Biography of Colin S. Gray
Dr. Colin S. Gray is a political scientist with broad interests in defense policy,
strategic theory, and
military history, and a particular interest in the maritime dimensions of these
fields. A dual citizen
of the United States and Great Britain, Gray is Professor of International Politics
and Strategic
Studies and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of
Reading, England.
After earning his Ph.D. from Oxford, Gray has taught at the Universities of Reading,
Hull, Lancaster,
York, and British Columbia. He has served as Executive Secretary of the Strategic
Studies
Commission at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (Toronto), Assistant
Director of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and Director of National
Security Studies at
the Hudson Institute (New York). He was the Founding Chairman and currently serves
as Senior
Fellow at the National Institute for Public Policy in Fairfax, Virginia.
Gray is a member of the editorial boards of Orbis, Comparative
Strategy, Journal of Strategic
Studies, Stratégique, and Naval War College Review.
He has served on advisory panels for the
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (SDI and space weapons), the Department
of the
Army (tactical nuclear weapons), the Department of the Air Force (innovations),
and U.S. Space
Command (future of space forces). He maintains close links with the U.S. Department
of Defense
and armed services and frequently works with them in an advisory capacity.
Among his several prestigious honors, Gray was the recipient of the U.S. Navy’s
Superior Public
Service Award in 1987, and he has received public commendations from the U.S.
Strategic Air
Command and the U.S. Air Force for his contributions to strategy. Ronald Reagan
also appointed
Gray to a five-year term on the President’s General Advisory Committee
on Arms Control and
Disarmament in the 1980s.
Gray is the author of numerous books, including: The Soviet-American Arms
Race (1976); Strategic
Studies and Public Policy: The American Experience (1982); American
Military Space Policy
(1983); Nuclear Strategy and National Style (1986); The Geopolitics
of Super Power (1988); War,
Peace, and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century (1990);
The Leverage of Sea Power
(1992); The Navy in the Post-Cold War World (1994); Explorations
in Strategy (1996); Modern
Strategy (1999); The Second Nuclear Age (1999); and Strategy
for Chaos: Revolutions in Military
Affairs and the Evidence of History (2002).
Gray’s articles have been published in such journals as Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Policy, Survival,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Wilson Quarterly, Washington
Quarterly, The National Interest,
and International Security. He has lectured widely on defense and foreign
affairs subjects in Europe,
North America, China, Israel, and Australia.
The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order
Colin S. Gray
Publication Date: April 16, 2004 $29.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8131-2315-1
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