Dr. Dan Caldwell is a distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University and a member of the International Studies Association and the Council on Foreign Relations, where he chairs the Academic Outreach Initiative. He previously served for three years on active duty as an Officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He has a particular interest in American foreign policy, arms control, international security, and Russian-American relations.
Dr. Dan Caldwell is a distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University and a member of the International Studies Association and the Council on Foreign Relations, where he chairs the Academic Outreach Initiative.
Dr. Caldwell served for three years on active duty as an Officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve and during that time held positions at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and in the Executive Office of the President in Washington, D.C. He currently serves as chairperson of the Committee on Student Veterans at Pepperdine University.
Among the awards that Dr. Caldwell has received are Professor of the Year at Pepperdine University, the Charles and Harriet Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, the Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs at Harvard University, a NATO Research Fellowship, and a United States Institute of Peace Fellowship.
He has a particular interest in American foreign policy, arms control, international security, and Russian-American relations.
Dr. Caldwell is the author of more than sixty articles, the editor or co-editor of five books, and the author of five books: Vortex of Conflict: U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, the third edition of Seeking Security in an Insecure World (co-authored with Robert E. Williams), World Politics and You, The Dynamics of Domestic Politics and Arms Control: The SALT II Treaty Ratification Debate, and American-Soviet Relations: From 1947 to the Nixon-Kissinger Grand Design.
Dr. Caldwell earned A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.