The Hon. Christopher A. Ford
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Dr. Ford's paper on parallels between European imperialism of yesterday and the Chinese Communist Party's behavior vis-a-vis the Global South today was published in November 2024 by the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP), as number 11 in volume 4 of its Occasional Papers series. You can find it on NIPP's website here , or use the button below to download a PDF.
In November 2024, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a study of intra-war deterrence in a two-nuclear-peer environment called "Project Atom 2024." In it, contributing experts offered their perspectives on a hypothetical wargame scenario that involved near-simultaneous use of nuclear weapons by Russia and China against the United States and its allies in two concurrent theater conflicts. Dr. Ford's contribution to this volume was a chapter entitled "Challenges of Deterrence and Security Upon Nuclear Use," and it appears on pages 19-32 of the volume. You can find the full report on CSIS' website here , or use the button below to download a PDF copy of Dr. Ford's chapter.
Below is the written text upon which Dr. Ford based his oral remarks on November 12, 2024, to the NATO Resilience Summit in Bratislava, Slovakia .
Below are the remarks Dr. Ford delivered in a lecture on October 16, 2024, to a group of students at Purdue University.
Below is the text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks to the dialogue on the U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in Hanoi, Vietnam, on September 12, 2024, sponsored by the Pacific Forum and the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.
Below is the text upon which Dr. Ford based his oral remarks on September 6, 2024, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Forum on Nuclear Strategy sponsored by the University of Southern California’s Institute for Advance Catholic Studies (IACS) and the University of New Mexico, entitled “Disarmament & Deterrence in a Dangerous World.”
Below are the remarks Dr. Ford delivered on August 9, 2024, to an event organized by the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS).
Below appears the text on which Dr. Ford based his comments at a symposium organized on July 23, 2024, on “Emergence of A New ‘Quad’: The Growing Entente Between China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran,” hosted by the National Institute for Public Policy .
Below is the text on which Dr. Ford based his remarks at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory on July 18, 2024.
In June 2024, the Center for Global Security Research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory published a book on Aligning Arms Control with the New Security Environment , to which Dr. Ford contributed a chapter entitled " Dead or Deferred? Nuclear Arms Control in an Age of Revisionism ." You can access the book on CGSR's website here , or use the button below to download a copy of Dr. Ford's essay.
ABOUT DR. FORD
Dr. Ford is Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at at Missouri State University’s Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies, and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is also the founder and Principal of Two Ravens Policy & Strategy LLC, which furthers national security missions by providing support to both U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of Defense customers. From February 2021 through January 2023, Dr. Ford served in various capacities at the MITRE Corporation, most recently as a MITRE Fellow and the founding Director of MITRE’s Center for Strategic Competition. He previously served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, for 15 months also exercising the authorities of the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, and before that as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for WMD and Counterproliferation at the U.S. National Security Council. A Rhodes Scholar with degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale, he has also been U.S. Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation, a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, a staffer on five different U.S. Senate committees, a think tank scholar, and U.S. Navy intelligence officer.