Status
Professor and Chairman

Contact
djmoran@nps.edu

Research Interests
International and Military History; Environmental and Energy Security; Europe; Middle East; International Law

Biography
Daniel Moran is Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He was educated at Yale and Stanford Universities, and has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Professor Moran teaches courses and supervises doctoral research in strategic theory, American foreign relations, and the international and military histories of Europe and the Middle East.

Other Recent Publications

• Maritime Strategy and Global Order [with James Russell] (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming 2013).
• "The Great Game and the Quagmire: The Anglo-Soviet War in Afghanistan, 1839–1989," in Fighting the Afghanistan War: States, Organisations, and Military Adaptation, ed. Theo Farrell, Frans Osinga, and James Russell, forthcoming 2012.
• "Energy Security," in The Handbook of Oil Politics, ed. Robert E. Looney (Routledge, forthcoming).
• Clausewitz, the State, and War [with Andreas Herberg-Rothe and Jan Willem Honig] (Franz Steiner, forthcoming).
• Climate Change and National Security (Georgetown University Press, 2011).
• "Clausewitz on Waterloo: Napoleon at Bay," in On Waterloo: Clausewitz, Wellington, and the Campaign of 1815, edited and translated by Christopher Bassford, Daniel Moran, and Greg W. Pedlow.
• Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management [with James Russell] (Routledge, 2009).
• "War in the Middle East," in Handbook of US-Middle East Relations, ed. Robert E. Looney (Routledge, 2009).
• "The Maritime Governance System," in The Politics of Maritime Power, ed. Andrew Tan (Routledge, 2007).
• "The Strategic Geography of Modern War: Air, Land, Sea, Space, and Cyberspace," in Strategy in the Contemporary World, ed. James Wirtz and John Bayless, 3rd edition (Oxford University Press, 2007).
• "The Instrument: Clausewitz on Aims and Objectives in War," in Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe (Oxford University Press, 2007).
• Wars of National Liberation (Harper-Collins, rev. ed. 2006).
• The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution [with Arthur Waldron] (Cambridge University Press, 2003; pbk. 2006).
• "Restraints on Violence and the Reconstruction of International Order after 1945," in War and Terror in Historical and Contemporary Perspective, ed. Michael Geyer, (American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2003). (PDF)