Jeremy Shapiro is a research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he was special advisor to the assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia at the

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. Prior to his appointment he was director of research at the "Center on the

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and

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" at the

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. His expertise is in the fields of Civil-military relations, Europe,

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, military operations,

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and transatlantic

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. He was a Ph.D. candidate at the

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, after receiving his

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from

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School of Advanced

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in 1994. He graduated from

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in 1989. He previously worked in varied fields including

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, and was a political and security analyst for

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and a research associate at

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. Shapiro works as an adjunct professor for the Security Studies Program at

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. Shapiro is originally from Massachusetts.

Selected publications

*France and the GIA, Democracies and Counter-terrorism, Robert Art and

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, eds. (United States Institute of Peace, forthcoming 2004) *Allies at War: America, Europe and the Crisis Over Iraq, with Philip Gordon (McGraw-Hill, 2004) *A Vision not a Policy: Bush Administration Views on the Franco-German Couple, A View from Outside, Matt Browne et al. (Notre Europe, 2004) *French Lessons: The Importance of the Judicial System in Fighting Terrorism, U.S.-France Analysis (March 2003) *The French Experience of Counter-terrorism, with Bénédicte Suzan, Survival (Spring 2003) *The U.S. Can Learn from the French in the War Against Terrorism, EuroTransport Intelligence (5/19/03) *The U.S. Army and the New National Security Strategy, edited with Lynn Davis (RAND, 2003) *The Role of France in the War on Terrorism, U.S.-France Analysis (May 2002) *Strategic Appraisal: U.S. Air and Space Power in the 21st Century, co-editor with Zalmay M. Khalilzad (RAND, 2002) *Do Casualties Drive Policy? Defense News, with Harvey M. Sapolsky (9/27/99) *The Changing Role of Information in Warfare, with Martin Libicki, and "Information and War: Is it a Revolution?" Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information in Warfare, Zalmay M. Khalilzad and John P. White, editors (RAND, 1999) *Innovation in Financial Services Case Study: Home Banking," MIT Industrial Performance Center Working Paper (March 1999) *Military Privatization: The Future of the Force Protection Industry," Breakthroughs (Spring 1998)

References

External links

Video of discussion/debate with Shapiro
and Jacqueline Shire on

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