 2007 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Distinguished Scholar Award. 2003-2004 Research Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in 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 Deputy Head, Department of Social Sciences, January 2017-present. Lead Writer, West Point Periodic Review Report for academic accreditation, 2013-2015. Co-Chair, Institutional Effectiveness Committee, West Point, 2012-2015. Board of Advisors, Oxford University Press, 2009-present. Director, International Relations Program, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, 2008-2009, 2012-2015. Chair, Merit Scholarship Committee, United States Military Academy, 2008-2009, 2012-2013. Chair of the Creativity Committee, United States Military Academy, 2008-2013. Member, Assessment Steering Committee, United States Military Academy, 2008-2013. Faculty Advisor, West Point Model United Nations, August 2002 to 2008, 2009-2011. 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. 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. International Relations Program Associate, University of Pennsylvania, 1997-2000. Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Writing Program, 1997-1998. Writing Advisor, University of Pennsylvania Writing Program, 1996-1997. 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 4
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. 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. 5