David P. Houghton

David Patrick Houghton (born November 21, 1966) is a British American Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College.^[1]

Education and Early Career

Houghton was born and raised in St. Helens and Warrington in the northwest of England. He received a B.A with Honours in Politics from the University of Sheffield in 1989. He also received an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992, and a Ph.D. from the same school in 1996 with a thesis on "The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Foreign and Domestic Policy Contexts".

He was then a Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex from 1997 to 2003. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University, during a period of research leave from Essex. He taught at the University of Central Florida between 2003 and 2013. He was a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London from 2013 to 2016.

Career

Houghton's areas of expertise are political psychology, foreign policy decision-making, American foreign policy and US-Iranian relations. In addition to five books, he has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles. One of his books, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis, was a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has also done media interviews on the Iran hostage crisis and other topics with The New York Times,^[2] Sky News, National Public Radio, WOFL (Fox 35 Orlando) and other outlets He is also a writer for Project Syndicate.

Bibliography

Books

• A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy: Tragic Choices and the Limits of Rationality (Citizen Guides to Politics and Public Affairs) New York and London: Routledge, 2013.^[3]
• The Decision Point: Six Case Studies in U.S. Foreign Policy Decision-Making New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.^[4]
• Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases (New York and London: Routledge, 2009).
• Controversies in American Politics and Society with David McKay and Andrew Wroe. New York and Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002
• U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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