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James R. Holmes, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Strategy & Policy

Phone:: (401) 841-7186
Email:: james.holmes@usnwc.edu

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James Holmes is an associate professor of strategy at the Naval War College, senior fellow at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs, and senior political-military analyst at Energy Security Associates Inc. He served as a research associate at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis while in graduate school. A former US Navy surface warfare officer, he was assigned as military professor at the Naval War College's College of Distance Education and as director of a steam engineering course at the Surface Warfare Officers School Command. On sea duty he served as an engineering and gunnery officer on board the battleship Wisconsin. He is a combat veteran of the first Gulf War.

Jim is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University (B.A., mathematics and German) and earned graduate degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (M.A.L.D. and Ph.D., international relations), Providence College (M.A., mathematics), and Salve Regina University (M.A., international relations). He was the recipient of the Naval War College Foundation Award in 1994, signifying the top graduate in his Naval War College class.

He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei, and the Institute for Defense Studies & Analyses, New Delhi. He has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and spoken at such institutions as the Center for a New American Security, German Marshall Fund, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Clingendael Institute of International Relations (The Hague), Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies (Taipei), American Enterprise Institute, and China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (Beijing). He is slated to lecture at Renmin University, Beijing, in 2012.

His most recent book is Red Star over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy (with Toshi Yoshihara), an Atlantic Monthly Best Book of 2010 and a US Naval Institute Notable Naval Book for 2010. It has been translated into German and Korean and is under contract to be translated and published by the China Social Sciences Press, an arm of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Forthcoming is Nuclear Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age (Georgetown University Press). Jim is the author or co-author of 20 book chapters, over 100 journal articles, and over 300 opinion columns for such outlets as the Providence Journal, Taipei Times, Asia Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald, where he was a staff columnist from 2001-2007.

His work has been quoted or cited in such outlets as NPR, the BBC World Service, El Mercurio (Chile), the Financial Times, Asia Times, Fox News, the China Daily, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, Xinhua, and The Hindu. He is a defense analyst and weekly columnist for The Diplomat, a Real Clear World Top 5 World News Site for 2010 and 2011.

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