Director of Research – Foreign Policy
\nDirector – Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
\nCo-Director – Africa Security Initiative
\nSenior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
\nThe Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair
\nPhilip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy<\/p>\n
Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow, and director of research, in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy. He co-directs the Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology; the Defense Industrial Base working group; and the Africa Security Initiative within the Foreign Policy program, as well. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia and Georgetown universities, a professional lecturer at George Washington University, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. O\u2019Hanlon was also a member of the external advisory board at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2011-12.
\nO\u2019Hanlon\u2019s latest books include \u201cThe Senkaku Paradox:\u00a0 Risking Great Power War over Limited Stakes<\/a>\u201d (Brookings Institution Press, 2019); \u201cBeyond NATO: A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe<\/a>\u201d (Brookings Institution Press, 2017); \u201cThe Future of Land Warfare<\/a>\u201d (Brookings Institution Press, 2015); and \u201cStrategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century\u201d (with Jim Steinberg, Princeton University Press, 2014). Previously, he wrote \u201cBending History: Barack Obama\u2019s Foreign Policy<\/a>\u201d (with Martin Indyk and Kenneth Lieberthal, Brookings Institution Press, 2012); \u201cA Skeptic\u2019s Case for Nuclear Disarmament<\/a>\u201d (Brookings Institution Press, 2010); \u201cThe Science of War\u201d (Princeton University Press, 2009); \u201cCrisis on the Korean Peninsula\u201d (with Mike Mochizuki, McGraw-Hill, 2003); \u201cWinning Ugly: NATO\u2019s War to Save Kosovo<\/a>\u201d (with Ivo Daalder, Brookings Institution Press, 2000); and \u201cTechnological Change and the Future of Warfare<\/a>\u201d (Brookings Institution Press, 2000), among other books.
\nO\u2019Hanlon has written several hundred op-eds in newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, USA Today, and Pakistan\u2019s Dawn paper.\u00a0 His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Survival, Washington Quarterly, Joint Forces Quarterly, and International Security, among other publications.\u00a0 O\u2019Hanlon has appeared on television or spoken on the radio some 4,000 times since September 11, 2001.
\nO’Hanlon was an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1989 to 1994. He also worked previously at the Institute for Defense Analyses. His doctorate from Princeton is in public and international affairs; his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, also from Princeton, are in the physical sciences. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Congo\/Kinshasa (the former Zaire) from 1982-84, where he taught college and high school physics in French. Earlier, he worked on a dairy farm in Upstate New York, where he grew up, and attempted (unsuccessfully) with a team of Princeton experimental physicists in the \u201cGravity Group\u201d to disprove Einstein\u2019s General Theory of Relativity.
\nAffiliations:<\/strong>
\nColumbia University, adjunct professor
\nGeorge Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, professional lecturer
\nGeorgetown University, Center for Security Studies, adjunct professor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":462386,"template":"","class_list":["post-460785","expert","type-expert","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert\/460785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expert"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}