ZACHARY SELDEN Department of Political Science University of Florida zselden@ufl.edu PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Florida 2008-2011 Deputy Secretary General for Policy NATO Parliamentary Assembly Brussels, Belgium (on leave from the University of Florida) 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Associate Director for External Affairs, Bob Graham Center for Public Service University of Florida 2003-2007 Director, Defence and Security Committee NATO Parliamentary Assembly Brussels, Belgium 2000-2003 International Affairs Analyst Congressional Budget Office (CBO) National Security Division Washington, D.C. 1998-2000 Research Director for Emerging Threats Business Executives for National Security (BENS) Washington, D.C.. 1996-1998 Policy Associate for Nonproliferation Business Executives for National Security (BENS) Washington, D.C. 1991-1995 Teaching Assistant/Teaching Fellow Department of Political Science
EDUCATION 1995 Ph.D. Political Science 1990 M.A. Latin American Studies 1988 B.A. Political Science PUBLICATIONS Books Selden, Zachary. Economic Sanctions as Instruments of American Foreign Policy. Praeger Publishers, 1999. David, Charles-Philippe, Nancy Carrol and Zachary Selden. Foreign Policy Failure in the White House: Reappraising the Fall of the Shah and the Iran-Contra Affair. University Press of America, 1993. Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals Selden, Zachary. Balancing Against or Balancing With? The Spectrum of Alignment and the Endurance of American Hegemony, Security Studies (forthcoming). Selden, Zachary. The European Debt Crisis: Implications for American Security Policy, Parameters, Vol. XLII, No.1 (Spring 2012) pp. 17-26 Selden, Zachary. Are Economic Sanctions Still a Valid Option? Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 2010): 91-98. Selden, Zachary. Power is Always in Fashion: State-Centric Realism and the Development of the European Security and Defence Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2010): 393-412. Selden, Zachary. Stabilization and Democratization: A Basis for a Renewed Transatlantic Alliance, Parameters, Vol. XXXVII, No.4 (Winter 2007/08): 85-98. Selden, Zachary. Neoconservatives and the American Mainstream, Policy Review, No.124 (April/May 2004): 29-39. Selden, Zachary and John Lis. NATO s New Allies: Net Gain or Drain on the Alliance? Problems of Post-Communism, Vol.49, No.4 (July/August 2002): 3-11.
Jehn, Chris and Zachary Selden. The End of Conscription in Europe? Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol.20, No.2 (April 2002): 93-100. Selden, Zachary. Microchips and the Millennium: The National Security Implications of the Year 2000 Problem, National Security Studies Quarterly, Vol. IV, No.3, (Summer 1998): 71-78. Works in Progress Identity and Interests in the Indo-US Security Relationship Articles in Non-Peer Reviewed Journals Nuclear Strategy in NATO s New Strategic Concept: What Implications for the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Regime? World Politics Review, October, 2010 (Co-authored). Obama and the Transatlantic Relationship: Promise and Potential Pitfalls, La Lettre de Information de le Chair Daundurand de le Universite de Quebec a Montreal, April 2009. Biological Weapons: Separating Fear from Reality, Blueprint: the Journal of the Democratic Leadership Council, Winter 2000. Partnership or Alliance? The Future of Private-Public Cooperation on Information Security, imp: The Magazine on Information Impacts, September 1999. Sanctions: Don t Love Them or Hate Them, Make Them Work, UN Chronicle, No.2, 1999. Ready or Not: The Y2K Problem, Armed Forces Journal International, June 1999. (coauthored) Economic Sanctions: Finding a Third Way without Stepping on the Third Rail, The New Democrat, Vol. 10, no.5, November 1998. Book Reviews America s Global Advantage: US Hegemony and International Cooperation by Carla Norrlof. Journal of Politics Vol. 73 Issue 2 (April 2011), p620 A Stability Seeking Power: US Foreign Policy and Seccessionist Conflicts by Jonathan Paquin. Political Studies Quarterly, Vol. 126, No.2 (Summer 2011), p. 360-362. The State of the European Union by Anand Menon. European Union Studies Association Review, Winter 2010. 3
Other Publications NATO Burdensharing after Enlargement, Congressional Budget Office. August 2001. Integrating New Allies into NATO, Congressional Budget Office. October 2000. Defense in Depth Against Biological Terrorism, Business Executives for National Security Special Report. November, 1998. Confronting the Threat of Biological Weapons: A Comprehensive Strategy is Needed Now, Progressive Policy Institute, March 1998. Biological Weapons: Defense Improves, but the Threat Remains, Business Executives for National Security Special Report. December, 1997. Nunn-Lugar: New Solutions for Today s Nuclear Threats, Business Executives for National Security Special Report. September, 1997. Assessing the Biological Weapons Threat, Business Executives for National Security Special Report. February, 1997. Information Security: The Implications of Cyberwar for National Security and Business, Business Executives for National Security Special Report. November, 1996. INVITED PRESENTATIONS Prospects for Improved EU-NATO Asset Sharing, The European Security Contact Group at the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, April 2010. NATO s New Strategic Concept. The Geneva Center for Security Policy, Brussels, Belgium February 2010. The Effects of the War in Afghanistan on the Transatlantic Alliance, Institute for the Study of American Foreign Policy, Washington DC, July 2009. The Future of NATO in Europe and Globally, Ditchley Park Foundation, United Kingdom, October 2008. American Foreign Policy and the 2008 Presidential Election, Center for the Study of the United States, University of Quebec at Montreal, November 2007. 4
NATO s Role in Counter-terrorism Operations. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Brussels, Belgium, December 2005. The Impact of Defense Transformation on the Transatlantic Relationship. Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2004. NATO and Future Military Capabilities: Grounds for Optimism? Wilton Park Conference Centre, United Kingdom, February 2004 The Future of the Transatlantic Alliance after Expansion. Center for European Studies, University of Florida, November 2003. NATO and the Global War on Terrorism. US Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research, October 2003. Changing Patterns of Military Conscription in Europe. German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Center, Brussels, September 2003. The Transatlantic Alliance after Iraq. New Defense Agenda, Brussels, May 2003. The Future of NATO. Council for Emerging National Security Affairs, Washington DC, July 2002 Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Stanford Research Institute, March 1999. Organizing to Combat Transnational Threats. American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, Washington DC, November 1998. Combating Chemical and Biological Terrorism. World Affairs Council of Boston, October, 1998. Assessing the Biological Weapons Threat. World Affairs Council of Northern California, April 1998. Improving Domestic Defense Against Biological Weapons. Defense Working Group of the Progressive Policy Institute, Washington DC, April, 1998. PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS The European Debt Crisis and its Effects on the Transatlantic Security Relationship, presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2012. 5
Matching Ambitions to Resources: Paying for the Common Foreign and Security Policy in an Era of Fiscal Restraint, presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2011. Soft Bandwagoning with the United States: Implications for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, presented at the European Union Studies Association biennial meeting, March 2011. Soft Bandwagoning and the Endurance of American Hegemony, Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2010. State-Centric Realism and the Development of the European Security and Defence Policy, Presented at the European Union Studies Association Biennial Meeting 2007. Economic Sanctions in American Foreign Policy, Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1995. Re-evaluating the Iran-Contra Affair: Cognitive Psychology and American Foreign Policy, Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1994. Cognitive Psychology and American Foreign Policy: the NSC and the Fall of the Shah, Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1992. SERVICE TO THE FIELD Peer Reviewer (Journals) African Security Review (2012) Journal of Common Market Studies (2011) Journal of European Public Policy (2011) European Journal of International Relations (2010) International Studies Quarterly (2009) Peer Reviewer (Publishers) Pearson Publishers (2011) Oxford University Press (2011 and 2012) MIT Press (2006) SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY Faculty Advisor for undergraduate student club, Gators in National Security. Presented research on the European debt crisis to the Political Science Department Development Board, October, 2011. 6
Outside member of dissertation committee for Brian Lynch (Economics). Applied for Smith-Richardson Foundation Strategy and Policy Fellows Program (2012) Applied for Humanities Scholarship Enhancement grant (2012) Selected as Academic Fellow by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (2012) 7