James W. Vizzard

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Titles and Organizations

Schar School of Policy and Government PhD in Political Science student

About

B.A., College of William and Mary: History (1990)
M.A., Colorado State University: English (2000)
M.M.A.S., U.S. Army Command and General Staff College: Strategy (2004)

Research Interests

Civil-military relations; military politicization; National Guard

Dissertation

Targets of Opportunism: U.S. Military Politicization in an Era of Hyper Polarization

Dissertation Chair

Michael Hunzeker

Publications

James W. Vizzard and Timothy A. Capron, “Exporting General Petraeus’s Counterinsurgency Doctrine: An Assessment of the Adequacy of Field Manual 3-24 and the US Government’s Implementation,” Public Administration Review 70, no. 3 (2010): 485–93.

Hilton L. Root, Joseph A.E. Shaheen, Dersu E. Tanca, and James W. Vizzard, “Scale and Complexity in Political Economy: A Question of Liberty,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 52, no. 1 (2021): 69–91.