David P. Houghton
David Patrick Houghton (born November 21, 1966) is a Senior Fellow/Associate at LSE IDEAS and a retired Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College.[1]
David P. Houghton | |
|---|---|
| Born | David Patrick Houghton November 21, 1966 |
| Nationality | British American |
| Alma mater | University of Sheffield University of Pittsburgh |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | International relations |
| Institutions | US Naval War College |
Education and early career
Houghton was born and raised in St. Helens and Warrington in the northwest of England, but he is of mostly Irish and Italian descent. He received a B.A with Honours in politics from the University of Sheffield in 1989. He also received an M.A. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992, and a Ph.D. from the same school in 1996 with a thesis on "The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Foreign and Domestic Policy Contexts".
He was then a lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex from 1997 to 2003. From 2001 to 2002, he was a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University, during a period of research leave from Essex. He taught at the University of Central Florida between 2003 and 2013, and was a senior lecturer in defence studies at King's College London from 2013 to 2016.
Career
Houghton's areas of expertise are political psychology, foreign policy decision-making, American foreign policy and US-Iranian relations. In addition to six books, he has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles. One of his books, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis, was a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has also done media interviews on the Iran hostage crisis and other topics with The New York Times,[2] Sky News, National Public Radio, WOFL (Fox 35 Orlando) and other outlets He is also a writer for Project Syndicate.
Bibliography
Books
- Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: British Foreign Policy Since 1945 (Second Edition with David Sanders) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy: Tragic Choices and the Limits of Rationality (Citizen Guides to Politics and Public Affairs) New York and London: Routledge, 2013.[3]
- The Decision Point: Six Case Studies in U.S. Foreign Policy Decision-Making New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.[4]
- Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases (New York and London: Routledge, 2009).
- Controversies in American Politics and Society with David McKay and Andrew Wroe. New York and Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002.
- U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
References
- "U.S. Naval War College | David Houghton, Ph.D." www.usnwc.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-12-30.
- Shane, Scott (29 September 2012). "Romney Team Tries Hanging a Jimmy Carter Label on Obama". The New York Times.
- "Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books".
- http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/?view=usa&ci=9780199743520