James Lockhart

James Lockhart's primary research interests include American foreign relations, security and intelligence studies, and Latin American politics and history. It offers historians, policymakers, and the informed public an alternative way to think about the United States and international affairs and the effectiveness of US strategy and foreign policy, particularly with respect to the workings of Washington's power and influence in the developing world. This departs from the U.S.-centered narratives that have tended to shape and condition the production of historical knowledge, public opinion, and policymaking since the 1970s. Besides appreciated American agency, power, and influence, it recognizes Latin American and Global South agency, power, and influence. Lockhart hopes that this will cultivate more dynamic, interactive, and historically sounder interpretations that will in turn promote more mature and productive relationships between the United States and others in the twenty-first century. Lockhart serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Intelligence History, has published in the International History Review, the Marine Corps University Journal (MCU Journal), and War on the Rocks. He has been consulted on background and/or interviewed by investigative journalists in the US, Brazil, and the Emirates. He is currently researching the career of Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters in Latin America, from the Brazilian coup in 1964 to the Falklands War in 1982.