Christopher S. Chivvis
Education
Overview
Biography
Chris Chivvis is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation and adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced international Studies (SAIS). His research interests include European and Eurasian security, NATO, military interventions, and nation-building.
Chivvis has served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy where he worked on Eurasian security issues including missile defense cooperation, NATO-Russia relations, Russia-Georgia and Nagorno Karabakh conflicts. He has held research positions at the French Institute for International Relations (Ifri) in Paris and at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, and taught graduate courses at Johns Hopkins University, New York University, and Sciences Po in Paris.
His articles have appeared in Current History, International Affairs, the Journal of Contemporary History, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, Survival, and the Washington Quarterly, among others. His op-eds have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Washington Times, Christian Science Monitor, CNN.com, and elsewhere. Chivvis received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, SAIS.
Research Focus
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins, SAISRecent Projects
- NATO's Libya Intervention
- North Korea Futures
- Strategic Planning
- Local factors in nation-building
- South Caucasus Security
Selected Publications
Chivvis, Christopher S., "America, the Ambivalent Leader," Current History, 109(730):336, 2010
Chivvis, Christopher S., "Back to the Brink in Bosnia?" Survival, 52(1):1-14, 2010
Chivvis, Christopher S., The Monetary Conservative, Northern Illinois University Press, 2010
Chivvis, Christopher S., "Quelle orientation futur pour l'Otan," Politique Etrangere, (4):791-803, 2009
Chivvis, Christopher S. and Thomas Rid, "The Roots of Germany's Russia Policy," Survival, 51(2), 2009
Chivvis, Christopher S., "The Making of Macedonia," Survival, 50(2), 2008
Chivvis, Christopher S., "Les visions Americaines de l'Otan (American Visions of NATO)," Politique Etrangere, 3(Fall), 2007
Chivvis, Christopher S., "Preserving Hope in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," Survival, 49(2), 2007
Honors & Awards
- Outstanding Achievement Award, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Political Science
Biography
Chris Chivvis is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation and adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced international Studies (SAIS). His research interests include European and Eurasian security, NATO, military interventions, and nation-building.
Chivvis has served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy where he worked on Eurasian security issues including missile defense cooperation, NATO-Russia relations, Russia-Georgia and Nagorno Karabakh conflicts. He has held research positions at the French Institute for International Relations (Ifri) in Paris and at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, and taught graduate courses at Johns Hopkins University, New York University, and Sciences Po in Paris.
His articles have appeared in Current History, International Affairs, the Journal of Contemporary History, the National Interest, Survival, and the Washington Quarterly among others. His op-eds have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Washington Times, Christian Science Monitor, CNN.com, and elsewhere. Chivvis received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, SAIS.
Recent Projects
- Dilemmas of Intervention: Social Science for Stabilization and Reconstruction
- From Insurgency to Stability: Key Capabilities and Practices
- Building a More Resiliant Hatian State
- EU Civilian Crisis Management: The Record So Far
- Europe's Role in Nation-Building: From the Balkans to the Congo
Selected Publications
Christopher S. Chivvis, "America the Ambivalent Leader," Current History, (October), 2010
Christopher S. Chivvis, "Back to the Brink in Bosnia?" Survival, (March), 2010
Christopher S. Chivvis, "Europe's Empty Promises," Foreign Policy, (February), 2010
Christopher S. Chivvis and Harun Dogo, "Getting Back on Track in Bosnia-Herzegovina," The Washington Quarterly, (October), 2010
Christopher S. Chivvis, "The Dayton Dilemma," Survival, (October), 2010
Christopher S. Chivvis, The Monetary Conservative, Northern Illinois University Press, 2010
Christopher S. Chivvis, "Quelle orientation futur pour l'Otan," Politique Etrangere, (December), 2009
Christopher S. Chivvis and Thomas Rid, "The Roots of Germany's Russia Policy," Survival, (May), 2009
Honors & Awards
- Outstanding Achievement Award, Office of the Secretary of Defense
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