Christopher Darnton joins the NSA Department as the newest Professor specializing in Latin America and US Foreign Policy. His work focuses on the domestic politics of foreign policy, particularly related to enduring rivalries and conflict resolution, counterterrorism cooperation and alliance management, regional integration, and state-building. A Latin Americanist, his research and teaching emphasize the international politics of the Americas, with particular interest in what new archival evidence reveals about the Cold War era and beyond.

Dr. Darnton is the author of Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2014), as well as articles in International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, the Journal of Cold War Studies, and Latin American Research Review. His current projects include articles on US-Cuban rapprochement failures, Latin American agency in the Alliance for Progress, and the use and misuse of archival documents in political science, as well as a book on the sectional politics of war and state formation in the Americas.

Chris received a Ph.D. (2009) and MA (2004) in Politics from Princeton University, and a BA in International Relations (2002) from the University of Southern California. Prior to arriving at NPS, he taught at Reed College and the Catholic University of America. 

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