Faculty

Dr. Paul J. Smith joined the NSA department in July 2006 and teaches the Security Strategies course. Prior to coming to the Naval War College, he was an associate/assistant professor with the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (Hawaii) from 1997 to 2006. His current research focuses on two general subjects: Chinese foreign policy and transnational security issues. He has published articles in both of these subject areas in such journals as Asian Affairs: an American Review, Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Harvard Asia-Pacific Review, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, Journal of Third World Studies, Orbis, Parameters, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Survival. His chapter contributions have appeared in such books as The Impact of 9/11 on Business and Economics: The Business of Terror (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Fixing Fractured Nations: the Challenge of Ethnic Separatism in the Asia-Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Tiger’s Roar: Asia’s Recovery and its Impact (M.E. Sharpe, 2001). He has written commissioned chapters or articles for the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), the Institute for Security and Development Policy (Stockholm) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Geneva). His edited books include Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and the Challenge to America’s Immigration Tradition (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997) and Terrorism and Violence in Southeast Asia: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability (M.E. Sharpe, 2004). He is author of the book The Terrorism Ahead: Confronting Transnational Violence in the 21^st Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2007). Dr. Smith’s op-ed articles have appeared in such outlets as the International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Defense News, Japan Times, World Politics Review, among others. Dr. Smith serves on the international editorial board of the terrorism-focused journal Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. He has delivered lectures on terrorism finance and financial crime to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP); he is a member of the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI). Dr. Smith has lived and studied in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and the United Kingdom and is conversant in Mandarin Chinese. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Washington and Lee University, his Master of Arts from the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) and his JD and PhD degrees from the University of Hawaii, Manoa.