Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies College of International and Security Studies
Sharyl Cross is Professor of National Security Studies in the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. She also directs the Marshall Center project on countering ideological support for terrorism. Dr. Cross teaches in the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies, the Senior Executive Seminar, and the Program in Advanced Security Studies, for which she offers the elective course on United States-Russia/Eurasia security issues.
Dr. Cross came to the Marshall Center from the United States Air Force Academy, where she had been appointed Visiting Distinguished Professor of Political Science. She is a tenured full professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at San Jose State University in the California State University system. Dr. Cross serves as a periodic lecturer for the NATO School in Oberammergau Germany, and has lectured widely at leading academic and policy institutions throughout the international community.
She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with concentrations in International Relations, Comparative Politics, and American Foreign and Security Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a resident Fellowship Scholar and consultant completing the graduate program in Soviet/Russian studies at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica California in 1984-1987. Originally from Arizona, Dr. Cross graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in Political Science from the University of Arizona in 1983.
Dr. Cross held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1991-1992. She served as Visiting Associate Professor of Transregional Studies from 1992-1994 at the United States Air War College at Maxwell AFB.
In 1999, she was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant to support affiliations as Visiting Research Scholar and Professor at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO). Dr. Cross’ distance education project developed in collaboration with faculty at MGIMO and St. Petersburg State University School of International Relations has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
She has been the recipient of three (2001, 2004, 2006-2007) post-doctoral research grants at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. In 2005, she was invited to serve as Visiting Professor of Transatlantic Relations at the Institute of Political Studies/Sciences Po in Lille France.
Dr. Cross has also been awarded fellowships in support of her research from the International Research and Exchanges Board, US State Department (Title VIII), Office of the Secretary of Defense, California State University, NATO-EAPC, USAF Institute for National Security Studies, Director Sponsored Research at the Marshall Center, American Association for University Women, and University of California, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation. She has served in liaison/advisory capacities for several academic and security studies programs (Fulbright Senior Specialist, Cyber Security/Lomonosov Moscow State University, European Security/Odessa National University, US National Security Dialogue for Senior Leaders Silicon Valley, and others). Dr. Cross has consulted for the US State Department, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and United States European Command on terrorism related and other international security topics.
Dr. Cross has co-edited books on contemporary international security issues with specialists from Russia and China, and her publications have appeared in leading academic peer reviewed journals and books in several countries.
Selected Publications
The United States, Russia, and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges of the Twenty First Century, Paul J. Bolt, Su Changhe, and Sharyl Cross eds., Praeger Security International Series, 2008.
“Toward Building Cooperation in Energy Security,” co-authored with Dianne C. Barton and Mikhail V. Margelov in The United States, Russia, and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges of the Twenty First Century, Paul J. Bolt, Su Changhe, and Sharyl Cross eds., Praeger Security International Series, 2008.
“Advancing International Cooperation in Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism,” co-authored with John C. Reppert and James K. Wither, Ankara Conference Summary Report, published by the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and Center of Excellence-Defense Against Terrorism (Ankara Turkey) November 2007.
“US/NATO-Russia and Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism: Toward Building a Comprehensive Strategy,” Connections, Vol. V, #4, Winter 2006 (served as guest editor with the Connections editorial staff for an expanded two volume issue devoted to countering ideological support for terrorism).
“US/NATO-Russia and Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism in the Information Age,” in V.V. Yashchenko and R. Rohozinski eds., Proceedings Second International Security Conference, Lomonosov Moscow State University Press, 2007.
“Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism: Toward Building a Comprehensive Strategy for the South Caucasus and Beyond,” in The South Caucasus-2006: Main Trends, Threats and Risks, SPECTRUM, Amrots Group, Yerevan, 2007.
“Russia’s Relationship with the US/NATO in the Global War on Terrorism,” Journal of Slavic Military Studies, July 2006.
“Orthodoxy, Weber and the New Russian Capitalism,” co-authored article with Dr. Valentina Fedotova , Social Sciences and Modernity, #2, 2006.
“Russian Orthodoxy: Civic/ Economic Transformation and Support for the Underprivileged,” St. Petersburg State University Press, 2008.
“Ethnonational Identity, Security and the Implosion of Former Yugoslavia: The Case of Montenegro and the Relationship with Serbia,” co-authored with Pauline Komnenich, Nationalities Papers, March 2005.
“Putin’s Turn toward the West: Russia, US-NATO and the War on Terrorism Post September 11,” in Konstantin Khudoley and Dmitri Katsy eds., Post Communist Countries in a Globalizing World, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2004.
“Russia and NATO Toward the 21st Century: Conflicts and Peacekeeping in Bosnia- Herzegovina and Kosovo” published at NATO’s Academic Forum and Journal of Slavic Military Studies, July 2002.
“The Relevance of Gorbachev for 21st Century World Politics,” in Valentin Tolstykh ed., A Millennium Salute to Mikhail Gorbachev on his 70th Birthday, R. Valent Publisher, Moscow, 2001.
Global Security Beyond the Millennium: American and Russian Perspectives, Sharyl Cross, Igor A. Zevelev, Victor A. Kremenyuk and Vagan M. Gevorgian, eds., Macmillan, 1999.
“United States-Russian Security Relations on the Threshold of the 21st Century,” in Sharyl Cross, Igor A. Zevelev, Victor A. Kremenyuk and Vagan M. Gevorgian, eds., Global Security Beyond the Millennium: American and Russian Perspectives, Macmillan, 1999.
“Moscow and the Yugoslav Secession Crisis,” co-authored with Igor A. Zevelev in Constantine P. Danopoulos and Kostas Messas, eds., Crisis in the Balkans: Views from Participants, Westview, 1997.
“The Question of NATO Expansion: Searching for the Optimal Solution,” Mediterranean Quarterly, vol. 7, #1, Winter 1996 and USA: Economy, Politics, Ideology, #9, September 1996, (Moscow).
“Congress, the President and the United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 26, #2, Spring 1996.
“The Military in Cuba,” in Constantine P. Danopoulos and Cynthia Watson, eds., Political Role of the Military, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.
“Learning in the Soviet and Cuban Responses to the Nicaraguan Revolution,” Journal of Political and Military Sociology, vol. 22, Winter 1994.
The New Chapter in United States-Russian Relations: Opportunities and Challenges, Sharyl Cross and Marina A. Oborotova eds., Praeger, 1994.
“Gorbachev's Policy in Latin America: Origins, Impact and the Future,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 26, #3, 1993 and published in the International Relations Working Paper Series, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1993.
“'New Thinking' and the U.S.S.R.'s Economic Behavior in Latin America: Mexico, Brazil and Argentina,” in Deborah Anne Palmieri, ed., The U.S.S.R. and the World Economy Challenges for the Global Integration of Soviet Markets under Perestroika, Praeger, 1992.
Book reviews on topics pertaining to Russian foreign policy and other international relations/security issues published in American Political Science Review (March 2002), International Politics (June 2001), Slavic Review (Spring 1999), Canadian-American Slavic Studies (Winter 1997), Journal of Political and Military Sociology (Winter 1994), Presidential Studies Quarterly (1993), Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (1993).
