Dr. James R. Holmes
Associate Professor, Strategic Research Department, Naval War College
James Holmes is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned graduate degrees at Salve Regina University, Providence College, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 2003. He graduated from the Naval War College with highest distinction in 1994 and was the recipient of the Naval War College Foundation Award, signifying the top graduate in his class. Before joining the Naval War College faculty in the spring of 2007, he was a senior research associate at the University of Georgia Center for International Trade and Security, Athens, GA; a research associate at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, MA; and a U.S. Navy surface warfare officer, serving in the engineering and weapons departments on board the battleship Wisconsin, directing an engineering course at the Surface Warfare Officers School Command, and teaching Strategy and Policy at the Naval War College, College of Distance Education. He is the author of Theodore Roosevelt and World Order: Police Power in International Relations, co-author of the forthcoming Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan, and co-editor of the forthcoming Asia Looks Seaward: Power and Maritime Strategy.