Dr. Jay M. Parker

Jay M. Parker is an Adjunct Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In 2023, he retired as Distinguished Professor and Major General Fox Conner Chair of International Security Studies in the College of International Security Affairs of National Defense University.

Dr. Parker previously served on the faculties at Columbia, George Washington, and Georgetown Universities. He was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and at Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies. He is former chair of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) and former chair of the ISA Standing Committee on Professional Development. He also served on Governing Councils of the Foreign Policy, Film and Politics, and International Security and Arms Control sections of the American Political Science Association. From 2011 to 2016, Dr. Parker served as CISA’s International Security Studies Department Head.

Dr. Parker is the co-author of Restoring Thucydides: Testing Familiar Lessons and Deriving New Ones with Dr. Andrew Novo. He has lectured at colleges, universities, and policy studies centers in the US, Japan, and Great Britain. His teaching, research, and publication areas include International Relations, Security Studies, East Asia, Mass Media and Politics, American Foreign Policy, and Politics and Film.