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Our regular columnists cover international relations and U.S. foreign policy, with occasional roundtables on key events bringing in top experts to offer multiple perspectives. Our Scouted series features guest posts and podcasts that spotlight cutting-edge research shaping the field.
Who are we?
Dan Byman is a professor at Georgetown and a senior fellow at CSIS. He is also part of the Lawfare team and advises the State Department, exerting the tremendous influence typical of outside experts called in to advise the government. Dan writes on (too) many things: the most common are terrorism and counterterrorism, Middle East security, and on the intersection of social media and national security. When not scribbling or opining, Dan reads novels, serves his ill-disciplined goldendoodles, and acts as a poster child for why middle aged men should not wear lycra, even when they bike.
Jonathan Kirshner is a professor at Boston College, following a quarter century at Cornell University, where he coined the catchphrase “I am an Itha-CAN.” His research focuses on international relations (IR) theory, the politics of international money and macroeconomics, and film studies. Avoid at all costs getting trapped in an elevator with him, unless you are eager to hear cascading monologues about Classical Realism, the vital distinctions between Keynes and Keynesianism, and old, slow moving films that you never heard of and aren’t available to stream.
Jennifer Lind is a professor at Dartmouth. Her research focuses on the IR of East Asia, China’s rise to great power, and US foreign policy toward the region. Jennifer and her also-a-political-scientist husband spend a lot of time walking their Rhodesian Ridgebacks in the NH/VT woods. People walking past the couple overhear spirited discussion about Chinese power, the future of NATO, nuclear proliferation, as well as speculation about what Archie is currently rolling in.
Jeremy Shapiro researches and writes about US foreign policy and Europe from his home at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He previously worked at Brookings and for the US State Department on the Policy Planning staff. Jeremy’s fresh takes occasionally shade into the cheeky or just the obscure yet he somehow convinces editors to go along. (Jennifer: what’s your secret?) Jeremy worked for ECFR in London and Berlin for several years and now runs its office in DC. In his spare time, Jeremy likes to wonder why he has no hobbies. He also enjoys crossing the street while looking at his phone, as well as many other adventure sports.
left to right: Byman; two people who are not Jonathan Kirshner; Lind; Shapiro
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