Profile
At the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs my research focuses functionally on international security and regionally on NATO, Europe and Russia. Trained at the London School of Economics & Political Science, I take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of international society. I am particularly interested in the relationship between society and the military, and in how societies wage war. I have two projects under way. I’m currently completing a textbook on international security for Cambridge University Press. I am also writing a book on strategic planning and civil-military relations in NATO. I am currently co-editor of International Politics. I previously co-edited Millennium: Journal of International Studies at LSE.
Academic Experience
New York University
Director of International Relations
Clinical Professor
August 2014-August 2020
University of London
Reader in International Relations
August 2008-August 2014
Wesleyan University
Visiting Professor
August 2011-August 2012
University of Oxford
Visiting Scholar, Nuffield College
August 2010-January 2011
Royal United Services Institute
Director, Transatlantic Security
January 2006-August 2008
University of Oxford, CCW
Program Officer
September 2004 -December 2005
Education
Ph.D. in International Relations
London School of Economics
September 2006
B.A. in International Relations
University of Delaware
May 2002
M.A. in European History
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
October 2003
Pg.Cert. in Higher Education
Royal Holloway, University of London
September 2009
Affiliations
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Atlantic Council of the United States
Washington D.C.
Program Associate
London School of Economics, IDEAS!
London, England
NATO Fulbright Fellow
CSDS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium
Editorial Board Member
European Journal of Int'l Security
Cambridge University
Fellow, Global Diplomacy Lab
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Berlin, Germany
Research Funding
German Academic Exchange Service
Robert Bosch Foundation
UK National Priorities Grant
UL Development Grant
Duke of Westminster Foundation
George C. Marshall Foundation
St. Catherine’s Foundation
Carnegie Corporation
“ Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.”