Matthew Crosston
Biographic Data
| ID | 4493597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Crosston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Crosston |
| SIGNATURE | CROSSTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bellevue University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Transformation of Russia’s Regional Elites: A System-Dynamics Model with Counterfactual Scenarios 1985-2019
The system-dynamic model elaborates processes for recruiting political elites across Russia’s regions from 1985 to 2019. The authors consider several counterfactual scenarios through computational simulations. The first series includes the radical disintegration of Soviet recruitment mechanisms. The second series elaborates the opposite scenario: the gradual evolution/preservation of Soviet continuity. The third series simulates a unique situatio…
Petticoat Promise: Gender and the CIA in the #MeToo Era
How do you make a gentleman out of a boor overnight? —Richard Helms, deputy director of Plans, CIA (1953) The surprise nomination by President Trump of Gina Haspel, a 33-year veteran of the Cent
Power Populism
In traditional understandings of classical populism, power is commonly defined as being in need of devolving from the corridors of power and out to a more grassroots foundation. At its core, populism was usually seen as a belief in empowering regular people. 'Regular people' were typically defined as being disconnected, if not outright disenfranchised, from central power and outside the realm of the 'elite.' This paper investigates the modern phe…
The Year of Demythologizing Stalin
This thoroughly researched and fascinating new book from Professor Kathleen Smith of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service offers a closer look at events in the momentous year 1956. D
Diffusion and policy transfer in armed UAV proliferation: The cases of Italy and Germany
In a 2015 policy change, the U.S. State Department released guidelines governing the sale of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to other countries, and several export agreements were signed shortly later. While considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to the impact or consequences of UAV proliferation, few studies have analyzed the actual diffusion process. This article applies the insights from both diffusion theory and policy transfer …
Shadow Separatism: Implications for Democratic Consolidation
Fragile Friendships: Partnerships Between the Academy and Intelligence
“We need to understand, when universities accept grants from the National Intelligence Directorate, the consequence may be one or more of its students, having been taught they are doing good, are p
Demonizing Moscow
Bringing Non-Western Cultures and Conditions into Comparative Intelligence Perspectives: India, Russia, and China
Comparative analyses of non-Western intelligence communities have been relatively few. Those that exist have tended to involve the United States as a baseline for comparison. In fact, Intelligence
Soft Spying: Leveraging Globalization as Proxy Military Rivalry
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMatthew CrosstonDr. Matthew Crosston is Professor of Political Science, Miller Chair for Industrial and International Security, and Director of the International Security and Intelligence Studies Program at Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska. A graduate of Colgate University, with an M.A. from the University of London, and a Ph.D. from Brown University, he has done post-doctoral work at the Universi…
Terra Incognita: Mapping American Intelligence Education Curriculum
For more than two decades, degree-granting intelligence programs have popped up around the U.S., representing the largest and perhaps most enduring investment in American intelligence education. Scholars have addressed issues in American intelligence education, but to date, there has been no focused study that has mapped and analyzed these programs. This article addresses this gap by answering the questions: What are the American intelligence pro…
Cultures, Conditions, and Cognitive Closure: Breaking Intelligence Studies’ Dependence on Security Studies
This paper is about how the conceptualization of ‘culture’ in intelligence studies has taken on too powerful a role, one that has become too restrictive in its impact on thinking about other intelligence communities, especially non-Western ones. This restriction brings about unintentional cognitive closure that damages intelligence analysis. The argument leans heavily in many ways on the fine work of Desch and Johnston in the discipline of Securi…
Pandora’s Presumption: Drones and the Problematic Ethics of Techno-War
Present American policy proclaims the compatibility of drone usage with the traditional Rules of Engagement and the Laws of War. Largely absent in this is an examination of how enemy combatants are being defined on both sides of drone activity: not just the targets and operators but also the relevance of drone technology proliferation. This work engages the void to reveal inconsistent and contradictory ethical standards in American drone policy, …
Future Challenges in Drone Geopolitics
Occam's Follies: Real and Imagined Biases Facing Intelligence Studies
More than a decade removed from 9/11 many across the academic and intelligence communities profess the importance for greater collaboration and cooperation. This mutual diffusion of knowledge, methods, and research would ideally produce both a stronger Intelligence Studies discipline and new talented cadres for both communities. The emphasis is not just logical because of the continued relevance of traditional threats, but is also common sense wh…
The Pluto of International Organizations: Micro-Agendas, IO Theory, and Dismissing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
This article investigates the peculiarities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Unlike many more famous international organizations (IOs), the SCO is dominated by micro-agendas that seem to run counter to most of the theoretical literature applicable to IOs. This analysis examines these internal machinations and divergent interests through the theoretical lens, breathing new relevance into the institutional skepticism of Mearsheimer. …
Neoconservative democratization in theory and practice: Developing democrats or raising radical Islamists
Compromising coalitions and duplicitous diplomacy: US support for Tajikistan after 9/11 and its security implications
This article investigates the development of democracy in Tajikistan and analyzes what has earned it the most international acclaim: its secular-Islamic governing coalition. The investigation reveals a compromised and illegitimate coalition that, with American collusion in local regime repression, poses great dangers to international security. The article argues that government repression, leading to increasing radicalization, combines with forei…
Building New Democrats or New Bin Ladens? The US Illusion of Spreading Democracy and Fighting Terrorism
The United States proclaims two major foreign policy objectives: to fight terrorism wherever it is found and to spread democracy wherever it can be promulgated. It is steadfastly believed that these two priorities can be achieved simultaneously and do not collide. This article explains how these two objectives, as presently pursued by the US, will in fact inevitably collide. The Central Asian region is used as empirical evidence. This collision n…
Fostering Fundamentalism: Terrorism, Democracy and American Engagement in Central Asia
Is the United States, in its fight against terror and pursuit of Osama Bin Laden, recklessly creating conditions in Central Asia to produce the next Bin Laden? Matthew Crosston studies this controversial argument in his political analysis of US foreign policy on Central Asia. He looks specifically at the 'no-man's land nexus' connecting Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and the heart of Central Asian Islamic radicalism - the Fergana Valley. T…
Diffusion and policy transfer in armed UAV proliferation: The cases of Italy and Germany
In a 2015 policy change, the U.S. State Department released guidelines governing the sale of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to other countries, and several export agreements were signed shortly later. While considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to the impact or consequences of UAV proliferation, few studies have analyzed the actual diffusion process. This article applies the insights from both diffusion theory and policy transfer …
Occam's Follies: Real and Imagined Biases Facing Intelligence Studies
More than a decade removed from 9/11 many across the academic and intelligence communities profess the importance for greater collaboration and cooperation. This mutual diffusion of knowledge, methods, and research would ideally produce both a stronger Intelligence Studies discipline and new talented cadres for both communities. The emphasis is not just logical because of the continued relevance of traditional threats, but is also common sense wh…
Fostering Fundamentalism: Terrorism, Democracy and American Engagement in Central Asia
Is the United States, in its fight against terror and pursuit of Osama Bin Laden, recklessly creating conditions in Central Asia to produce the next Bin Laden? Matthew Crosston studies this controversial argument in his political analysis of US foreign policy on Central Asia. He looks specifically at the 'no-man's land nexus' connecting Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and the heart of Central Asian Islamic radicalism - the Fergana Valley. T…
Building New Democrats or New Bin Ladens? The US Illusion of Spreading Democracy and Fighting Terrorism
The United States proclaims two major foreign policy objectives: to fight terrorism wherever it is found and to spread democracy wherever it can be promulgated. It is steadfastly believed that these two priorities can be achieved simultaneously and do not collide. This article explains how these two objectives, as presently pursued by the US, will in fact inevitably collide. The Central Asian region is used as empirical evidence. This collision n…
Compromising coalitions and duplicitous diplomacy: US support for Tajikistan after 9/11 and its security implications
This article investigates the development of democracy in Tajikistan and analyzes what has earned it the most international acclaim: its secular-Islamic governing coalition. The investigation reveals a compromised and illegitimate coalition that, with American collusion in local regime repression, poses great dangers to international security. The article argues that government repression, leading to increasing radicalization, combines with forei…
Neoconservative democratization in theory and practice: Developing democrats or raising radical Islamists
Occam's Follies: Real and Imagined Biases Facing Intelligence Studies
More than a decade removed from 9/11 many across the academic and intelligence communities profess the importance for greater collaboration and cooperation. This mutual diffusion of knowledge, methods, and research would ideally produce both a stronger Intelligence Studies discipline and new talented cadres for both communities. The emphasis is not just logical because of the continued relevance of traditional threats, but is also common sense wh…
The Pluto of International Organizations: Micro-Agendas, IO Theory, and Dismissing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
This article investigates the peculiarities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Unlike many more famous international organizations (IOs), the SCO is dominated by micro-agendas that seem to run counter to most of the theoretical literature applicable to IOs. This analysis examines these internal machinations and divergent interests through the theoretical lens, breathing new relevance into the institutional skepticism of Mearsheimer. …
Pandora’s Presumption: Drones and the Problematic Ethics of Techno-War
Present American policy proclaims the compatibility of drone usage with the traditional Rules of Engagement and the Laws of War. Largely absent in this is an examination of how enemy combatants are being defined on both sides of drone activity: not just the targets and operators but also the relevance of drone technology proliferation. This work engages the void to reveal inconsistent and contradictory ethical standards in American drone policy, …
Future Challenges in Drone Geopolitics
Soft Spying: Leveraging Globalization as Proxy Military Rivalry
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMatthew CrosstonDr. Matthew Crosston is Professor of Political Science, Miller Chair for Industrial and International Security, and Director of the International Security and Intelligence Studies Program at Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska. A graduate of Colgate University, with an M.A. from the University of London, and a Ph.D. from Brown University, he has done post-doctoral work at the Universi…
Terra Incognita: Mapping American Intelligence Education Curriculum
For more than two decades, degree-granting intelligence programs have popped up around the U.S., representing the largest and perhaps most enduring investment in American intelligence education. Scholars have addressed issues in American intelligence education, but to date, there has been no focused study that has mapped and analyzed these programs. This article addresses this gap by answering the questions: What are the American intelligence pro…
Cultures, Conditions, and Cognitive Closure: Breaking Intelligence Studies’ Dependence on Security Studies
This paper is about how the conceptualization of ‘culture’ in intelligence studies has taken on too powerful a role, one that has become too restrictive in its impact on thinking about other intelligence communities, especially non-Western ones. This restriction brings about unintentional cognitive closure that damages intelligence analysis. The argument leans heavily in many ways on the fine work of Desch and Johnston in the discipline of Securi…
Bringing Non-Western Cultures and Conditions into Comparative Intelligence Perspectives: India, Russia, and China
Comparative analyses of non-Western intelligence communities have been relatively few. Those that exist have tended to involve the United States as a baseline for comparison. In fact, Intelligence
Demonizing Moscow
Fragile Friendships: Partnerships Between the Academy and Intelligence
“We need to understand, when universities accept grants from the National Intelligence Directorate, the consequence may be one or more of its students, having been taught they are doing good, are p
The Year of Demythologizing Stalin
This thoroughly researched and fascinating new book from Professor Kathleen Smith of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service offers a closer look at events in the momentous year 1956. D
Diffusion and policy transfer in armed UAV proliferation: The cases of Italy and Germany
In a 2015 policy change, the U.S. State Department released guidelines governing the sale of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to other countries, and several export agreements were signed shortly later. While considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to the impact or consequences of UAV proliferation, few studies have analyzed the actual diffusion process. This article applies the insights from both diffusion theory and policy transfer …
Shadow Separatism: Implications for Democratic Consolidation
Petticoat Promise: Gender and the CIA in the #MeToo Era
How do you make a gentleman out of a boor overnight? —Richard Helms, deputy director of Plans, CIA (1953) The surprise nomination by President Trump of Gina Haspel, a 33-year veteran of the Cent
Power Populism
In traditional understandings of classical populism, power is commonly defined as being in need of devolving from the corridors of power and out to a more grassroots foundation. At its core, populism was usually seen as a belief in empowering regular people. 'Regular people' were typically defined as being disconnected, if not outright disenfranchised, from central power and outside the realm of the 'elite.' This paper investigates the modern phe…
The Transformation of Russia’s Regional Elites: A System-Dynamics Model with Counterfactual Scenarios 1985-2019
The system-dynamic model elaborates processes for recruiting political elites across Russia’s regions from 1985 to 2019. The authors consider several counterfactual scenarios through computational simulations. The first series includes the radical disintegration of Soviet recruitment mechanisms. The second series elaborates the opposite scenario: the gradual evolution/preservation of Soviet continuity. The third series simulates a unique situatio…
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