Micah Zenko is an American political scientist. He is Whitehead Senior Fellow on the US and Americas Programme at
Chatham House. He is author of two books.
Education
Micah Zenko earned a PhD from the Department of Politics at
Brandeis University in 2009.
Career
Zenko worked at
Harvard University's
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, also known as the Belfer Center, is a research center located within the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, in the United States. From 2017 until his death in Oc ...
from 2003 to 2008,
first as a research assistant to
Graham T. Allison
Graham Tillett Allison Jr. (born March 23, 1940) is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is renowned for his contribution in the late ...
from 2003 to 2006, and a research associate on the Project on Managing The Atom from 2006 to 2008.
He also worked at the
Brookings Institution, the
Congressional Research Service, and
United States Department of State's
Office of Policy Planning The Policy Planning Staff (sometimes referred to as the Policy Planning Council, the Office of Policy Planning or by its in-house acronym S/P) is the principal strategic arm of the United States Department of State. It was created in 1947 by renowne ...
.
He was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations until 2017.
He has published articles in ''
The Atlantic'',
''
The Guardian'',
''
Foreign Policy
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'',
and ''
Business Insider''.
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 ''
Journal of Peace Research'', 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 ''
The Washington Post'',
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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Living people
Brandeis University alumni
American political scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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