David Patrick Houghton (born November 21, 1966) is a Senior Fellow/Associate at

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and a retired Professor of National Security Affairs at the

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Education and early career

Houghton was born and raised in St. Helens and Warrington in the northwest of England, but he is of mostly Irish and Italian descent. He received a B.A with Honours in politics from the University of Sheffield in 1989. He also received an M.A. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992, and a Ph.D. from the same school in 1996 with a thesis on "The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Foreign and Domestic Policy Contexts". He was then a lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex from 1997 to 2003. From 2001 to 2002, he was a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University, during a period of research leave from Essex. He taught at the University of Central Florida between 2003 and 2013, and was a senior lecturer in defence studies at

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from 2013 to 2016.

Career

Houghton's areas of expertise are political psychology, foreign policy decision-making, American foreign policy and US-Iranian relations. In addition to six books, he has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles. One of his books, '' U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis,'' was a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has also done media interviews on the Iran hostage crisis and other topics with The New York Times,

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, National Public Radio, WOFL (Fox 35 Orlando) and other outlets He is also a writer for

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Bibliography

Books

*''Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: British Foreign Policy Since 1945'' (Second Edition with David Sanders) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. *''A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy: Tragic Choices and the Limits of Rationality (Citizen Guides to Politics and Public Affairs)'' New York and London: Routledge, 2013. *''The Decision Point: Six Case Studies in U.S. Foreign Policy Decision-Making'' New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/?view=usa&ci=9780199743520 *''Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases'' (New York and London: Routledge, 2009). *''Controversies in American Politics and Society'' with David McKay and Andrew Wroe. New York and Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002. *''U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis'' New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Houghton, David P. 1966 births Living people American political scientists Academics of King's College London Alumni of the University of Sheffield