Adjunct Lecturer of European Studies
European and Eurasian Studies
Chris Chivvis is associate director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Chivvis specializes in national security issues in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, including NATO, military interventions, counter-terrorism, and deterrence. Chivvis is the author three scholarly books, including Toppling Qaddafi, The French War on Al Qa’ida in Africa, as well as several other academic and policy works. He served in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2010-2011, has worked in several U.S. and European think tanks and academic institutions. He received his PhD from SAIS in 2003.