Scholar gets nod to fill Defense Department job
Paul Stockton
Paul Stockton, a senior research scholar at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, is in line for a top Defense Department job.
The White House announced this week that President Barack Obama plans to nominate Stockton for an assistant secretary of defense post in charge of homeland defense and America's security affairs.
Stockton, 54, was formerly the associate provost at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and was the founding director of its Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
His research focuses on how U.S. security institutions respond to changes in threat environments, and the interaction of Congress and the executive branch in restructuring national security budgets, policies and institutional arrangements.
Before founding and serving as the acting dean of the Naval Postgraduate School's School of International Graduate Studies in 2000, Stockton spent five years directing NPS's Center for Civil-Military Relations. Between 1986 and 1989, he was a legislative assistant to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York. Stockton earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in 1976 and a doctorate in government from Harvard 10 years later.
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