Terry Terriff

Dr. Terriff joined the Department in 2008, after having been a member of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, for twelve and half years. While in the UK, Dr. Terriff was the recipient of three UK Economic and Social Research Council grants to conduct international studies on change in military organizations and transatlantic security issues.  His main areas of research interest are change in military organizations, with a particular emphasis on change in the US military; the changing character of warfare; US security policy; and NATO/transatlantic security issues.

Dr. Terriff is the Arthur J. Child Chair of American Security Policy, a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, and a Fellow of the Institute of US Policy Studies.  Dr. Terriff is a co-editor of the University of Calgary-based Journal of Military and Strategic Studies and was formerly the co-editor of the journal Contemporary Security Policy from 1991 to 2005.  Dr. Terriff is also a Visiting Lecturer at the NATO School (Allied Command Transformation) in Germany.

Dr. Terriff is currently completing a book on military change in the US Marine Corps from Vietnam to the second Iraq War, a subject on which he has published several articles and given numerous presentations.  He is also completing, with an international group of scholars, an edited volume on military transformation in Europe, as well as working on a co-authored piece on European officers attitudes toward military transformation and sole authored analysis of the new US President and US security policy.   He is further starting to conduct research on military change in the US Army since the 1991 Gulf War and on ‘lessons learned’ of Iraq (and Afghanistan) and military change in the US military.

Dr. Terriff is interested in supervising graduate students working in the areas of: change in military organizations, the US military, US security and foreign policy, transatlantic security relations and/or NATO, and strategic culture, and will consider supervising selected topics in the general fields of strategic and security studies.