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JAMES BRIAN McNABB
3196 Willow Creek Road, No. A103
Prescott, Arizona 86301
928.445.1250
[email protected]
[email protected]
Formal Education
Claremont Graduate University
170 East Tenth Street, Claremont, CA 91711-6160
Ph.D. in political science, May 2002, specializations in World and
Comparative Politics, dissertation title: “Russian Oil and the Move West:
Evolution, Liberalization and Export Convergence.” Dissertation Chair:
Dr. Harold W. Rood; committee members: Dr. Jacek Kugler and Dr.Yi
Feng.
California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway, SB, CA 92407
M.A. in national security studies, June 1996
United States nuclear policy and evolution; former Soviet
Union area studies. Graduate Advisor: Dr. Mark T. Clark.
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Boulevard, LB, CA 90840
B.A. in philosophy, 1981 Graduate seminars in philosophy of science,
Aristotle, epistemology, symbolic logic, analytic philosophy,
Wittgenstein.
Academic Appointments
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Relations
Troy University, Pacific Region, 18 MSS/DPE Unit 5134, Box 40, APO
AP 96368-5134, December 2006 to Present. As a member of
the faculty of Troy University-Pacific Region, duties include
teaching in the Master of Science in International Relations
(MSIR) Program being offered at Yongsan Army Garrison (Seoul),
Kadena Air Base (Okinawa) and Misawa Air Base (Northern Japan),
through a contract with the United States Department of Defense. Courses
certified to teach are: National Security Policy, Military Strategy and
International Relations, Research Methods, International Political
Economy and Survey of International Relations.
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Assistant Professor, International Relations and Global Studies
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
3700 Willow Creek Road, Prescott, AZ 86301
August 2008 to May 2011. Member of the faculty in the Department of
Global Studies and the Global Security and Intelligence Studies Program
(GSIS). Course taught: International Security and Globalization, Senior
War Games, International Relations, US-Asian Relations, US Military
History, US Government.
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Political Science, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona, 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768
International relations and comparative government. Winter term, 2008
Assistant Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics,
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Chairman, Department of Political
Science, Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic
Research (KIMEP), Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, August 2004 to
June 2006. Courses taught: Government and Politics in Central Asia,
United States - Kazakhstan Relations, Global Security and International
Conflict Resolution, Developmental Studies (graduate seminar),
Philosophical and Epistemological Foundations of the Social Sciences
(graduate seminar focusing on theory construction and research
fundamentals), Introduction to Ethics and Philosophy. The Political
Economy of Development in Central Asia. Comparative Foreign Policy.
Selected Topics in IR: Transcaspian Security. Served as Chair, Academic
Planning and Curriculum Committee -- KIMEP College of Social
Sciences. Selected to participate in the newly developed DBA program
[Doctor of Business Administration] by offering a doctoral-level seminar
in epistemology -- spring 2006.
Lecturer, Department of Political Science and National Security Studies M.A.
Program, California State University, San Bernardino, 2003-04. Courses
taught: Introduction to Political Science, International Politics,
International Relation Theory (NSS MA program), Developing Political
Systems (Comparative Politics).
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Professional Experience
Dissertation research and writing, May 2000 to 2002
Research at Library of Congress and Congressional
Research Service, Washington DC, summer of 2000;
Research Assistant, Claremont Colleges Library
(Honnold-Mudd Library).
Assistant Director, Extended Learning Programs
Claremont Graduate University, April 1999 to April 2000
Served as liaison representative to the Los Angeles Police Department
(LAPD) working with area universities (UCLA, USC, Pepperdine) in
preparing a management/leadership program for LAPD personnel
(captains, commanders, deputy chiefs). Co-developed “Medical Spanish,”
a course which was subsequently offered to students at Western University
of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA.
Federal work-study graduate student, Office of the Vice President of Academic
Affairs, Claremont Graduate University, November 1998-April 1999
Sales representative, Corporate and institutional marketing campaigns
Keeler Advertising, 1890 South Chris Lane, Anaheim, CA 9280
July 1988 to September 1998
Instructor (substitute teacher), Kindergarten through adult education
Garden Grove School District, 10331 Stanford Avenue,
Garden Grove, CA, 92645, September 1987 to June 1988
Marketing Representative, Industrial fuels division
Mock Petrochemical, 17922 Fitch Avenue, Irvine, CA, 92714
stationary power plant fuels supplier, client list included
San Onofre nuclear power plant: gas oil for emergency
back-up generators; Claremont Colleges physical plant,
September 1984 to June 1986
Manager, Supply and Distribution,
Marketing Representative, Petroleum products and marine fuels
Aromalene Oil Company, 2750 East Spring Street, Signal Hill,
CA, 90806; converted the UCLA campus, County-USC Medical Center,
and the Central Heating Power Plant [County of Los Angeles, downtown
Los Angeles] from natural gas to low sulphur fuel oil (LSFO) saving
UCLA $120,000.00 per month in energy costs, County-USC Medical
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Center $80,000.00 and Central Heating $52,000.00 in monthly savings,
June 1982 to September 1984
National Service
Crewmember, United States Research Vessel Hero
National Science Foundation, Washington D.C.
United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP)
Served as able-bodied seaman (US Merchant Marine designation)
aboard 125-foot research ship conducting scientific research in the vicinity
of Palmer Station (US) Antarctica; Ushuaia, Argentina;
Drake Passage, Chile; June 1974 to February 1975
Honors and Awards
Voted Best Professor by the 2009 graduating class of the College of Arts and
Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, May 2009; University
fellowship, Department of Politics and Policy, Claremont Graduate University,
1996-1997 and 1997-1998, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, top ten percent of
the graduate school (measured by GPA), California State University, San
Bernardino, elected June 1996
Publications
“The Power-Benefits Ratio: Change and Adjustment in Global Security,” (Under
review by the Journal of Politics).
“Cavalry Tactics,” “Covert Action, Confederate,” “Covert Operations, USA,”
“Medal of Honor,” “Rifles,” Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Jackson’s (May-June
1862),” “Shenandoah, Confederate Army of the,” “Shenandoah, Union
Department of the,” “Tactics,” in Paul Pierpaoli and Spencer C. Tucker, (eds.)
Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Forthcoming.
“Artillery, Land,” “Arsenals and Munitions Factories,” “Communications,” “U.S.
Congress,” “Forts, (General Overview),” “Pistols,” “Swords,” in Paul Pierpaoli
and Spencer C. Tucker (eds,), Wars of the Early Republic (1783-1812). Santa
Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Forthcoming.
“Special Activities Division CIA,” “Special Collection Service NSA-CIA,”
“Counterterrorist Center CIA,” “Army Intelligence and Security Command,”
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“Iraq--US intelligence operations in/against,” Glenn P. Hastedt, ed. Spies,
Wiretaps, and Secret Operations: An Encyclopedia of American Espionage. Santa
Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, December 2010.
"The Unanticipated Utility of U.S. Security Structures: Avoiding Cold War II in
Central Asia," Comparative Strategy, Vol. 25, No. 4, October-November 2006.
"Changing Society or Cold War II? Shanghai Cooperation Organization versus
NATO," Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies, KISI Proceedings, June 2005.
“Historical Controversy: Germany’s Decision to Conduct Unrestricted
Submarine Warfare and its Impact on the U.S. Declaration of War" (analysis),
“Suez Canal,” “Egypt,” “Hussein Kamil, Sultan of Egypt,” in Spencer C. Tucker,
ed. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
“Engineering, military,” and “Submarines,” in Spencer C. Tucker, ed. American
Military History. New York, NY: Facts On File Publishing, 2003.
“Airborne Operations,” and “Lt. Randall ‘Duke’ Cunningham,” in
Spencer C. Tucker, ed., An Encyclopedia of The Viet Nam War: A Political,
Social, and Military History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Amphibious Operations,” “James Forrestal,” and “Soviet Military Operations
Against Japan,” in Stanley Sandler, ed., World War II in the Pacific: An
Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.
Conferences and Invited Lectures
Paper presentation, “The Power-Benefits Ratio: Change and Adjustment in
Global Security,” 2011 Southern Political Science Association (SPSA)
82d Annual Conference, New Orleans, January 8, 2011
Paper presentation, “Problem Triangulation and International Security,” 2010
Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) 81st Annual Conference,
Atlanta, January 9, 2010
Chair, “Rational Explanations of International Processes,” Panel, 2010
Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) 81st Annual Conference,
Atlanta, January 7, 2010
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Presenter, “US-Chinese Relations,” Misawa Air Base, Japan, April 2008, Special
Luncheon, Presented by Troy University’s Pacific Region MSIR Program.
Chair, "Integration Issues for Transitional Economies," Panel, Fourth
Regional Student Conference held at the Kazakhstan Institute of
Management, Economics, and Strategic Research (KIMEP), Almaty,
Republic of Kazakhstan, October 8-9, 2004. The conference gathered
over seventy young researchers from eleven countries representing more
than forty universities. Keynote delivered by Mr. Gordon Johnson, United
Nations Developmental Program (UNDP-Kazakhstan).
Presenter, "US Strategic Tasks and Objectives in the 21st Century," FriedrichEbert-Stiftung/Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies International
Conference, "Regional Cooperation in the Caspian Region: Perspectives
for the 21st Century," Hyatt Regency Hotel, Almaty, Republic of
Kazakhstan, May 27, 2005.
Presenter, "Changing Society or Cold War II? Shanghai Cooperation
Organization versus NATO," 5th Annual KIMEP International Research
Conference, 6-8 October 2005: "Changing Society through Research and
Practice, Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic
Research (KIMEP), Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.
Delivered a series of invited lectures on the political economy of
development, epistemology, and the philosophy of science to graduate
students and faculty at the Gulyimov Eurasian National University in
Astana, Kazakhstan, December 2005.