Dr Peter Chalk is a Senior Policy Analyst with the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California. He has worked on a range of projects, including studies examining unconventional security threats in Southeast and South Asia; new strategic challenges for the US Air Force (USAF) in Latin America, Africa and South Asia; evolving trends in national and international terrorism; Australian defense and foreign policy; international organized crime; the transnational spread of disease; U.S. military links in the Asia-Pacific; and internal security reform in Pakistan. He is a specialist correspondent for Jane’s Intelligence Review and Associate Editor of Studies in Conflict Terrorism – one of the foremost journals in the international security field. Dr. Chalk has regularly testified before the U.S. Senate on issues pertaining to national and international terrorism and is author of numerous books, book chapters, monographs and journal articles dealing with various aspects of low intensity conflict in the contemporary world. Dr. Chalk also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Postgraduate Naval School in Monterey, California and regularly works with both the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu and the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) in Washington D.C. Prior to joining RAND, Dr Chalk was an Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Strategic and Defense Studies Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra. Apart from his academic posts, Dr Chalk has acted as a research consultant in the UK, Canada and Australia and has experience with the UK Armed Forces.

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