Graeme Auton

Professor
Department of Political Science

Graeme Auton

Areas of Expertise

  • International security and national intelligence
  • International political economy
  • International politics of Northeast Asia
  • International politics of Europe
  • Russia

Education

Ph.D. 1976 University of California, Santa Barbara

M.A. 1971 University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A. 1969 University of California, Santa Barbara

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Contact

Hall of Letters
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P: 909.748.8595
E: graeme_auton@redlands.edu

Background

Dr. Graeme Auton has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Redlands since 1987. Dr. Auton has been a NATO Research Fellow and a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow in European Society and Western Security at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. In the early 1990s he took leave from the University to work with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Washington, Brussels and Vienna, where he focused on nonproliferation and European security issues. Since then he has traveled to the Russian Far East with a Fulbright-Hays Grant, and in 2007 was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea. 

Earlier in his career, Dr. Auton was coauthor of The Foreign Policies of West Germany, France and Britain and editor of Arms Control and European Security. He has a long list of articles to his credit, including one on the contagiousness of regional conflict in the Middle East (Columbia University's Journal of International Affairs, Summer 2016). He was a keynote speaker at the fall 2018 conference of the International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences (IISES) in Lisbon, Portugal. 

Degrees held

Ph.D. 1976 University of California, Santa Barbara

M.A. 1971 University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A. 1969 University of California, Santa Barbara

Experience

  • Previous teaching experience
  • Occidental College (1975-76)
  • Lawrence University of Wisconsin (1976-77)
  • Whitman College (1977-87)
  • Graduate Program in Public Policy, Pepperdine University, part-time (2002-03)
  • Graduate Institute for Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul (2007)

 

  • Professional experience
  • Postdoctoral work: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
  • Foreign Affairs Specialist (European Security Negotiations), Bureau of Multilateral Affairs, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C. (1992-93)
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Courses Offered

  • Introduction to World Politics

  • International Relations Theory

  • Russian Foreign Policy

  • Issues in American Foreign Policy

  • International Politics of Northeast Asia

  • Politics of Japan and the Two Koreas

  • International Law

Publications

  • Book, "Foreign Policies of West Germany, France, and Britain" (Prentice- Hall, 1980)

  • Book, editor, "Arms Control and European Security" (Praeger Press, 1989)

  • Numerous articles on European and Northeast Asian security, Russian energy Policy, etc. between 1976 and 2008 – published in the U.S., U.K. and South Korea

  • Numerous panel and conference presentations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, 1975-2009

Awards, Honors, Grants

  • NATO Research Fellowship, 1978-79

  • NEH Summer Research Grant, University of Washington, 1984

  • Ford Postdoctoral Fellow in European Society and Western Security, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1984-85

  • Burlington Northern Distinguished Teaching Award, Whitman College, 1986

  • William C. Foster Fellow, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1992-93

  • Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Research Grant, Russian Far East, 2006

  • Senior Fulbright Scholar, Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, 2007

Profesional Affiliations

  • Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), Seoul, South Korea

  • Northeast Asia Office, International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives

  • (ICLEI), Jeju City, South Korea – Board Member Institute for Analysis (IFA), Fort Meade, Maryland

  • Graduate National Security Studies Program, California State University