Carnegie Council

Scott Silverstone is associate professor of international relations at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point.

His areas of expertise include international relations theory, international security, and American foreign policy, particularly how it gets shaped by the domestic political debate.

Before beginning graduate school in 1993, Silverstone was a U.S. naval officer. He flew for the Navy from 1986 to 1990, and from 1990 to 1993 served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon as a crisis management officer. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.

Resources by this Author:

• The Ethical Limits to Preventive War
• Response to “A New Turn in the New War”
• Can Democracies Initiate Preventive War? America's Confrontation with the Soviet Union and Iraq