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Eugene Gholz is an Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin, where he is also the graduate advisor for the master's program in global policy studies. Before coming to Texas, he was Assistant Director and Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. He is also a Research Affiliate of MIT's Security Studies Program, a member of the Board of Advisors at the Independent Institute's Center on Peace and Liberty, and Associate Editor of the journal Security Studies.

Gholz has written numerous articles, book chapters, and op-ed columns on innovation, business-government relations, defense management, and U.S. foreign military policy. He is the coauthor (with Peter Dombrowski) of Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry, published by Columbia University Press in September, 2006. Routledge published his second book (with Harvey M. Sapolsky and Caitlin Talmadge), US Defense Politics: The Origin of Security Policies, in August 2008.  He is currently working on several projects, including one on oil and American grand strategy and one on competitiveness in the commercial aircraft industry.  He received his Ph.D. from MIT.

Selected Research:

• US Defense Politics: The Origins of Security Policy, with Harvey M. Sapolsky and Caitlin Talmadge, Routledge, 2008
• Assessing Threats to Energy Security in the Persian Gulf, Aug 2008
• "A Business Model for Defense Acquisition under the Modular Open Systems Approach," Defense Acquisition Review Journal, Feb 2007
• "Energy Alarmism: the Myths that Make Americans Worry about Oil," with Daryl G. Press, Cato Institute Policy Analysis, Winter 2007
• Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry, with Peter Dombrowski, Columbia University Press, 2006
• "Czars and Company Men: The Wrong Way to Run National Security Space Acquisition," Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2004

Selected Commentary:

• "All the Oil We Need,"  The New York Times, Aug 2008