Dr. James Lockhart studies the history of American foreign relations, global security and intelligence, and Latin American affairs, particularly southern South America, during the Cold War. A member of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Scholars Strategy Network, he has published on the history of the CIA, contributed to War on the Rocks, an online platform for analysis, commentary, debate, and multimedia content on national security and foreign policy, and been interviewed by American and Emirati journalists. His first book, Chile, the CIA, and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective, will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2019. Before joining the faculty in International and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University in Dubai, he lectured at the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence and at the University of Arizona, where he earned his PhD.