James Lockhart
Assistant Professor
- Email: JAMES.LOCKHART@ZU.AC.AE
- Telephone: +971 4 4021624
- Address: Dubai Academic City, C-L1-035
Introduction
James Lockhart (PhD, University of Arizona) researches history and international affairs, specializing in American foreign relations, intelligence, and the Global South. He has lived in Dubai for six years.
Research and Professional Activities
Lockhart's work has been published in International Affairs, the International History Review, the Journal of Advanced Military Studies, and War on the Rocks. He has been an invited speaker before the British intelligence community, the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, and the North American Society for Intelligence History. Based on the strength of the contributions to the advancement of historical knowledge of his first book, Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Intelligence History, and as a peer reviewer for Intelligence and National Security and the International History Review. His second book project, which will be published by Georgetown University Press in 2025, assesses the career of Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters. Lockhart's research has been funded by the Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson presidential foundations, and by the Gen. George Marshall Foundation.
Teaching Areas
At ZU, Lockhart's teaching, advising, and mentoring activities support students in the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (BAIS) program and the Master of Arts in Diplomacy and International Affairs (MADIA).
His qualifications in curriculum design and planning, assessment of the effectiveness of teaching and learning, and reaching socially and culturally diverse students include his election as Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), by AdvanceHE in the United Kingdom, and a certificate in higher education pedagogy from Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.
Before joining the faculty at ZU, Lockhart lectured at the University of Arizona, the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence, and the American University in Dubai’s Department of International and Middle Eastern Studies. He has offered courses and graduate seminars on American foreign relations, Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), global security and intelligence studies, US-East Asian relations, Vietnam and the Cold War, American military in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, asymmetrical warfare, and the CIA and covert operations.
Lockhart, J. (2022). Principal Consumer: President Biden's Approach to Intelligence. International Affairs, published online, 7 Feb. 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab210.
Lockhart, J. (2021). Cuba and the Secret World. International History Review 43, pp. 170-184.
Lockhart, J. (2020). International Cooperation during the Cold War: British Interest in Chile's Early Nuclear History, 1953-1970. In Thomas Mills and Rory Miller, eds., Britain and the Growth of US Hegemony in Twentieth-Century Latin America: Competition, Cooperation and Coexistence (pp. 181-202). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lockhart, J. (2019). Chilean Expansion and Southern South America's Integration into the Modern Capitalist System, 1879-1931. In S. Joseph (ed.), Commodity Frontiers and Global Capitalist Expansion: Social, Ecological and Political Implications from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (pp. 183-214). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lockhart, J. (2019). How Effective Are Covert Operations? Reevaluating the CIA's Intervention in Chile, 1964-1973." Marine Corps University Journal 10 (No. 1), pp. 21-49.
Lockhart, J. (2019). Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
