Stafford Thomas
Phone - 898-5738 Email
STHOMAS@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
Office - Butte Hall Room 723
COURSES FOR FALL / SPRING 1998
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POLS
055 American Government National/State/Local
POLS
144 U.S. Foreign Policy
POLS
221A Introduction to Political Inquiry
POLS
241 International Politics - Theory and Concepts
POLS
275 National Stratigic Intellegence
POLS
383 Practicum in Teaching Political Science
EDUCATION
University of Colorado, Ph.D., 1975, Political
Science Georgia State University,
M.A., 197 1, Political Science
Whittier College, B.A., 1962, Political
Science and History
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Political Science and International
Relations, California State University, Chico, 1990-present.
Coordinator, International Relations Major,
California State University, Chico, 1986-1992, 1995- present.
Advisor, International Relations Major,
California State University, Chico, 1986-present.
Coordinator, European Studies Minor, California
State University, Chico, 1986-present.
Associate Professor, Political Science
and International Relations, California State University, Chico, 1986-present.
PUBLISHED WORKS
"A Political Theory of the CIA,"
International
Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Spring, 1998.
Eight solicited entries in The Historical
Dictionary of the 1960s (Greenwood Press)
"The Contemporary European System," submitted
to The Texas Journal of Political Issues
"Presidential Styles and DCI Selection,"
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Summer,
1994.
"National Strategic Intelligence and the
Clinton Administration," Discussion Paper Series, February 1994,
Discussion Paper No. 94-2 (College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, California
State University).
"Assessing MEP Influence on British EC
Policy," Government and Opposition (Vol. 27, No. 1, Winter 1992),
pp 3-22. Lead article (of particular prominence in this journal). Requested
to submit an abstract to International Political Science Abstracts.
"Intelligence and the American Political
System," Controlling Intelligence (London: Frank Cass, Ltd., 1991).
Work cited in article in Foreign Intelligence
Literary Scene, Vol. 10, No. 5, 1991
Script Advisor, "Secret Intelligence,"
KCET
(Public Broadcasting Station, Los Angeles, 1988-1989).
BOOK REVIEWS
"International Terrorism and American
National Security," Texas Journal of Political Studies, Spring,
1997.
Johnson, Loch. Secret Agencies:
U.S.
Intelligence in a Hostile World. Perspectives on Political Science,
Spring, 1997.
Godson, Roy, et. al. (eds.). U.S. Intelligence
at the Crossroads: Agendas for Reform. Perspectives on Political Science,
Summer, 1996.
Solicited pre-publication review of International
Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy, Identity
(Prentice
Hall, February, 1996).
Re-solicited pre-publication review of
Coping with International Conflict (Prentice HO, January, 1996).
Bar-Joseph, Uri. Intelligence Intervention
in the Politics of Democratic States: The United States, Israel, and Britain.
Perspectives on Political Science, Winter, 1996.
Solicited pre-publication review of Coping
with International Conflict (Prentice Hall, April, 1995).
Solicited prepublication review of Political
Geogrqphy of Countries and Concepts (Prentice Hall, April, 1993).
Solicited prepublication review of European
Politics (Prentice Hall, March, 1993).
Solicited prepublication review of Primacy,
Partnership and Power: American Foreign Policy in the New World Order
(Prentice Hall, February, 1993).
Solicited prepublication review of K.
J. Holsti's Intemational Politics: A Framework of Analysis (8th edition;
Prentice HA, January, 1993).
Shoemaker, Christopher C. The NSC Staff:
Counseling the Council. Perspectives, Spring, 1992, pp. 105-106.
Solicited prepublication review of America
in the World: A Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy (2nd edition; Prentice
Hall, 1992).
Cimbala, Stephen J. Uncertainty and
Control: Future Soviet and American Strategy and Stoll, Richard J.
U.S. National Security Policy and the Soviet Union: Persistent Regularities
and Extreme Contingencies. Journal of Politics, November, 1991,
pp. 1217-1221.
Shafer, D. Michael. Deadly Paradigms:
The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy. Journal of Politics,
May 1991.
Corvo, Max. The O.S.S. in Italy, 1942-1945:
A Personal Memoir, Perspectives, Spring, 1990, pp. 166-167.
Richelson, Jeffrey. American Espionage
and the Soviet Target, Perspectives, Fall, 1989.
John Patrick Quirk, Readings on the
Intelligence Community, Perspectives, FaN, 1989.
PAPERS
"Porcupines and Scorpions: The Irony of
Deterrence," Western Political Science Association convention, 1996.
"Contemporary European International Relations,"
Pacific Northwest Political Science Association convention, 1995.
"Intelligence Reform Under the Clinton
Administration," Western Political Science Association convention, 1995.
"British, French, and German Perspectives
of the Clinton Administration's Foreign Policy," Western Political Science
Association convention, 1994.
"Presidential Policymaking Style and DCI
Selection," International Studies Association, 1993.
"Intelligence in the 1990s: Problems and
Prospects," Western Political Science Association convention, 1993.
"Assessing NMP Influence on British EC
Policy," International Studies Association, 1992.
"U.S.-Soviet Security Dynamics in a Changing
World: The Western European Nexus," Western Political Science Association
convention, 1990.
"National Strategic Intelligence and the
American Political System," Pacific Northwest Political Science Association
convention, 1989.
