Dr. Derrick V. Frazier is Professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), Alabama. SAASS is a selective one-year graduate school for strategists with 16 terminally credentialed faculty and 45 Air Force, Department of Defense, and international students. As part of the faculty, he is responsible for creating warrior-scholars who have a superior ability to develop, evaluate, and employ airpower as a component of military force in support of national objectives.
Dr. Frazier joined SAASS in 2016 after serving on the faculty of the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), the Air Command and Staff College and the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa). His areas of expertise include strategy, security studies, regional powers and security orders, space security and military socialization. Dr. Frazier’s most recent work is Space Policy for the Twenty-First Century, co-authored with Dr. Wendy Whitman Cobb. Additional work includes research articles on socialization through military doctrine, the competition for leadership in the space domain, security order dynamics in East Asia as well as applied work on doctrine development with the Association of African Air Forces as a United States Air Forces in Europe and United States Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) subject matter expert.
EDUCATION
2004 PhD (Political Science), University of Arizona
2000 MA (International Studies), North Carolina State University
1996 BA (Anthropology), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
2003-2010, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2009-2010, Visiting Professor, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
2010-2013, Professor of National Security Studies, USAF Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL
2013-2016, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
2016-2019, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell AFB, AL
2019-Present, Deputy Commandant, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell AFB, AL
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
AETC Cat IV Civilian of the Year, 2018
Air University Cat IV Civilian of the Year, 2018
PUBLICATIONS
Space Policy for the Twenty-First Century (w/Wendy N. Whitman Cobb). Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2024.
“Regional Challenges in an Uncertain Global Order: The Case of East Asia.” (w/ Nicholas Sobecki). International Politics, 2024.
“The Regional Powers Research Program—A New Way Forward.” (w/ Miriam Prys Hansen). International Politics, 2024.
“Tactical Friends with Strategic Benefits: NATO’s Tactical Leadership Programme” (w/J. Wesley Hutto). 2018. RUSI Journal 163(5): 38-48.
“The Socialization of Military Power: Security Cooperation and Doctrine Development through Multinational Military Exercises.” (with J. Wesley Hutto). 2017. Defence Studies 4(17): 379-397.
Regional Powers and Regional Security Orders (w/Robert Stewart-Ingersoll). London: Routledge, 2012.
“Regional Influences on Mediation Behavior.” (with Andrew P. Owsiak and Virginia Sanders). 2014. International Negotiation 19(2): 285-314.
“The Conflict Management Efforts of Allies in Interstate Disputes.” (with Andrew P. Owsiak). 2014. Foreign Policy Analysis 10(3): 243-264.
“Geopolitics and India,” in David Scott, ed. 2011. Handbook of India’s International Relations. London: Routledge, 2011.
“Regional Powers and Security: A Framework for Understanding Order within Regional Security Complexes.” (with Robert Stewart-Ingersoll). 2010. European Journal of International Relations 16(4): 731-753.
“India as a Regional Power: Identifying the Impact of Roles and Foreign Policy Orientation on the South Asian Security Order.” (with Robert Stewart- Ingersoll). 2010. Asian Security 6(1): 51-73.
“Resistance to Hegemony within the Core: Domestic Politics, Terrorism and Policy Divergence within the G7 (with Thomas J. Volgy, Robert Stewart- Ingersoll and Kristin Kanthak),” in Davis Bobrow, ed. 2008. Hegemony Constrained: Evasion, Modification, and Resistance. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press: 101-119.
“Third Party Characteristics, Territory and the Mediation of Militarized Interstate Disputes.” 2006. Conflict Management and Peace Science 23(4): 1-18.
“Third Party Intermediaries and Negotiated Settlements, 1946-2000.” (with William J. Dixon). 2006. International Interactions 32(4): 385-408.
“The G7, International Terrorism, and Domestic Politics: Modeling Policy Cohesion in Response to Systemic Disturbances.” (with Thomas J. Volgy, Robert Stewart Ingersoll and Kristin Kanthak). 2004. International Interactions 30(3): 191-210.
“Preference Similarities and Group Hegemony: G7 Voting Cohesion in the UN General Assembly.” (with Robert Stewart Ingersoll and Thomas J. Volgy). 2003. Journal of International Relations and Development (6): 51-70.
“Patterns of Negotiation in Non-War Militarized Interstate Disputes.” (with Gary Goertz). 2002. International Negotiation (7): 339-61.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
International Studies Association
American Political Science Association
European International Studies Association
Faculty Affiliate, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, University of Illinois