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Dr. Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones is Associate Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies at the University of Washington and Co-Director
of the UW's Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies. During
1999-2000 he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars. He has held fellowships from The American Council of Learned Societies, the National Council for Soviet and East European Research and the Ford Foundation. He received a doctoral degree in political science from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Princeton. His teaching and research now focuses mainly on the security relationships among democracies and related issues of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Professor Jones is currently writing a history of the Warsaw Pact. Several chapters have appeared as journal articles include “Soviet Doctrine as Strategic Deception”, Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol. 16, No. 3 September, 2003. and "Reflections on Mirror Images: Politics and Technology in the Arsenals of the Warsaw Pact" in Leslie Eliason and Emily Goldman, eds., The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas (Stanford University Press, 2003). The Journal of Cold War Studies will soon publish a related article entitled “The Adversaries and Allies of Marshal A. Grechko.” Previous books include Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe, and (with Teresa Raknowska Harmstone, co-editor), The Warsaw Pact: The Question of Cohesion, Vols. I, I. III.
He is the author of the introduction (with Natalie Mychajlyszyn) to the Spring, 2002 special issue of Armed Forces and Society. Vol. 28, No. 3. The special issue is entitled, "Civil-Military Relations in Central and Eastern Europe in Former Communist Societies". Other recent publications are "The Logic of NATO Enlargement: De-Nationalization, Democratization, Defense of Human Rights and De-Nuclearization" in Oles Smolensky ed., The Lost Equilibrium: International Relations in the Post-Soviet Era, Lehigh, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2001; "The Case of the Disappearing Army", review article of Dale R. Herspring, Requiem for an Army, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, in Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 21, No. 3, December, 2000, pp. 175-178; "Limits to Europe", International Politics Vol. 37, No. 4, Dec., 2000 (review article of three books on Germany, Russia, Poland and Ukraine), pp.537-546.He is the author of Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe: Political Autonomy and the Warsaw Pact (Praeger, 1981).
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