| David P. Houghton | |
| Birth Name: | David Patrick Houghton |
| Birth Date: | November 21, 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Northwest England |
| Nationality: | British American |
| Fields: | International relations |
| Workplaces: | US Naval War College |
| Alma Mater: | University of Sheffield University of Pittsburgh |
David Patrick Houghton (born November 21, 1966) is a Senior Fellow/Associate at LSE IDEAS and a retired Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College.[1]
Houghton was born and raised in St. Helens and Warrington in the northwest of England, but he is of mostly Irish and Italian descent. He received a B.A with Honours in politics from the University of Sheffield in 1989. He also received an M.A. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992, and a Ph.D. from the same school in 1996 with a thesis on "The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Foreign and Domestic Policy Contexts".
He was then a lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex from 1997 to 2003. From 2001 to 2002, he was a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University, during a period of research leave from Essex. He taught at the University of Central Florida between 2003 and 2013, and was a senior lecturer in defence studies at King's College London from 2013 to 2016.
Houghton's areas of expertise are political psychology, foreign policy decision-making, American foreign policy and US-Iranian relations. In addition to six books, he has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles. One of his books, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis, was a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has also done media interviews on the Iran hostage crisis and other topics with The New York Times,[2] Sky News, National Public Radio, WOFL (Fox 35 Orlando) and other outlets He is also a writer for Project Syndicate.