1. CURICULUMVITAE: DR. ANTHONY CELSO
Departmentfor Security Studies
AngeloState University
EDUCATION:
PH.D Comparative PublicPolicy,The OhioState University,1989
M.A. PublicPolicy,The OhioState University, 1987
B.A. Political Science,The OhioState University,1982
ACADEMIC CAREER:
Associate Professor: AngeloState University2011-
Professor: Government(ValleyForge MilitaryCollege) 2010-2011
Associate Professor: Government(ValleyForge MilitaryCollege) 2007-2009
AssistantProfessor: Government(ValleyForge MilitaryCollege) 1999-2006
Lecturer: EuropeanHistory(AlbrightCollege) 1994-1999
AssistantProfessor: Political Science(Universityof Central Florida)1990-1994
VisitingProfessor: Political Science(MountUnionCollege) 1989-1990
MEMBERSHIP ASSOCIATIONS:
AmericanPolitical Science Association
WorldAffairsCouncil
LANGUAGESKILLS:
SpanishFluency
2. COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT:
AngeloState University
Undergraduate on Line (Designed)
Culture andPoliticsof the Middle East
Political Economyof the Middle East
ContemporarySecurityIssuesinthe Middle East
TerrorismandInternational Security
Graduate on Line (Designed)
SecurityIssuesinthe Middle East
Taught on line
Weakand FailingStates
Culture andPoliticsof the Middle East
TerrorismandNational Security
TerrorismandInternational Security
ContemporarySecurityIssuesinthe Middle East
IntroductiontoCultural Competence:MakingSense of the WorldI & II
Political Economyof the Middle East
IntelligenceandNational Security
EnergySecurity
ValleyForge Military College
Undergraduate
Middle EastPolitics
Global Security(Inclassandon-line)
Comparative Politics
HolocaustinComparative Perspective
WesternCivilizationI,II& III
AmericanGovernment
U.S. ForeignPolicy
PublicPolicy
3. AlbrightCollege
Undergraduate Courses
AmericanGovernment
PublicPolicy
ModernEurope
Early ModernEurope
Comparative Genocide
Comparative Revolutions
Comparative Fascism
Political Psychologyof MassHate (Co-DevelopedandTaughtwithEdwardGlbert)
Politicsof Godand State
Comparative Politics
UniversityofCentral Florida
Undergraduate Courses
Judicial Process
WestEuropeanPolitics
EasternEuropeanPolitics
AmericanGovernment
Graduate Courses
Comparative PoliticsSeminar
Mount UnionCollege
Undergraduate Courses
ContemporaryPolitical Ideologies
AmericanGovernment
IntroductiontoPublicPolicy
Comparative Politics
HONORS AND AWARDS
GraduatesAward(ValleyForge MilitaryCollege,2010)
GraduatesAward(ValleyForge MilitaryCollege,2008)
GraduatesAward(ValleyForge MilitaryCollege,2007)
OutstandingTeachingAward(ValleyForge MilitaryCollege,2003)
Excellence inTeachingAward(Universityof Central Florida,1993)
Graduate TeachingAssistant(The OhioState University,1983-1987)
4. Books:
AnthonyCelso andRobertNalbandov (co-editors),TheCrisisof the African Statein the 21st
Century:
Globalization,Tribalism and JihadismUnbound.Marine CorpsUniversity Press(ForthcomingSpring
2015)
AnthonyCelso, AlQaeda’sPost9-11 Devolution:The Failed JihadistStruggleagainstthe Nearand Far
Enemy.(BloomsburyPress:NewYork,2014)
Journal Articlesand Book Chapters
AnthonyCelso, “Al Qaedainthe IslamicMaghreb:Libya,Mali and the NextJihadistWar“in The Crisis of
the African Statein the 21st
Century:Globalization,Tribalismand JihadismUnbound.Marine Corps
UniversityPress (ForthcomingSpring2015)
AnthonyCelso, “Zarqawi’sLegacy:Al Qaeda’sISISRenegade”Mediterranean Quarterly 26:2
(forthcomingSpring2015)
AnthonyCelso,“BokoHaramand the IslamicState:FifthWave JihadistTerrorGroups” Orbis (Spring
2015) 59:2 249-268
AnthonyCelso,“Dabiq:IS’s21st
CenturyApocalypticManifesto”Journalof PoliticalScience and Public
Affairs 2:14 November,2014
AnthonyCelso,“Obamaandthe Arab Spring:the StrategicConfusionof aRealist-Idealist”Journalof
Political Science and PublicAffairs 2:2 February26, 2014
AnthonyCelso,“Cycles of JihadistMovementsandthe Role of Irrationality”Orbis59: 2 (Spring2014)
229-247
AnthonyCelso,“Al Qaeda’sPostBinLadenResurgence:The Paradox of Failure and Resilience”
Mediterranean Quarterly 25:2 (Spring2014) 22-47
AnthonyCelso,“The SyrianJihad,Sectarianism andAl Qaeda’sLatestAffiliate“The Journalof Political
Science and Public AffairsVolume1: Issue1 (May 2013)
AnthonyCelso,“Al QaedaAffiliatesOperatinginFailedStates:The NextFrontinthe War on Terror”
publishedbyConference PublishingService forthe EuropeanIntelligence andSecurityInformatics
Conference Odense,DenmarkAugust22-24,2012.
AnthonyCelso,“Al Qaeda’sPost9-11Organizational Structure andStrategy:The Role of Islamist
Regional Affiliates”In Mediterranean Quarterly Volume 23,no.2 (Spring2012) pgs.30-41.
5. AnthonyCelso, “Puncturingthe Mythof SpanishHome-GrownTerrorism:3/11Attacks andthe Islamist
Threat Revisited”in BurgerimStat (GermanPolitical Science Journal:September2011). The essayis part
of an editedvolume associatedwiththe Universityof TubingenconferenceonHome GrownTerrorism
inthe West(September8-9,2010)
AnthonyCelso,“Phase IV Operationsinthe Waron Terrorism:A Comparative Examinationof Iraqand
Afghanistan”in Orbis:Spring2010, Vol 55, No2
AnthonyCelso,“Post3/11 Anti-terrorismPolicyinSpain:Zapatero’sTyrannyof Circumstance andthe
Dashingof Good Intentions”in Mediterranean Quarterly,Volume 20,Issue 2, Spring2009
AnthonyCelso,“Al Qaedainthe Maghreb:The NewestFrontinthe War on Terror” inMediterranean
Quarterly,Volume 19,Issue 1, Winter2008
AnthonyCelso,“A NewPlanforIraq”in The Washington Times (op/ed page) June 2,2007
AnthonyCelso,“Spain’sDual SecurityDilemma:Basque andIslamistTerrorduringthe Aznarand
ZapateroEras” in Mediterranean Quarterly, Volume 17,Issue 1, Fall 2006
AnthonyCelso,“The Tragedyof Al Andalus:The MadridTerror Attacksand the Islamizationof Spanish
Politics”inMediterraneanQuarterly,Volume16,Issue 3, Summer2005
AnthonyCelso,“The Deathof the OsloAccords:Israeli SecurityOptionsinthe PostArafatEra” in
Mediterranean Quarterly,Volume14,Issue 1, Winter2003
AnthonyCelso,“DemocratizationinSpain:FromSocialistDominancetoCompetitivePartyPolitics”inM.
Rimanelli (editor), ComparativeDemocratization and PeacefulChangein SingleParty Dominant Polities
(St.Martin’s Press,1999)
AnthonyCelso,“Structural Dependence,PublicEnterprisesandInstitutional ImpedimentstoRussian
EconomicLiberalization”in Mediterranean Quarterly,Volume6,Issue 1,Winter1995
AnthonyCelso,“Neo-liberal RenovationandPolitical Transformation of the SpanishSocialists”inthe
Political Chronicle, Volume 3,Winter1995
AnthonyCelso,“Ideological PluralismandEconomicPolicyInnovation:The Case of the Frenchand
SpanishSocialistsinPower”in Political Chronicle,Volume 4,Number1, Spring1992
6. Book Reviews
AnthonyCelso, “Assessingthe Waron Terror: an AmbivalentPolemic”International StudiesReview
(Forthcoming) Reviewof MohammadAyoobandEtga Ugur, Assessing theWar on Terror (Lynne Reinner:
NewYork,2013) (Forthcoming)
Blog Commentary
AnthonyCelso,“Dabiq:IslamicState (ISIS) Apocalyptic21st
CenturyManifesto”TerrorismResearch
Association Consortium (Fall 2014)
AnthonyCelso,“Al QaedaAffiliatesOperatinginFailedStates:the NextFrontinthe War on Terror”
ExtremisProject(October25, 2013)
SYMPOSIUMWORKSHOPAND CONFERENCEPRESENTATIONS:
“The Caliphate inthe Digital Age:the IslamicState’sThreattothe Liberal Global Order” Global Studies
ConferenceLondon,EnglandJuly26,2015 (Forthcoming)
“Boko Haram and IslamicState:FifthWave IslamistTerrorGroups” Political StudiesAssociation
Sheffield,EnglandApril 1,2015 (Forthcoming)
“JihadistReorganizationalFailureandRegeneration:the TranscendentalRole of Takfiri Violence”
Political Studies Association MeetingManchester,EnglandApril 14-16,2014
“Toward a Wave Theoryof JihadistOrganizational Failure andRegeneration:the Transcendental Roleof
Takfiri Violence”presentedatthe Northeastern PoliticalScience Association MeetingNovember14-16,
2013. Philadelphia,PA
“ Al QaedaAffiliatesOperatinginFailedStates:The NextFrontinthe Waron Terror” presentedatthe
European Intelligenceand SecurityInformaticsConference, August22-24, Universityof SouthDenmark
Odense,Denmark.
“Obama andthe ArabSpring”The Western Political Science Association Meeting:March 25-27, 2012,
Marriot Waterfront.Portland,Oregon
“Al Qaeda’sPost9-11 Evolution:Role of Regional IslamistAffiliates” Northeastern PoliticalScience
Association Conference,November15-17, 2011, Philadelphia,PA
“ Home-GrownTerrorisminSpain”University of Tubingen Conference,September8-9,2010.
Tubingen,Germany
7. “Phase IV:Operationsinthe War on Terror:A Comparative Examinationof Iraqand Afghanistan”Army
HistoriansConference,Aug28-30, 2009 Washington,D.C.
“Post3/11 Anti-TerrorisminSpain:Zapatero’sTyrannyof Circumstance andthe Dashingof Good
Intentions”Northeastern PoliticalScienceAssociation,November13-15, 2008 Boston,MA
“Al Qaeda inthe Maghreb: The NewestFrontinthe War on Terror” Northeastern PoliticalScience
Association,November15-17 2007, Philadelphia,PA
“GlobalizationandResistance:Islamist,LatinPopulistsandGermanRomantics” Northeastern Political
Science Association Conference,November9-11,2006, Boston,MA
“Spain’sDual SecurityDilemma:Basque andIslamistTerrorismduringthe AznarandZapateroEras”
Northeastern PoliticalScience Association Conference,November17-19, 2005, Philadelphia,PA
“The Tragedyof Al Andalus:The Madrid Terror Attacksand the Islamizationof SpanishPolitics”
Northeastern PoliticalScience Association Conference,November11-13, 2004, Boston,MA
REFERENCES
Dr. Bruce Bechtol
Associate Professor
CenterforSecurityStudies
ASU Station#10922
San Angelo,TX76909
(325) 486-6792
Bruce.Bechtol@angelo.edu
Dr. Arlene Noble
Professor
ValleyForge MilitaryCollege
1001 Eagle Rd.
Wayne,PA 19087
(610) 989-1540
Dr. AndreasHasenclaver
Institute of Political Science
CenterforInternational Relations
Melanchthontr,36
72074 Tubingen,Germany
