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	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Dr. Christopher C. Harmon
Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies
Professor College of International and Security Studies

Dr. Christopher C. Harmon is the director of the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies in the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. His expertise is in the fields of terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and revolutionary warfare, counter-insurgency, and international relations.

Dr. Harmon came to the Marshall Center in September 2007, having taught courses on terrorism and counterterrorism at five graduate schools. He inaugurated the Marine Corps University’s Kim T. Adamson Chair in Insurgency and Terrorism (2005—2007) after 12 years of previous service in Quantico Virginia as a professor of international relations.

When Dr. Harmon’s book Terrorism Today appeared in 2000, the London Times Literary Supplement called it “a masterly survey of the big picture of worldly violence.” Several years later the Naval War College Review said the book “remains the best single volume on post-Cold War terrorism.” The new text, a second edition, was published by Routledge in late 2007.

Dr. Harmon is a summa cum laude graduate of Seattle University who went on to Claremont Graduate School for masters and doctoral work in international relations and government. His dissertation was on terrorism in Europe. He’s also been a congressional staffer, focused on terrorism issues and national security. Dr. Harmon’s academic fellowships have included the Earhart Foundation, the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford. Harmon’s first book was Statecraft and Power: Essays in Honor of H. W. Rood, co-written and co-edited with David Tucker (now of the Naval Postgraduate School faculty).

Recent articles and chapters

Public Diplomacy’s Next Challenge. Connections, Spring 2008.
The Myth of the Invincible Terrorist. Policy Review, Spring 2007.
Counterterrorism and the U.S. Military since 9-11. In John M. Carroll & Colin F. Baxter (eds.), The American Military Tradition, 2nd edition, 2006.
What History Suggests about Terrorism and Its Future. In Williamson Murray & Richard Sinnreich (eds.), The Past As Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Double Bombings. Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International, Nov. 2005. Fanaticism and Guerrilla Warfare in the Late Twentieth Century. In Frank Cass, Matthew Hughes & Gaynor Johnson (eds.), Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age, 2005.
Partnerships in Counterterrorism. Vital Speeches, Sept. 15, 2005.
How al-Qaeda May End. A backgrounder for The Heritage Foundation, May 19, 2004.
Work in Common: Democracies and Opposition to Terrorism. BIISS Journal (Bangladesh), 2002.
Advancing U.S. National Interests Through Effective Counterterrorism. Vital Speeches, Dec. 15, 2001.
Five Strategies of Terrorism. Small Wars & Insurgencies, Autumn, 2001.
Terror Group Operations. In two parts, Journal of Counterterrorism & Security International, 2000-2001.

Last updated: July 23, 2008