Christopher Darnton
Associate Professor
Department of National Security Affairs
Naval Postgraduate School
United States of America
Biography
Christopher Darnton is an Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His work focuses on the domestic politics of foreign policy, particularly related to enduring rivalries and conflict resolution, counterterrorism cooperation and alliance management, regional integration, and state-building. A Latin Americanist, his research and teaching emphasize the international politics of the Americas, with particular interest in what new archival evidence reveals about the Cold War era and beyond.
Research Interest
Current projects include articles on US-Cuban rapprochement failures, Latin American agency in the Alliance for Progress, and the use and misuse of archival documents in political science, as well as a book on the sectional politics of war and state formation in the Americas.
