Faculty

Areas of Interest:
Security, Religion & Politics in South Asia & Middle East, Rule of Law & Policing in Developing States, Building Narratives for Preventing & Countering Violent Extremism

Areas of Interest:
Energy security, Counter-terrorism, Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, International political economy, Middle East, Caspian Sea/Central Asia, U.S. foreign policy

Mark Bibbey is an Associate Dean and Academic Adviser at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies.

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Areas of Interest:
Military History, Revolutionary and Counter Revolutionary War, Joint Operational Planning, Maritime Strategy, Amphibious and Expeditionary Warfare
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Areas of Interest:
Military Education and Training Design, Systems Approach to Training, Talent Management and Human Capability Optimization, Organisational Bias and Managing Change, Lessons exploitation, Faculty Development, Accreditation
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Dr. Wayne Clark serves as the Director of AM&E at the NESA Center to program manage, educate, and advise faculty in assessing, monitoring, and evaluating the Centers 70+ fiscal year security cooperation activities to achieve quality learning outcomes of multilateral interests to the U.S., allies, and partners.

Areas of Interest:
Arabian Peninsula and Mediterranean Littoral, Unconventional Warfare, Stabilization and Reconstruction, Homeland Defense
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Areas of Interest:
Intelligence, Military History, India and Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Asia
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Areas of Interest:
Counter-Insurgency and Counter-Terrorism Operations, Post-Conflict Stabilization and Reconstruction, Counter-Narcotics Operations
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Areas of Interest:
Religion and Political Violence, Levant Security
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Charles (Chuck) Marks is an Associate Dean and Professional Military Education (PME) Expert at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies.

Areas of Interest:
National Security Policy, Peacekeeping and Reconciliation, Women’s Role in Security, European and Middle Eastern Affairs
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Jeffrey Payne pilots the NESA Center’s maritime security programming, including its ongoing series devoted to the Indian Ocean Region and wider Indo Pacific.

Areas of Interest:
The history and politics of Egypt and the Levant, The Arab-Israeli conflict, Abraham Accords, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
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Areas of Interest:
Transnational Threats, Central Asian Regional Security
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Thomas Wagstaff is an Academic Adviser at the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies.
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Areas of Interest:
Professional Military Education, Senior Leader Development, Strategy and Planning, Decision Making