Past Event
Director Series

“Why Limited Force Rarely Works,” a Belfer Center Directors' Seminar with Micah Zenko

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Directors' Seminar with Micah Zenko, Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations.

About

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Micah Zenko is a fellow for conflict prevention in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he worked for five years at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center in a number of research positions, and in Washington, D.C., at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, and State Department's Office of Policy Planning.

Dr. Zenko has published on a range of national security issues, including articles in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Parameters, Defense and Security Analysis, and Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and op-eds in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Boston Globe.

In October 2009, he and CPA director Paul Stares published a Council Special Report (CSR), “Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action,” which analyzes U.S. government capacity for different types of preventive action. Currently, he is completing a CSR that assesses deep cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons.

Dr. Zenko received a PhD in political science from Brandeis University. His book, Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World, was published by Stanford University Press in August 2010.

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As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.

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