Scott Silverstone is professor of international relations at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, and is currently serving as the deputy department head.
His areas of expertise include international relations theory, international security, and American foreign policy, particularly how it gets shaped by the domestic political debate.
Before beginning graduate school in 1993, Silverstone was a U.S. naval officer. He flew for the Navy from 1986 to 1990, and from 1990 to 1993 served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon as a crisis management officer. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.
Featured Work
FEB 26, 2019 • Podcast
The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War, with Scott A. Silverstone
Does preventive war really work? "In the vast majority of cases historically, what we see is the country that thought it was saving itself from ...
MAR 28, 2005 • Article
The Ethical Limits to Preventive War
The purpose of this research is to examine if there is in fact a general democratic anti-preventive war norm, to what extent this norm might ...
AUG 19, 2003 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Response to "A New Turn in the New War"
As Rosenthal pointed out, the initial stages of the American-led war on terrorism--in particular, the war on al-Qaeda and the Taliban--enjoyed broad international support, whereas ...
FEB 27, 2003 • Article
Can Democracies Initiate Preventive War? America's Confrontation with the Soviet Union and Iraq
During his commencement address to West Point graduates in June 2002, President Bush set in motion an extraordinary national and international debate over waging war with ...