Micah Zenko is an American political scientist. He is Whitehead Senior Fellow on the US and Americas Programme at

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. He is author of two books.

Education

Micah Zenko earned a PhD from the Department of Politics at

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in 2009.

Career

Zenko worked at

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from 2003 to 2008, first as a research assistant to Graham T. Allison from 2003 to 2006, and a research associate on the Project on Managing The Atom from 2006 to 2008. He also worked at the

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, the

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, and

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's Office of Policy Planning. He was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations until 2017. He has published articles in ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Foreign Policy'', and ''

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''. Zenko has authored two books. His first book, ''Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World'', was published in 2010. In a review for the ''

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'', Mark Naftalin criticized Zenko for leaving out an "analysis and contextualization of concepts, threats and legal and technological frameworks", adding that there was a "lack of rigorous detail in each of the author's policy recommendations." Zenko's second book, ''Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy'', was published in 2015. A review in ''

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'', Carlos Lozada wrote that "Zenko offers a compelling argument for forcing ourselves to think differently, which is ultimately the main purpose of a red team."

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