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Tom Lansford

Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Letters University of Southern Mississippi

Tom Lansford is the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Lansford is a member of the governing board of the National Social Science Association, an associate editor for the journal White House Studies and an associate editor for Politics and Ethics Review. He has published articles in journals such as Defense Analysis, The Journal of Conflict Studies, European Security, International Studies, Security Dialogue and Strategic Studies. Dr. Lansford is the author, coauthor, editor or coeditor of 27 books. His books include, most recently, All for One: NATO, Terrorism and the United States (2002), A Bitter Harvest: U.S. Foreign Policy and Afghanistan (2003), Strategic Preemption: US Foreign Policy and the Second War in Iraq (2004), To Protect and Defend: US Homeland Security Policy (2006) and the Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy Since the Cold War (2007). His more recent edited collections include: America’s War on Terror (2003), George W. Bush: A Political and Ethical Assessment at Midterm (2004), Transatlantic Security Dilemmas: Old Europe, New Europe and the US (2005), and Strategic Interests in the Middle East: Opposition or Support for US Foreign Policy (2007). Dr. Lansford is the author of more than one hundred essays, book chapters, and reviews.

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