Faculty

John Garofano is Dean of Academic Affairs, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI. Previously he was Professor, Strategy and Policy Department, and Professor, National Security Decision Making Department, U.S. Naval War College. He received the Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University and an M.A. from Cornell and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Bologna/ Washington).

Dr. Garofano’s research interests include military intervention, Asian security, and the making of U.S. foreign policy. His writings include The Intervention Debate: Towards a Posture of Principled Judgment (Carlisle, PA: 2002), Clinton’s Foreign Policy: A Documentary Record (ed., Kluwer, 2003), and articles in International Security, Asian Survey, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Orbis and the Naval War College Review among other journals.

Prior to joining the War College’s faculty, Dr. Garofano was a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and professor at the U.S. Army War College, the Five Colleges of Western Massachusetts, and the University of Southern California. For the past five years he has held the Captain Jerome Levy Chair of Economic Geography at NWC.