Education
And Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 and 1981 respectively.
director International Professor
And Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 and 1981 respectively.
Posen received his Bachelor of Arts from Occidental College in 1974 and his Master of Arts Posen worked as a consultant for the Research and Development Corporation and an analyst for the Department of Defense and Center for Strategic and International Studies before becoming an assistant professor of political science at Princeton University in 1984. In 1987, he joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as associate professor of political science and has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since that time. He has also served as a consultant to the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Christian Science Monitor and the MacArthur Foundation.
Posen is the author of three books
Posen has also published a number of highly influential journal articles, including "The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict" and "Command of the Commons: The Military Foundations of United States. Hegemony." In addition to his scholarly work, Posen has frequently appeared in the media and published general interest articles in publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The American Interest.
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Publications The Sources of Military Doctrine Posen's first book, The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars, was published by Cornell University Press in 1984. The Sources of Military Doctrine focuses on how military doctrine is formed and how it shapes grand strategy. The book won the 1984 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award from the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the 1985 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, given annually by the American Political Science Association to the "best book on government, politics or international affairs."
Inadvertent Escalation Posen's second book is Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks, which was published by Cornell University Press in 1991.
Restraint Posen's third book is Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, which was published as part of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs series in 2014.
The book is about two competing American grand strategies: liberal hegemony (which Posen opposes) and restraint (which Posen supports). Restraint contains Posen's critique of liberal hegemony and his explanation for why restraint is a superior grand strategy.
Reviewer William Ruger, writing in The American Conservative, called the book the "defining treatise" for supporters of restraint.
An expert in the field of security studies, he currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals International Security and Security Studies and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as a study group member for the Hart-Rudman Commission.