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CHRISTOPHER P. TWOMEY
Naval Postgraduate School
Department of National Security Affairs
1411 Cunningham Road, Glasgow Hall 376
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: (831) 444-2006
Fax: (831) 656-2949
[email protected]
faculty.nps.edu/ctwomey
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Political Science
February 2005
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Pacific International Affairs
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
Revelle College
June 1993
UC San Diego
June 1990
University of California at San Diego
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif.
Associate Professor, July 2011-present.
Associate Chair for Research, September 2007-September 2009.
Director, Center for Contemporary Conflict, September 2007-September 2009.
Assistant Professor, November 2004- June 2011.
Department of Political Science, Boston College, Newton, Mass.
Adjunct Assistant Professor/Instructor, January 2003 to December 2004.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Research Fellow/Consultant, National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), 2009-present.
Adjunct Staff, RAND Corporation, 2014-present (intermittent consultant since 1996).
Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), 2014-present.
PAST RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
International Security Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2001-2003.
Visiting Scholar, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing,
China, 1999.
Energy, Technology, and International Affairs Research Summer Fellowship, Center for
International Studies, M.I.T., Summer 2003 (declined AY2001-02 full year fellowship).
Research Assistant, Security Studies Program, M.I.T., 1996-1998, 2000-2001.
National Security Education Program Fellowship, 1998-1999.
Transnational Security Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Center
for International Studies, M.I.T., 1995.
Policy Researcher for Asia, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of
California, 1993-1994.
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Military Lens: Doctrinal Difference and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010).
Reviewed in China Quarterly, International Studies Review, Choice, Journal of Cold War Studies,
Parameters, Naval War College Review, and Millennium.
Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues, editor (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2008).
Power and Prosperity: The Links between Economics and Security in Asia-Pacific, co-editor
(with Susan L. Shirk) (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction/Rutgers University Press, 1996).
Principal Articles
“Projecting Strategy: The Myth of Chinese Counter-intervention,” (with M. Taylor Fravel) The
Washington Quarterly (January 2015).
“Nuclear Stability at Low Numbers: The Perspective from Beijing," The Nonproliferation
Review 20, 2 (2013): 289-303.
“Asia’s Complex Strategic Environment: Nuclear Multipolarity and Other Dangers,” Asia Policy,
11 (January 2011): 51-78. Fifth most downloaded Asia Policy article in 2011.
“Chinese-U.S. Strategic Affairs: Dangerous Dynamism,” Arms Control Today, vol. 39, no. 1
(January/February 2009).
"Lacunae in the Study of Culture in International Security," Contemporary Security Policy, vol.
29, no. 2 (Aug 2008): 1-20.
“Explaining Chinese Foreign Policy toward North Korea: Navigating between the Scylla and
Charybdis of Proliferation and Instability,” Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 17, no. 56
(August 2008): 401-23.
Reprinted in China’s International Relations in Asia, Volume I, Li Mingjiang, ed. (New York: Routledge,
2009).
“Grasping Tactical Success, Missing Strategic Opportunity in US China Policy since September
11th,” Asian Survey, vol. 47, no. 4 (August 2007): 536-59.
“America’s Bismarkian Asia Policy,” (with Eric Heginbotham) Current History, vol. 104, no.
683 (September 2005): 243-50.
“Japan, a ‘Circumscribed Balancer’: Building on Defensive Realism to Make Predictions about
East Asian Security,” Security Studies 9, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 167-205.
“The McNamara Line and the Turning Point for Civilian Scientist-Advisors in Defence Policy,”
Minerva 37, no. 3 (Autumn 1999) pp. 235-58.
“A Survey of European Monetary Policy Issues: The E.M.S. and the Future of Maastricht,”
Journal of Public and International Affairs 4 (Spring 1993): pp. 59-77.
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Book Chapters
“Chinese Attitudes Toward Missile Defense Technology and Capabilities,” with Michael Chase,
in Missile Defense: The Fourth Wave and Beyond, and Catherine M. Kelleher and Peter J.
Dombrowski, eds. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015, forthcoming).
“China and the US,” in Routledge Handbook of Chinese Security, Lowell Dittmer and Maochun
Yu, eds. (New York: Routledge Publishers, June 2015, forthcoming).
“What’s in a Name? Building Anti-Access/Area Denial Capabilities without Anti-Access/Area
Denial Doctrine” in Assessing the PLA under Hu Jintao, David Lai, Roy Kamphausen, Travis
Tanner, eds. (Carlisle, Penn.: Strategic Studies Institute Book, 2014): 129-71.
“The Security Dynamic,” in Debating China: The US-China Relationship in Ten Conversations,
Nina Hachigian, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Full length review appeared in Foreign Affairs, April 2014.
“The Military-Security Relationship,” in Tangled Titans: The United States and China, David
Shambaugh, ed. (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012).
Named "Outstanding Academic Title for 2013” by Choice.
Translated and published in Chinese by Xinhua Publishing House, 2014.
“The People’s Liberation Army’s Selective Learning: Lessons of the Iran-Iraq ‘War of the Cities’
Missile Duels and Uses of Missiles in Other Conflicts,” in Chinese Lessons from Other Peoples’
Wars, Andrew Scobell, David Lai, and Roy Kamphausen, eds. (Carlisle, Penn.: Strategic Studies
Institute Book, 2011).
“Limits of Coercion: Compellence, Deterrence, and Cross-Strait Political-Military Affairs,” in
Cross-Strait Relations: New Opportunities and Challenges for Taiwan’s Security, Roger Cliff,
Phillip C. Saunders, and Scott W. Harold, eds., CF-279-OSD (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND,
2011): 47-64.
“Dangers and Prospects in Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Relations,” and
“Comparing Perspectives: Dangers to Avoid, Prospects to Develop,” in Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues, Christopher P. Twomey, ed.
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
“The Dangers of Overreaching: International Relations Theory, the US-Japan Alliance, and
China,” in Benjamin L. Self and Jeffrey W. Thompson, eds., An Alliance for Engagement:
Building Cooperation in Security Relations with China (Washington, DC: Henry L. Stimson
Center, 2002): 3-29.
“The Eagle Eyes the Pacific: American Foreign Policy Options in East Asia after the Cold
War” (with Richard Samuels), in Patrick Cronin and Michael Green, eds., The U.S.-Japan
Alliance: Past, Present, and Future (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1999).
Published in Japan as Nichibei Domei:Beikokku no Senryaku.
Also published as an M.I.T.-Japan Program Working Paper, April 1997.
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“Exploiting the Economic-Security Linkage: Recognition and Balance” (with Susan L. Shirk), in
Shirk and Twomey, eds., Power and Prosperity: The Links between Economics and Security in
Asia-Pacific (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction/Rutgers University Press, 1996).
Major Reports
“Challenges and Opportunities for Building a Cooperative U.S.-China Strategic Relationship,” in
Building Toward a Stable and Cooperative Long-Term U.S.-China Strategic Relationship, Lewis
Dunn, ed., Issues and Insights, vol., 13, no. 2, December 2012. (Simultaneously published in
Chinese by Chinese Arms Control and Disarmament Association)
“The New Navy Fighting Machine: A Study of the Connections Between Contemporary Policy,
Strategy, Sea Power, Naval Operations, and the Composition of the U.S. Fleet,” (as project
contributor with CAPT (ret.) Wayne Hughes, et al) NPS-OR-09-02-PR for Office of Net
Assessment, August 2009, 82 pages.
China’s Non-Bureaucratic Research Community in National Security Policymaking: Case
Studies and General Patterns (co-author with Eric Heginbotham and Scot Murray Tanner),
PM-3242 (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, January 2009). (Peer reviewed.)
Future Warfare Scenarios and Asymmetric Threats (co-author with Bruce Bennett and Greg
Treverton), MR-1025-OSD, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation (1998). (Restricted
circulation.) (Peer reviewed.)
Book Reviews
Book review of George Gilboy and Eric Heginbotham, Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior:
Growing Power and Alarm (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), Political Science
Quarterly, vol. 128, no. 4, Winter 2013, Pages: 759–760.
“Balancing Identity and Reality,” book review roundtable on David Kang, China Rising: Peace,
Power, and Order in East Asia (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2008), Asia Policy,
no 6 (July 2008): 157-62.
Book review of Jean Garrison, Making China Policy: From Nixon to G. W. Bush (New York, NY:
Lynne Rienner, 2005), Political Psychology, vol. 28, no. 1 (2007): 138-42.
“Avoiding Tragedy in Sino-American Relations,” book review of John J. Mearsheimer, The
Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001), Issues and Studies 39,
no. 2 (June 2003).
“An Illustration of Interdisciplinary Confusion”, book review of Gary C. Bryner ed., Global
Warming and the Challenge of International Cooperation: An Interdisciplinary Assessment
(Provo, UT: Kennedy Center Publications, 1992), The Journal of the Environment and
Development 2, no. 2 (Summer 1993): pp. 218-221.
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Mass Media
After the Summit: Investing in Nuclear Materials Security, NBR Analysis Brief, April 2012.
“Distracted at the Creation: Assessing the Bush Administration’s China Policy in the 21st
Century,” Audits of the Conventional Wisdom, 07-17 (Cambridge, Mass.: Center for International
Studies, M.I.T., October 2007).
“China’s Military Might,” The Commonwealth, vol. 100, no. 19 (October 2006).
Media Consultant, international security affairs, on the military operations in Afghanistan and
Iraq (over thirty appearances on Fox 25 News (Boston), two live appearance on CNN Headline
News, numerous print and radio interviews), October 2001-May 2003.
“The Future of Japanese Security: Advice from Abroad,” (co-author with Richard Samuels,
George Gilboy, and Eric Heginbotham) Bungei Shunju, vol. 78, no. 8 (June 2000): 145-74.
“The Vietnam War and the End of Civilian-Scientist Advisors in Defense Policy,” Breakthroughs
9, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 12-20.
Reprinted in Early Bird Supplement, May 1, 2000.
“Japan: How Dependable a Security Partner?” (with Richard Samuels), Los Angeles Times,
March 31, 1996, Op-Ed, p. M2.
Numerous Public and Community Service Lectures:
STRATCOM's Deterrence Symposium, 2014, 2011; Air Force Association Forum on Aerospace Power (2014);
Wilton Park, UK (2013, 2008); Hoover Institution (2014, 2013, 2011) and CISAC (2012), Stanford; New
America Foundation; National Committee on North Korea; Commonwealth Club (2006, broadcast twice
nationwide on National Public Radio); SSP, MIT (2009); Carmel Democratic Women’s Club; Salinas Rotary
Club; Carmel Lions Club; and Monterey Peninsula College Library Lecture Series.
Other Publications
“Introduction: Dangerous Dynamism in Asia’s Nuclear Future,” Asia Policy, no. 19 (January, 2015): pp. 1-4.
Michael Glosny, Christopher Twomey, and Ryan Jacobs “US-China Strategic Dialogue, Phase VIII” PASCC Report
2014-008, December 2014.
Michael Glosny, Christopher Twomey, and Ryan Jacobs “US-China Strategic Dialogue, Phase VII” PASCC Report
2013-003, May 2013.
Eben Lindsey, Michael Glosny, and Christopher Twomey, “US-China Strategic Dialogue, Phase VI” PASCC Report
2012-001, November 2011.
Michael Glosny and Christopher P. Twomey, “Connecting Long Term Goals to Contemporary Policy” U.S.-China
Strategic Dialogue, Phase V Conference Report, NPS Technical Report, NPS-NS-10-02 (October 2010): 48 pages.
“Achieving Stability in Sino-American Nuclear Affairs” U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue, Phase IV Conference
Report, Distributed by DTRA, May 2009, 24 pages plus appendices.
“Final Adjudication and Analysis of the Fifth Asia-Pacific Crisis Simulation,” (co-author with Richard J. Samuels, et
al) M.I.T. Center for International Studies, June 2008.
“The Role of National Perceptions of Security Environments in Shaping Sino-American Nuclear Affairs” U.S.China Strategic Dialogue, Phase III Conference Report, NPS Technical Report, NPS-NS-08-01, January 28, 2008,
23 pages plus appendices.
“U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue, Phase II: Conference Report,” NPS Technical Report, NPS-NS-07-01, April 12,
2007, 48 pages plus appendices.
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“China Policy toward North Korea and its Implications for the United States: Balancing competing concerns,”
Strategic Insights, vol. V, issue 7 (August/September 2006).
Comparative Strategic Cultures-Phase 1, Workshop Proceedings, edited with Elizabeth Stone and Peter Lavoy, (Fort
Belvoir, Virginia: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, April 2006).
“Appendix/Annotated Brief: The Middle Kingdom Redux,” in Wayne Hughes, “East Asian Futures: A Workshop
Report,” NPS Technical Report, NPS-OR-06-005, Monterey, Calif., 2006.
“Conference Report: Comparative Strategic Culture,” (with Elizabeth L. Stone) Strategic Insights, vol. IV, issue 10
(October 2005). Also published in Comparative Strategic Cultures-Phase 1, Workshop Proceedings, Elizabeth
Stone, Christopher Twomey, and Peter Lavoy, eds. (Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, April
2006).
“Chinese Doctrines as Strategic Culture: Assessing their Effects,” Strategic Insights, vol. IV, issue 10 (October
2005).
“Conference Report: U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue,” (with Peter R. Lavoy and Elizabeth L. Stone) Strategic
Insights, vol. IV, issue 9 (September 2005).
“US-China Strategic Dialogue-Conference Report,” NPS Technical Report, NPS-NS-06-001, August 3, 2005.
“Japan’s Foreign Policy Future: Implications from International Relations Theory,” Précis, M.I.T. Center for
International Studies, vol. 11, no. 1 (Fall 2001): 9-14.
What Are Asymmetric Strategies? (with Bruce Bennett and Greg Treverton), DB-246-OSD, Santa Monica, Calif.:
RAND (1999).
“Final Adjudication and Analysis,” (co-author with Richard Samuels, Jenny Lind, and Yinan He) Third Biannual
M.I.T. Asia Pacific Crisis Simulation, M.I.T. Japan Program Working Paper #97-03, May 1997.
“Options for Preventing Illicit Trafficking in Fissile Materials” (as member of M.I.T. Study Group on Nuclear
Materials Management), Pacific Review (May 1995): 33-38.
“Final Adjudication and Analysis”, (with Richard Samuels, Stephen Van Evera, George Gilboy, and Eric
Heginbotham) Second Biannual M.I.T. Asia Pacific Crisis Simulation, M.I.T. Japan Program Working Paper
#95-02, May 1995.
“Introduction,” (with Michael Stankiewicz) in “The U.S. and Japan in Asia: Conference Papers”, IGCC Policy
Paper #10, November 1994.
“Introduction,” (with Susan L. Shirk) in “Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue II: Conference Papers”, IGCC Policy
Paper #9, August 1994.
“Beginning Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: A report on the first meeting of the Institute on Global Conflict
and Cooperation’s Northeast Asian Cooperation Dialogue” (with Susan L. Shirk) in PacNet, Pacific Forum, CSIS
(Nov. 5, 1993).
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Faculty
Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
Associate/Assistant Professor
November 2004-present
Courses:
Introduction to International Relations; Chinese Foreign Policy; and East
Asian Security: Theory and Practice.
Student and other evaluations
Average 4.64 on 5-point scale on overall rating as a professor across all classes taught as of 2011.
LCDR David L. Williams Outstanding Professor Award, 2009.
Department of Political Science, Boston College
Adjunct Assistant Professor/Instructor
January 2003-December 2004
Courses:
International Political System, East Asian Security, Chinese Politics, and
Chinese Foreign Policy.
Student evaluations
Official BC evaluations for Spring ‘03, Fall ’03, and Spring ‘04 (five courses, 76 students responding):
“Rating instructor deserves as a teacher”: Excellent-61%; Very Good-29%; Good-8%.
BC student government “overall professor rating”: 9.8 on 10-point scale.
Teaching Assistant
Department of Political Science, M.I.T.
Fall 1999 and 2000
Courses: American Foreign Policy (Professor Stephen Van Evera) and International Relations of East Asia (Professor Thomas Christensen).
Average student evaluation in “overall rating” category: 6.2 on 7-point scale.
Graduate School of Int’l Relations & Pacific Studies, UCSD
Course:
1992 and 1993
U.S. Security Policy (Professor Michael May).
Department of Economics, UC San Diego
Fall 1989, Winter and Spring 1990
Other Potential Course Offerings
Causes of War
Strategic Studies and Grand Strategy
Strategic Culture in International Relations
Nuclear and Strategic Deterrence
Modern American Foreign Policy
American National Security Policy
The Taiwan Straits and American Foreign Policy
Dominos in E. Asia?: Reassessing the Cold
War’s Frontline
Other Teaching Experience
• Advised over twenty-five theses, including six award winners (plus second reader on over a
dozen others).
• Numerous lectures to Regional Security Education Program and various military short courses
at NPS.
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MAJOR GRANTS RECEIVED
Principal Investigator, “U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue, stages I-IX” ($2M), funded by U.S. Defense Threat
Reduction Agency (DTRA), FY2004-present.
Principal Investigator, “NPS Asia Conference” ($1M), funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense-Policy (Asia
and Pacific Security Affairs), FY2008-present.
Principal Investigator, “Case Studies on Military Doctrine and Misperception” ($120K), funded by Research
Initiation Program, Naval Postgraduate School, 2005-06.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Peter Lavoy), “Comparative Strategic Culture” ($70K), funded by DTRA, 2004-05.
Supported work on grants from Office of Net Assessment, STRATCOM, OSD-P (APSA), OPNAV, and other U.S.
Government offices.
AWARDS, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, AND SERVICE
External Peer Reviewer, International Security, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies,
International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Asian Survey, Comparative Strategic Policy, Journal of
Contemporary China, Journal of East Asian Studies, Asia Security, International Studies Review, Asia Policy,
Review of International Studies, Issues and Studies, Cornell University Press, Georgetown University Press,
National Bureau of Asian Research, National Academy of Sciences, and Routledge Publishers.
Service at NPS: Research Board member, September 2007 to present; Faculty Council member, 2010-present;
Search Committees 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012; Tenure promotion committee, 2014; Associate Chair
for Research and Director, Center for Contemporary Conflict, September 2007-September 2009; NPS Faculty
Council Executive Board member, 2011-2012; NPS TIGIR Team member, 5 different teams, 2012-2013;
Hamming Award Committee Member, 2010; PhD Program Committee, 2006; Web Page Faculty Coordinator,
2006-2009; Asian Curriculum Committee, 2005; RSEP Program lectures, 2004-present; and Environmental
Security Curriculum Committee, 2006.
Surveyed “expert on military affairs," Foreign Policy, “The FP Survey: The Future of War,” 2012 and 2013. (Fewer
than 100 nationally recognized experts surveyed)
LCDR David L. Williams Outstanding Professor Award, 2009.
Public and Community Service Lectures: STRATCOM's Deterrence Symposium, 2014, 2011; Wilton Park, UK;
Hoover Institution and CISAC, Stanford; New America Foundation; National Committee on North Korea;
Commonwealth Club (broadcast twice nationwide on National Public Radio); SSP, MIT; Carmel Democratic
Women’s Club; Salinas Rotary Club; Carmel Lions Club; and Monterey Peninsula College Library Lecture
Series.
Fellowship Review Panelist, National Security Education Program, Academy for Academic Development,
Washington DC, 2004.
Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), 2014-present; International Studies Association (ISA),
2002-present; Security Studies Junior Faculty Group, 2003-present; American Political Science Association,
intermittent since 1995.
Participant, Sino-American Security Dialogue, 2004-2007.
LANGUAGES, SKILLS, AND QUALIFICATIONS
Mandarin Chinese (August 1999: OPI level “Advanced High”/ILR level 2+/3-); Spanish (basic).
Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance held since 2006.
Computer literacy (Sakai, Blackboard, Visual Basic, HTML, Mac OS X, Pascal, and basic networking and UNIX).
References available upon request.
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