Expertise
Contemporary warfare; foreign policy; national security; peacekeeping; terrorism; U.S. relations with the Islamic world
Background
Current Positions
Senior Fellow and Director, Brookings 21st Century Defense Initiative
Past Positions
Senior Fellow and Director, Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World; Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University; Action Officer, Balkans Task Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Special Assistant, International Peace Academy; Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Duke University Talent Identification Program
Awards
Named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009 by Foreign Policy magazine; Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, named a Book of the Year in 2009 by The Financial Times.
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001; A.B., Princeton University, 1997