ICAS Bulletin
Institute for Corean-American Studies, Inc.
Bruce E. Bechtol Jr
ICAS Fellow
Dear Friend:
We are pleased to share with you that Bruce
E. Bechtol Jr was named ICAS Fellow as of July 7, 2009.
Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. (Ph.D.
Union Institute) is Professor of International Relations at the Marine Corps Command
and Staff College (2005 – present) and former Assistant Professor of National Security
Studies at the Air Command and Staff College (2003-2005). Bruce was an adjunct Visiting
Professor at the Korea University Graduate School of International Studies (2006-2007)
and an adjunct Professor of Diplomacy at Norwich University (2005-2009). He received
his B.S. from Excelsior College (Liberal Studies), and his M.A. from Catholic University
(International Affairs).
Bruce was an Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence
Agency from 1997 until 2003. He eventually served as the Senior Analyst for Northeast
Asia in the Intelligence Directorate (J2) on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. Before
beginning his career at the Defense Intelligence Agency, Bruce was on active duty
for 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving at various locations in the western
Pacific and East Asia. He has written widely on Korean security issues, contributing
articles to such journals as Comparative Strategy, the International Journal of
Korean Studies, Pacific Focus, the Korea Observer, East Asian Review, the Air and
Space Power Journal, the International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Korean
Quarterly, and Occasional Papers: The Journal of the Korea American Historical Society.
He was the Editor of the Defense Intelligence Journal (2004-2005), and on the Editorial
Review Board of the East Asian Review (2005-2009). In addition to serving on the
Board of Directors of the International Council on Korean Studies, Bruce sits on
the Board of Directors of the Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies.
Bruce is
the author of Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea (Potomac Books,
2007), and the editor of The Quest for a Unified Korea: Strategies for the Cultural
and Interagency Process, (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Foundation, 2007).
In addition, he is a contributing author to several books including The United States
and the Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century, eds. Seung-Ho Joo and Tae-Hwan Kwak
(Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2006), Between Total Wars and Small Wars: Studies
in the Societal History of the Cold War (in German), ed. Bernd Greiner (Hamburg,
Germany: Hamburg Institute for Social Research, 2006), and Divided Korea: Longing
for Reunification, ed. Ho Youn Kwon (Chicago, Ill: North Park University Press,
2004).
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Sang Joo Kim / signed
Sr. Fellow & Executive Vice President
ICAS
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