Bio
Dr. Bauman teaches American Government, American Foreign & National Security Policy, Middle East Politics, Comparative Politics, Causes of War, and Religion and Politics at the United States Air Force Academy.
From April 2017 to June 2018, he served at the White House on the National Security Council as the Senior Director for Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian, and Egyptian Affairs.
Prior to the NSC, he was a Senior Military Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies and an adjunct professor at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, both at the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
In 2013-2014, during the negotiations led by Secretary of State John Kerry between Israelis and Palestinians, Bauman was the Chief of Staff for the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, General John R. Allen, USMC, retired. Gen Allen’s team was responsible for the security portfolio of a proposed two-state agreement.
Prior to his arrival at NDU, Colonel Bauman was deployed to Iraq (2011-12) where he specialized in interagency cooperation and international partnership. The first half of his time was with the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) and the second half was with the Office of Security Cooperation, Iraq (OSC-I).
Before his time in Iraq, he was at Air Command and Staff College as a student and then as a faculty member, where he first specialized in joint warfare and the Process of Accreditation for Joint Education. He was then selected to pursue a PhD in International Studies at the University of Denver where his dissertation explored multiparty mediation in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He returned to ACSC to serve as the Chairman of the Curriculum Department in the Distance Learning Directorate where he led a team of majors, lieutenant colonels and senior PhD civilians that delivered a fully accredited master’s program to over 1,000 students and completely redesigned a non-master’s program that served more than 10,000.
Bauman spent the first ten years of his career flying mobility missions in the C-27 throughout Central and South America and then in the C-5 worldwide. He additionally served as an instructor and evaluator pilot at the C-5 schoolhouse.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (1989)
Master of Public Administration, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (1995)
Master of Military Operational Art and Science, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama (2003)
Doctorate in International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado (2009)
Research and Scholarly Interests
His areas of interest are U.S. foreign policy, national security strategy and policy, national security decision-making, Middle East politics, Arab-Israeli conflict, civil-military relations, comparative politics, and officer education.
Publications
Bauman, Kris. “Getting to Iraqi Ownership of Iraqi Security,” War on the Rocks, January, 2015, available at: https://warontherocks.com/2015/01/getting-to-iraqi-ownership-of-iraqi-security/
Bauman, Kris, Ilan Goldenberg, Gadi Shamni, and Nimrod Novik. Advancing the Dialogue: A Security System for the Two-State Solution, Center for a New American Security, May 2016, available at https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.cnas.org/documents/CNASReport-2StateSolution-FINAL.pdf?mtime=20161004141032
Bauman, Kris and Ilan Goldenberg. “Symposium | A Security System for the Two-State Solution,” Fathom, September, 2016, available at http://fathomjournal.org/symposium-a-security-system-for-the-two-state-solution/
Bauman, Kris, “The Need for a Two-State Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement,” Types and Locations of Challenges to US Interests, 2019-2029, NSI, September, 2019.
Forthcoming: Bauman, Kris, “Israeli Civil-Military Relations: Exactly Like Nowhere Else,” in Civil-Military Relations in an Era of Great Power Competition, Routledge Press, TBD.