Craig Etcheson

Dr. Craig Etcheson is currently a Visiting Scholar with the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, where he specializes in transitional justice. He is completing a book on the interaction of law and politics in war crimes tribunals. From 2006 to 2012, as a United Nations staff member, Etcheson served as an investigator in the Office of the Co-Prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

He has been a faculty member at Northern Illinois University, George Washington University, the Johns Hopkins University, Yale University and the University of Southern California. Etcheson is the author of numerous books, monographs and research papers, including The Rise and Demise of Democratic Kampuchea (Westview Press and Pinter Publishers, 1984), Arms Race Theory: Strategy and the Structure of Behavior (Greenwood Publishers, 1989), Reconciliation in Cambodia: Theory and Practice (Strategic Implementation, 2004), and most recently, After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide (Texas Tech University Press, 2006).

He has published papers in such journals as Third World Quarterly, the Journal of Political Science, Current History, and the Journal of International and Comparative Law.  His writings have also appeared in the Phnom Penh Post, the Bangkok Nation, the Asian Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Etcheson was awarded a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California in 1985 after submitting a dissertation on mathematical models of war.