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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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James Kenneth Wither (UK)
Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program
College of International and Security Studies

Professor James Wither has been a member of the Marshall Center Faculty since 2000. He is Professor of National Security Studies and Director of the Senior and International Fellows Programs. He is a member of the teaching faculty for the Program in Terrorism and Security Studies and the Program in Advanced Security Studies. Professor Wither is a retired British Army officer and former researcher in 20th century warfare at the Imperial War Museum in London

Professor Wither holds an MSc in Strategic Studies from the University of Wales, a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Open University, UK, a BA (Hons) in History from Kings College, University of London and a Postgraduate Diploma in further and higher education, from Garnett College, University of London.

His research and teaching interests lie in the fields of armed conflict, terrorism, national security strategy, UK/US relations, negotiations in international disputes and professional military education.

Publications

“Selective Engagement with Islamist Terrorists: Exploring the Prospects” in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 2008 (forthcoming).
"Trends in Warfare" in Lester Kurz ed. Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict; Vol. 3, (Oxford: Elsevier Ltd, 2008).
“Al Qaeda and Global Jihad: Disaggregating or Disintegrating?” in Social Dynamics of Global Terrorism and Prevention Policies, N. Cabuk Kaya and A Erdemir eds. (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2008) pp. 105 – 118.
“Advancing International Cooperation in Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism,” co-authored with Sharyl Cross and John C. Reppert, 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.
“A Work in Progress: The United Kingdom’s Campaign against Radicalization”. George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Occasional Paper Series No. 9, February 2007. Reprinted in Serbian in Воjно Дело (Military Affairs) No. 2, 2008, pp.154 - 174.
“The Endangered Partnership: The Anglo-American Defence Relationship in the Early 21st Century” European Security Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 47 – 65.
“Battling Bullying in the British Army 1987 – 2004”, in Francoise Daucé and Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (eds.) Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military: Hazing of Russian Conscripts in a Comparative Perspective (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2006) Also translated into Albanian and re-printed in Revista Ushtarake (Military Magazine), December 2005.
“Cooperative Security: Responses to Contemporary Threats and Challenges” Security and Society Vol. 1, No. 1, November/December 2005, pp. 17 - 34.
“European Security and Private Military Companies: The Prospects for Privatized Battlegroups,” Connections: The Quarterly Journal, PfP Consortium, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 107 - 126.
“Expeditionary Forces for Post Modern Europe: Will European Military Weakness Provide an Opportunity for the New Condottieri?” Conflict Studies Research Centre, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Special Series 05/04, January 2005).
“British Bulldog or Bush's Poodle? Anglo-American Relations and the Iraq War.” Parameters: The Journal of the US Army War College. (Vol. XXXIII, No. 4) Winter 2003-4, [on line] Available from http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/03winter/wither.pdf Also reprinted in Nowe Sprawy Polityczne (Political Affairs) (No. 2/29) 2004.
“Civil-Military Relations in the United Kingdom: Tradition, Continuity, and Change,” in Jean Callaghan and Franz Kernic (eds.), Armed Forces and International Security: Global Trends and Issues (Muenster, Hamburg, and Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2003 and Piscataway, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2003).

Last updated: August 20, 2008