Biography - Darrell W Driver

Instructor
Security and Global Studies

Darrell Driver joins American Public University System as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow with the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University. His research is in the area of US Security Policy in Europe. Prior positions have included the Director of Strategy and Assistant Professor of Security Studies for the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany, where he taught courses and lectured in the areas of National Security Strategy, Scenario Planning, and Economic Development in Post-Conflict Stabilization; the Deputy Director of Economics, Governance, and Civil-Military Operations in Multi-National Division North, Iraq; and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Military Academy, teaching courses in American Politics, Political Thought, and Public Policy.

Dr. Driver’s publications include Sparta in Babylon Case Studies in the Public Philosophy of Soldiers and Civilians (VDM Press), a book that examines the role of ideology in the contemporary American civil-military relationship, and he has also published articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the military profession to post-secondary Political Science instruction.

He holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana (1994) and an MA (2002) and PhD (2006) in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.