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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

Dr. Matthew Rhodes
Professor of National Security Studies
College of International and Security Studies

Matthew Rhodes has been a Professor of National Security Studies in the College of International and Security Studies of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies since 2003. His principle interests include U.S. foreign and security policy, national security decision making, and Central and Southeast European security issues.

Dr. Rhodes previously served as Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Security at the U.S. Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama (1999-2003); Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Central College, Pella, Iowa (1998-1999); and Jan Hus Foundation Academic Mentor in the Department of Politics and European Studies at Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic (1997-1998).

Dr. Rhodes earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and German from Lawrence University of Wisconsin in 1990.

Publications

“Kosovo: America’s ‘NATO State’ in the Balkans,” in Cutting or Tightening the Gordian Knot?: The Future of Kosovo and the Peace Process in the Western Balkans, Study Group on Regional Stability in Southeast Europe of the Partnership for Peace Consortium, (Sept. 2008).
“A Crisis of Democracy in Southeast Europe.” in Approaching or Avoiding Cooperative Security - The Western Balkans in the Aftermath of the Kosovo Settlement Proposal and the Riga Summit, Study Group on Regional Stability in Southeast Europe of the Partnership for Peace Consortium, (Sept. 2007).
“National Strategy and Security Sector Reform in Southeast Europe,” in Security Sector Reform in South East Europe - from a Necessary Remedy to a Global Concept, Study Group on Regional Stability in Southeast Europe of the Partnership for Peace Consortium, (Jan. 2007),
“The U.S. Role in Southeast Europe: In and After the Peace Plans,” in International Peace Plans for the Balkans – A Success?, Study Group on Regional Stability in Southeast Europe of the Partnership for Peace Consortium, (Sept. 2006).
“Iran’s Nuclear Program: U.S. Options after the Elections,” Connections (Summer 2005), pp.93-98.
“U.S. Power after Iraq,” in Jörg Callais, ed. Die USA als Weltmacht, Loccumer Protokol 21/04, pp.43-48.
“Central Europe and Iraq: Balance, Bandwagon, or Bridge?” Orbis, (Summer 2004).
“Visegrad Turns Ten.” Carl Beck Paper in Russian and East European Studies, No.1701, (Mar. 2003).
“Whose Trojan Horses?” Perspectives, (Summer 2002) and International Journal, (Autumn 2002), pp. 631-637.
Book review of J. F. Brown. "The Grooves of Change: Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium." In Current History, (Nov. 2001), p. 395.
“Slovakia After Meciar: A Midterm Report.” Problems of Post-Communism, (July/Aug. 2001), pp. 3-13.
Entries on "Commonwealth of Independent States," "Vladimir Meciar," and “Lech Walesa.” In The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, Alexander Motyl (ed.). (Columbia, 2000), pp. 89, 330-331 and 576.
“Czech Malaise and Europe,” Problems of Post-Communism, (Mar./Apr. 2000), pp.57-66.
“Post-Visegrad Cooperation in East Central Europe.” East European Quarterly, (Mar. 1999), pp. 51-67.

Last updated: Oct 17, 2008