Mary Barton, PhD.

Adjunct Fellow

Expertise: Counter-Terrorism, Political Violence, International Law, Intelligence and Information Sharing

Mary Barton is a wargaming analyst at a Washington, DC-based consulting firm. She works on issues connected to cyber security. Previously, she worked as a historian for the Historical Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), US Department of Defense. Her book, Counterterrorism Between the Wars: An International History of the Great Powers, 1919 -1937, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Dr. Barton received her PhD in history from the University of Virginia in 2016.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles

“The United States and International Terrorism” (co-authored with David Wight) in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, ed. Mark Lawrence. Oxford University Press (2019)

“The British Empire and International Terrorism: India’s Separate Path at the League of Nations, 1934-1937,” Journal of British Studies 56 (April 2017): 351-373

“The Global War on Anarchism: The United States and International Anarchist Terrorism, 1898-1904” Diplomatic History (April 2015) 39 (2): 303-330

“The British Empire and International Terrorism: India’s Separate Path at the League of Nations, 1934-1937” Journal of British Studies (forthcoming April 2017)

“The Global War on Anarchism: The United States and International Anarchist Terrorism, 1898-1904”  Diplomatic History (April 2015) 39 (2): 303-330

Other Publications

“The Ideology of Counter-Terrorism” OUPblog | Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World, June 2015

CURRENT RESEARCH

• Intelligence sharing and alliances of the 20^th Century
• The USG and counterterrorism in the 1990s