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Joshua Rovner
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
jr3159@columbia.edu
Biography:
Joshua Rovner is Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College, where he lectures on intelligence, nuclear weapons, foreign policy, and strategy. He previously taught at Williams College, Clark University, and Holy Cross. Rovner is also the reviews editor for the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Rovner is the author of Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell University Press, 2011), which won the International Studies Association Best Book Award for security studies. Other recent publications include “The Heroes of COIN,” Orbis, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Spring 2012), pp. 215-232; “After Proliferation: Deterrence Theory and Emerging Nuclear Powers,” in Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, eds., Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age: Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2012); “Is Politicization Ever a Good Thing?” Intelligence and National Security (forthcoming in 2013); “Intelligence in the Twitter Age,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (forthcoming in 2013); and “Strategy,” a keynote essay in Timothy J. Lynch, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2013).
Rovner holds a BA from the University of California, San Diego, an MA from Boston College, and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also completed a Stanley Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Foreign Policy at Williams College.