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Chris Demchak

Associate Professor

• Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California at Berkeley
  

Current Courses

• PA 496L/596L Government Security and the REsponse to Terrorism
• MAP 435 International Management
• PA 406 Bureau, Politics and Policy
• PA 502 Management and Sec, Public Nonprofit Information Systems

Areas of Expertise

• Information systems
• National security

Publications and Working Papers

2003. “Wars of Disruption: International Competition and Information Technology-Driven Military Organizations”..Contemporary Security Policy: 24:1(April} 75-112.

-----. 2003. “"Atrium" - A Knowledge Model for Modern Security Forces in the Information and Terrorism Age”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Proceedings Intelligence and Security Informatics (First annual NSF/NIJ Symposium, ISI 2003). Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg. 2665:2003 (January) 223 - 231

-----. 2003."Creating the Enemy: Worldwide Diffusion of an Electronic Military" In Goldman, Emily and Leslie C. Eliason, eds. The Diffusion of Military Knowledge from the Napoleonic Era to the Information Age. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

-----. 2003. “Cyber War: Emerging Lessons from the Palestinian/Israeli Hacker Conflict.” Military Review. 83:2 (March-April) (with Patrick D. Allen).

-----. 2002. "Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web". Administration and Society. 34:4 (September) 411-446. (with Todd M. LaPorte, and Martin de Jong)

-----. 2002. “Complexity and a Midrange Theory of Networked Militaries.” In Farrell, Theo, and Terry Terriff. 2000. The Sources of Military Change: Culture, Politics, Technology. New York: Lynne Rienner Publisher.

-----. 2002. "Un-Muddling Homeland Security: Design Principles for National Security in a Complex World". The Forum, an online journal of applied research in contemporary politics. 1:2 (fall) online. http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol1/iss2/art2

-----. 2003. Review essay of The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security. Grant T. Hammond. 2001. London: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Contemporary Security Policy.

2004. “Organization and the Conduct of War”. Contemporary Security Policy, special issue ‘National Security in the Information Age’.

-----. 2004 “Balancing Security and Privacy in the Information and Terrorism Age: Distinguishing Behavior from Identity Institutionally and Technologically” The Forum. With Kurt Fenstermacher.

Professional Associations

• Member, SPAP Faculty Evaluation Committee
• Member, College Professional Programs Committee
• Member, Program Committee, 1st annual Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, 2-3 June 2003
• Member, Mideast Center
• Elected Chair, American Political Science Association organized Section, International Studies and Arms Control Section, 1999-2005.
• Elected Board member, International Studies Association, International Security Studies Section, 2003-2006
• Program Chair, American Political Science Association organized Section, International Studies and Arms Control Section panels and papers, annual meeting, 2003
  

Awards

• Presentation “The Need for, and Design of, an IO-ISR Federation of Models" (with Patrick D. Allen) was awarded the SISO certificate for one of ten best works presented at the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization's (SISO) annual conference and proceedings, Mar 2000, Orlando, Florida.

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