Russell Crandall

Russell Crandall is the Principal Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Dr. Crandall is on leave from Davidson College where he is an associate professor of politics. At Davidson, Crandall has held the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur professorship and received the college’s two student-granted outstanding teaching awards. He teaches courses on American foreign policy, Latin American politics, international political economy, global insurgencies, and other topics.
 
In 2004-2005, through the Council on Foreign Relations’ International Affairs Fellowship, Crandall served as the director for Western Hemisphere Initiatives at the National Security Council and as special assistant for counter-terrorism at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-5). From 2002-2004, he served as an advisor for Latin American security to the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. He has also worked as a human rights official with Catholic Relief Services in Colombia (1997-98) and has been a consultant for the World Bank, Andean Development Bank, and United Nations. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

To learn more about Russell Crandall, visit http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x36004.xml

 

Published work

Guerrilla Warfare and the American Experience (Cambridge, Forthcoming),  The United States and Latin America After the Cold War (Cambridge, September 2008); Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2006); The Andes in Focus (Lynne Rienner, 2005); Mexico’s Democracy at Work (Lynne Rienner, 2004); Driven by Drugs: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia (Lynne Rienner, Second Edition 2008, First Edition 2002)