Biography

Peter Chalk (Ph.D. in Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada) is a RAND policy analyst who has analyzed such topics as unconventional security threats in Southeast and South Asia; new strategic challenges for the US Air Force (USAF) in Latin America, Africa and South Asia; evolving trends in national and international terrorism; Australian defense and foreign policy; international organized crime; the transnational spread of disease; and U.S. military links in the Asia-Pacific. He is a correspondent for Jane's Intelligence Review and Associate Editor of Studies in Conflict Terrorism, one of the foremost journals in the international security field. Dr. Chalk has regularly testified before the U.S. Senate on issues pertaining to national and international terrorism and is author of numerous publications on various aspects of low-intensity conflict in the contemporary world. Dr. Chalk also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Postgraduate Naval School in Monterey, California and contractor for the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu and the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) in Washington D.C. Before coming to RAND, Dr Chalk was an Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Strategic and Defense Studies Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra.