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JOSHUA ROVNER
Department of Political Science
Southern Methodist University
Carr Collins Hall, Second Floor
3300 University Blvd
Dallas, TX 75205
Email: [email protected]
Office: 214-768-3734
EDUCATION
2008
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Political Science
Dissertation: “Intelligence-Policy Relations and the Problem of Politicization”
2002
Boston College
M.A., Political Science
Thesis: “The Logic of Military Modernization”
1998
University of California, San Diego
B.A., Political Science
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2013-
Southern Methodist University
John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and
National Security
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Director of Studies, Tower Center for Political Studies
Director, Policy and Law Program, Deason Institute for Cyber Security
Acting Director, Tower Center for Political Studies (2015-2016)
2008-2013
U.S. Naval War College
Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and Policy (2011-2013)
Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy and Policy (2008-2011)
2011-2013
Columbia University
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
2006-2008
Williams College
Stanley Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science
2006
College of the Holy Cross
Lecturer, Department of Political Science
2005-2006
Clark University
Visiting Professor, Department of Government and International Relations
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COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate:
American Foreign Policy
Introduction to International Relations
America and the World after 9/11
Intelligence and National Security
Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
Gateway to Global Policy
Strategy
Cybersecurity
Graduate:
Strategy and Policy
Strategy and War
Nuclear Strategy
Intelligence and Foreign Policy
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
2004-2006
MIT Seminar XXI – Research Assistant
2004
Harvard University National Security Fellows Program – Writing Coach
2003
RAND Corporation – Research Associate
2001
Project on Defense Alternatives - Research Assistant
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2011). Winner of the ISSS Best Book Award, presented by the
International Studies Association; and the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, presented by
the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University.
Strategy and Grand Strategy (in progress).
Articles
“Two Kinds of Catastrophe: Nuclear Weapons and Conventional War in Asia,” (in review).
“Does the Internet need a Hegemon?” with Tyler Moore (in review).
“Less is More: The Future of the U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf,” with Caitlin Talmadge,
The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Fall 2014), pp. 47-60.
“Hegemony, Force Posture, and the Provision of Public Goods: The Once and Future Role of
Outside Powers in Securing Persian Gulf Oil,” with Caitlin Talmadge, Security Studies,
Vol. 23, No. 3 (July-September 2014), pp. 548-581.
“Delusion of Defeat: The United States and Iraq, 1990-1998,” Journal of Strategic Studies,
Vol. 37, No. 4 (August 2014), pp. 482-507.
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“Intelligence in the Twitter Age,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence,
Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer 2013), pp. 260-271.
“Is Politicization Ever a Good Thing?” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring
2013), pp. 55-67. Reprinted in Stephen Marrin, ed., Revisiting Intelligence and Policy
Problems with Politicization and Receptivity (London: Routledge, 2014).
“The Heroes of COIN,” Orbis, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Spring 2012), pp. 215-232.
“Campaign Tactics and American Grand Strategy in the Election of 2008,” White House Studies,
Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 1-15.
“The Perils of Shallow Theory: Intelligence Reform and the 9/11 Commission,” with Austin
Long, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 18, No. 4
(Winter 2005-2006), pp. 609-637.
“Preparing for a Nuclear Iran: The Role of the CIA,” Strategic Insights, Vol. 4, No. 11
(November 2005).
“Theories of Failure and Intelligence Reform: Evaluating the 9/11 Commission Report,” with
Austin Long, Breakthroughs, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 10-21.
Book Chapters
“Cross-Domain Deterrence and the Peloponnesian War,” in Jon R. Lindsay and Erik Gartzke,
eds., Cross-Domain Deterrence (in review).
“Intelligence and India’s Nuclear Program,” in Henry Sokolsky, ed., Speaking Truth to
Nonproliferation Intelligence Policy (in review).
“After America: The Flow of Persian Gulf Oil in the Absence of U.S. Military Force” in
Charles Glaser and Rose Kelanic, eds. Crude Calculus: Reexamining the Oil Logic of
America’s Military Presence in the Persian Gulf (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press, 2016).
“Questions about COIN after Iraq and Afghanistan,” in Celeste Ward Gventner, et al.,
The New Counterinsurgency Era in Critical Perspective (London: Palgrave MacMillan,
2014).
“Strategy,” keynote essay in Timothy J. Lynch, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military
and Diplomatic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 314-331.
“After Proliferation: Deterrence Theory and Emerging Nuclear Powers,” in Toshi Yoshihara and
James R. Holmes, eds., Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age: Power, Ambition, and the
Ultimate Weapon (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2012).
“Intelligence and the Wars in Iraq,” in Heather S. Gregg, Hy S. Rothstein, and John Arquilla,
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eds., The Three Circles of War: Understanding the Dynamics of Conflict in Iraq
(Washington, DC: Potomac, 2010).
“Pathologies of Intelligence Producer-Consumer Relations,” in Robert A. Denemark, ed.,
International Studies Association Compendium Project (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010).
Other Publications
“Commentary: The Chilcot Report on the Iraq War,” H-Diplo ISSF Policy Roundtable
(forthcoming).
Response to a roundtable review of Joshua Rovner, Fixing the Facts: National Security and the
Politics of Intelligence, in H-Diplo, Roundtable, Vol. III, No. 17 (July 2012).
“Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq,” CIPS Policy Brief, No.18 (University of Ottawa,
Center for International Policy Studies, June 2012).
“AirSea Battle and Escalation Risks,” Policy Brief, No. 12 (La Jolla, CA: UC San Diego
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, January 2012).
“Fixing the Facts or Missing the Mark? Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq,” Foreign Policy
Research Institute, E-Note, October 2011.
“Dominoes on the Durand Line? Overcoming Strategic Myths in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” with
Austin Long, Foreign Policy Briefing, No. 92 (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, June
2011).
“Intelligence,” in Mark E. Rushesfky, ed., Encyclopedia of Issues in U.S. Public Policy,
(Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson-Gale Publishing, forthcoming).
“Correspondence: How Intelligent is Intelligence Reform?” with Austin Long and Amy B.
Zegart, International Security, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Spring 2006), pp. 196-208.
“Why Intelligence Isn’t to Blame for September 11,” MIT Center for International Studies, Audit
of the Conventional Wisdom, No. 05-13 (November 2005).
Encyclopedia of United States National Security, ed. Richard J. Samuels (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage Publications, 2005). Contributed articles on “Coercive Diplomacy,” “Compellence,”
“Guerilla Warfare,” “Information Warfare,” “Political Assassination,” “Psychological
Warfare,” “Public Diplomacy,” “Special Forces,” and “Voice of America.”
Reviews
Review of John M. Schuessler, Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American
Democracy (Cornell, 2015), in H-Diplo, forthcoming.
Review of Michael S. Goodman, The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee
(London, UK: Routledge, 2014), in H-Diplo, Volume VIII, No. 2 (2015).
Introduction to roundtable review of Stéfanie von Hlatky, American Allies in Times of War:
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The Great Asymmetry (Oxford University Press, 2013), in H-Diplo, Vol. VII, No. 6
(2014).
Review of Hal Brands, What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American
Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (Cornell University Press, 2014), in
H-Diplo, Vol. VII, No. 2 (2014).
Review of Paul Bracken, The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power
Politics (New York, NY: Times Books, 2012), in H-Diplo, Vol. VI, No 8 (May 2014).
Review of Francis J. Gavin, Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012). Reviewed as part of a roundtable in HDiplo, Volume XV, No. 1 (September 2013)
Review of Stephen Marrin, “The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: A Failure of Policy Not Strategic
Intelligence Analysis,” and Scott Lucas, “Recognising Politicisation: The CIA and the
Path to the 2003 War in Iraq,” both in Intelligence and National Security. Vol. 26, Nos.
2-3 (April-June 2011). Reviewed as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. 3, No. 6
(2011).
Review of Michael S. Gerson, “No First Use: The Next Step for U.S. Nuclear Policy,”
International Security, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Fall 2010), pp. 7-47, in H-Diplo 6 (February 4,
2011).
Introduction to roundtable review of Richard K. Betts, Enemies of Intelligence,” H-Diplo,
Volume IX, No. 15 (July 2008).
Review of Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, The Risk Society at War: Terror, Technology and Strategy
in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), in The
Journal of Politics, Vol. 69, No. 4 (November 2007), pp. 1227-1228.
Review of Richard A. Posner, Uncertain Shield: The US Intelligence System in the Throes of
Reform (Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 2006), in The Journal of Strategic Studies,
Vol. 29, No. 6 (December 2006), pp. 1184-1186.
Commentary
“Warring Tribes Studying War and Peace,” War on the Rocks (online), April 12, 2016.
“Why Victory in Mosul Won’t Solve America’s Iraq Conundrum,” with Caitlin Talmadge,
Lawfare (online), April 10, 2016.
“Daniel Drezner says Donald Trump is the champion of foreign policy ‘realism.’ He’s wrong. It’s
Barack Obama,” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, February 11, 2016. Revised version
reprinted as, “Is Trump a Foreign Policy Realist?” in John Sides and Henry Farrell, eds., The
Science of Trump (Washington Post e-book, 2016).
“Searching for Strategy in Putin’s Russia,” War on the Rocks (online), September 13, 2015.
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“Is Someone Politicizing Intelligence on ISIS?” Political Violence at a Glance (online), August
28, 2015.
“Dealing with Putin’s Strategic Incompetence,” War on the Rocks (online) August 15, 2015.
“The Danger of Politicized Intelligence after a Nuclear Deal,” Lawfare (online), May 10, 2015.
“Did the New Spooks on the Block Really Fix U.S. Intelligence?” with Austin Long, Foreign
Policy (online), April 27, 2015.
“An Intel Success: Tracking Iran’s Nuclear Program,” The National Interest, April 16, 2015.
“Why U.S. Intelligence is Right about Iran,” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, April 13,
2015.
“Why Did the United States Leak Its Own War Plan in Iraq? And Will It Work?” with Caitlin
Talmadge, The Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, February 27, 2015.
“Hidden Victories,” Lawfare (online), February 8, 2015.
“Never Mind ISIS and Putin — Asia matters more to U.S. strategy,” Dallas Morning News,
November 5, 2014.
“The Strategic Value of Threat Deflation,” Lawfare (online), October 5, 2014.
“For America’s Military, Less is More in the Middle East,” The National Interest (online),
September 10, 2014.
“For the U.S. Military, Less is More in the Persian Gulf,” Dallas Morning News, September 9,
2014.
“What Ukraine means for how we study war,” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, August
4, 2014.
“Putin’s Grand Strategy is Failing,” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, July 20, 2014.
“`Exclusive’ on NSA Surveillance Reveals Almost Nothing New,” War on the Rocks (online),
July 8, 2014.
“The Real Obama Doctrine? Muddling Through,” The National Interest (online), June 3, 2014.
“What to Say to Russia,” The National Interest (online), March 14, 2014.
“Putin’s Crimea Blunder,” The National Interest (online), March 6, 2014.
“Obama Sidesteps Phony NSA Debate,” The National Interest (online), January 24, 2014.
“Reckless Reforms,” with Austin Long, Foreign Policy (online), January 2, 2014.
“To Avoid Failure, You Must Recognize Success,” Dallas Morning News, November 1, 2013.
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“Three Paths to Nuclear Escalation with China,” The National Interest (online), July 19, 2012.
“The Heroes of COIN,” The National Interest (online), March 12, 2012.
"After Proliferation: How to Deter Iran When it Goes Nuclear," The National Interest (online),
November 21, 2011.
"After Prevention: Prospects for Deterrence in the Wake of a Nuclear Strike on Iran," The
National Interest (online), November 28, 2011.
“David Petraeus and the Afghanistan Report Card,” The National Interest (online), October 18,
2011.
“Faulty Intelligence,” Foreign Policy (online), June 23, 2011.
“Our Current Strategy in Afghanistan is Built on Strategic Myths,” The National Interest (online),
June 14, 2011.
“There’s No Checklist for Counterinsurgency,” with Tim Hoyt, Foreign Policy (online),
November 18, 2010.
“The Public Politics of Intelligence Reports,” Boston Globe, September 28, 2006, p. A9.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
The United States and China: Strategy, Competition, and Innovation, Tower Center, SMU,
November 5-6, 2014.
Making Strategy under Budget Austerity: Regional Threats and Practical Responses, Tower
Center, SMU, October 30-31, 2013.
ISSS/ISAC 2010: The Annual Joint Meeting of the International Security Studies Section (ISA)
and International Security and Arms Control Section (APSA), (program chair). Providence, RI,
October 14-16, 2010.
In from the Cold: Richard K. Betts and the Renaissance of Intelligence Studies, Williams College,
Williamstown, MA, April 11-12, 2008.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Warring Tribes Studying War and Peace,” Naval Postgraduate School, November 2016.
“Two Kinds of Catastrophe: Nuclear Weapons and Conventional War in Asia”
Naval Postgraduate School, November 2016.
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, June 2016.
MIT Security Studies Program, November 2015.
ISSS/ISAC, Springfield, MA, October 2015.
University of Indiana, Center on American and Global Security, September 2015.
American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 2015.
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RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, January 2015.
“Intelligence-Policy Relations and India’s Nuclear Program: 1958-1998”
American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2016.
Nuclear Proliferation Education Center, Washington, D.C., July 2015; November 2015;
April 2016.
ISSS/ISAC, Springfield, MA, October 2015.
“Cyber and Conflict: Transformative Change or Status Quo Dynamics?” (roundtable), American
Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2016.
“Intelligence and the Iraq War Revisited: The Chilcot Report”
SMU Tower Center, August 2016.
SMU-in-Oxford Program, University College, Oxford, UK, July 2016.
“Grand Strategy, Asian Security, and the U.S. Presidential Election,” Keio University, Tokyo,
Japan, June 2016.
“Strategy and Security in East Asia,” Peking University, Beijing, China, May 2016.
“Does the Internet Need a Hegemon?”
Harvard University, Belfer Center, March 2016.
International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, March 2016.
International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 2015.
“National Security in the Next Administration”
Rockwell Collins Leadership Association, Dallas, TX, February 2016.
Dallas Women’s Club, January 2016.
Carleton University/National Defence/CSIS, Ottawa, December 2015.
"Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence"
92nd Street Y, New York City, February 2016.
Denver Council on Foreign Relations, January 2016.
Mershon Center, Ohio State University, November 2013.
Southern Methodist University, Tower Center, March 2013
Naval War College, Newport, RI, March 2013
Rhode Island Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, March 2013.
World Affairs Council of Northwestern Michigan, February 2013.
8 Bells Lecture, Naval War College Museum, December 2012.
International Association for Intelligence Education, May 2012.
University of Ottawa, Centre for International Policy Studies, April 2012.
Boston College, Clough Center and Dept. of Political Science, February 2012.
University of Texas, Strauss Center, October 2011.
Cato Institute, October 2011.
American Political Science Association, September 2011.
Princeton University, Center for International Security Studies, April 2011.
MIT Lincoln Laboratories, May 2011.
Syracuse University, Maxwell School, December 2010.
“Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Middle East”
University of Denver, Korbel School, January 2016.
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World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth, January 2016.
“Hegemony, Force Posture, and the Provision of Public Goods: The Once and Future Role of
Outside Powers in Securing Persian Gulf Oil”
ISSS/ISAC, Austin, TX, November 2014.
American Political Science Association, August 2014.
SMU Tower Center, October 2013.
ISSS/ISAC, Washington, DC, October 2013.
“Grand Strategy after the Cold War,” Gilder Lehman Institute, Dallas, TX, July 2015.
“Privacy in Free Society,” (symposium participant), Liberty Fund, Washington, D.C., May 2015.
“Strategy, Grand Strategy, and the Vietnam War,” International Studies Association, New
Orleans, LA, February 2015.
“Cross-Domain Deterrence and the Peloponnesian War”
UC San Diego, November 2014.
ISSS/ISAC, Austin, TX, November 2014.
American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 2014.
“America Abroad: Examining U.S. Foreign Policy and Current World Crises”
Hatton Sumners Foundation, Dallas, TX, November 2014.
Political Science Symposium, SMU, September 2014.
“The Way Forward: Reform and the Future of Intelligence,” University of Texas, October 2014.
“Debating the Obama Administration’s Foreign Policy,” Alexander Hamilton Society, SMU,
October 2014.
“Cybercrime and Cyberattacks,” North Texas Crime Commission Cybercrime Summit, Dallas,
TX, October 2014.
“The Heroes of COIN”
TEDxSMU, April 2014.
U.S. Air War College, October 2013.
ISA-New England, Providence, RI, November 2011.
International Studies Association, March 2011.
“Intelligence in the Twitter Age”
International Studies Association, March 2014.
American Political Science Association, August-September 2012.
International Studies Association, April 2012.
“Strategy and SIGINT: Putting the NSA Controversy in Context,” SMU Tower Center,
November 2013.
“Air Sea Battle and the Danger of Nuclear Escalation,” Alexander Hamilton Society,
Washington, D.C., November 2013.
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"Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence," Mershon Center, Ohio State
University, November 2013.
“Why American Foreign Policy Should Not Promote International Religious Freedom,”
Alexander Hamilton Society, University of Dallas, November 2013.
“Diplomacy, Alliances and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the
September 11th Era” (workshop participant), Clements Center, University of Texas, November
2013.
“Delusion of Defeat: The United States and Iraq, 1990-1998,” ISSS/ISAC, Washington, DC,
October 2013.
“New Approaches to Intelligence Analysis,” (panel chair and discussant), ISSS/ISAC,
Washington, DC, October 2013.
"Nuclear Scholars Research Initiative Workshop," (workshop participant), Woodrow Wilson
Center/University of Texas joint conference, October 2013.
"Intelligence and the 'Surge' in Iraq," American Political Science Association, August-September
2013.
“After Proliferation: Deterrence Theory and Emerging Nuclear Powers”
MIT Lincoln Laboratories, May 2013.
International Studies Association, March 2013.
ISSS/ISAC, October 2009.
American Political Science Association, September 2009.
"Carnegie Cult of the Irrelevant Project: Meeting #1,” (workshop participant), Carnegie
Corporation/University of Notre Dame/University of Texas joint conference, February 2013.
“Security and Stability in the Gulf: Is a Hegemon Required?” George Washington University,
Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, December 2012.
“Comments on U.S. Policy during the Nixon-Kissinger Era,” Triangle Institute for Security
Studies, Duke University, November 2012.
“Deterring a Nuclear Iran: Two Scenarios”
George Washington University, Inst. for Security and Conflict Studies, September 2012.
Defense Intelligence Agency, June 2012.
Cato Institute, March 2012.
ISA-New England, November 2011.
ISSS/ISAC, October 2010.
“If not COIN, What?” University of Texas, Strauss Center for Law and Diplomacy, June 2012.
“Calibrated Deterrence and the Navy,” Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, May 2012.
“Deterrence in an Era of Parity,” State Department/Williams College joint conference on foreign
policy in the Nixon administration, March 2012.
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“Three Questions about Strategy,” Escuela de Inteligencia y Contrainteligencia, Bogota,
Colombia, February 2012.
“Three Questions about Intelligence,” Escuela de Inteligencia y Contrainteligencia, Bogota,
Colombia, February 2012.
“AirSea Battle and Escalation Risks,” University of California Institute on Global Conflict, UC
San Diego, September 2011.
“Evaluating Intelligence Reform,” (roundtable), American Political Science Association,
September 2011.
“Dominoes on the Durand Line? Overcoming Strategic Myths in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Cato
Institute, June 2011.
“Is Politicization ever a Good Thing?” International Studies Association, March 2011.
“Public Opinion and Strategic Choice in War,” (panel chair and organizer), American Political
Science Association, September 2010.
“Intelligence, Policy, and Public Opinion in the Vietnam War,” American Political Science
Association, September 2010.
“Comments on Competitive Strategies in History,” Developing Competitive Strategies
conference, U.S. Naval War College, August 2010.
“Neoclassical Realism and Intelligence,” International Studies Association, February 2010.
“International Relations Theory and Intelligence Studies” (panel chair and organizer),
International Studies Association, February 2010.
“Politically Biased Intelligence: Causes and Consequences,” International Studies Association,
February 2009.
“Intelligence and Strategy in the Vietnam War: Two Episodes,” U.S. Naval War College, June
2008.
“Pathologies of Intelligence Producer-Consumer Relations,” International Studies Association,
March 2008.
“Intelligence-Policy Relations and the Problem of Politicization,” Naval Postgraduate School,
January 2008.
“Intelligence-Policy Relations and the War in Iraq,” University of South Carolina, December
2007.
“Is War between China and the U.S. Inevitable?” Williams College, International Studies
Colloquium, September 2007.
“What will it take to Save Darfur?” Williams College, International Studies Colloquium, April
2007.
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FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2014
NSF Award #SES-1444863, “Exploring Trade-offs in Cyber Offense and
Defense Through the Lenses of Computer and Political Science,” co-PI,
$210,506
2013
Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center, Ohio State University
2012
ISSS Best Book Award, International Studies Association
2008
Lucian Pye Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Political Science, MIT
2006-2008
Stanley Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellowship, Williams College
2006
Moody grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation
2001
Research grant, Bradley Institute for the Study of Politics, Boston College
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-chair, Editorial Board: H-Diplo/ISSF, 2016Associate Editor: H-Diplo/ISSF, 2016Reviews Editor: The Journal of Strategic Studies, 2009Board Memberships: Executive Board, International Security and Arms Control Section
(APSA), 2014-2017; Board, JNO. E. Owens Memorial Foundation, 2015Member: American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Dallas
Committee on Foreign Relations
Chair: Kenneth N. Waltz Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation in International Security (APSA),
2011-2014
PhD Advising: Matteo Faini (Princeton University)
Faculty Advisor: Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Capstone
Program, 2013; Tower Center Student Forum, 2015-1016, Alexander Hamilton Society of SMU,
2013-2015
Referee: International Security, Security Studies, The Journal of Strategic Studies, International
Studies Quarterly, International Studies Perspectives, World Politics, Intelligence and National
Security, Political Psychology, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Terrorism and Political Violence,
Journal of Global Security Studies, Naval War College Review, International Relations of the
Asia-Pacific, Cornell University Press, Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press,
Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Polity Press, International Studies
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Association Compendium Project, Kenneth N. Waltz Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation in
International Security (APSA), Grawemeyer Book Award.
University committees: The Jack C. and Annette K. Vaughn Foreign Service and International
Affairs Internship selection committee, 2013- , The Colin Powell Faculty Fellowship Committee,
2014- , Tower Center Postdoctoral Fellow Selection Committee (chair), 2013- , Tower Center
Latino Politics Postdoctoral Fellow Selection Committee (chair), 2015-. Dedman College Tenure
and Promotion Committee, 2014- . Tower Center Faculty Advisory Board, 2013-, Tower Scholars
Faculty Advisory Board, 2015-.
REFERENCES
Barry R. Posen
Ford Professor of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Director, MIT Security Studies Program
Office: 617-253-8088
Email: [email protected]
Francis J. Gavin
Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies
Professor of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Office: (617) 253-1825
Email: [email protected]
James McAllister
Professor of Political Science
Director, Kaplan Program in Foreign Policy
Williams College
Office: 413-597-2572
Email: [email protected]
Richard K. Betts
Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies and Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and
Peace Studies
Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Columbia University
Office: (212) 854-7325
Email: [email protected]
Timothy Hoyt
John N. Brown Chair in Counterterrorism
Professor of Strategy and Policy
U.S. Naval War College
Office: (401) 841-7331
Email: [email protected]
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