Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International

Edo denizen Blue Ridge raised. UNC / 関西外国語大学 / Fletcher School Early onset curmudgeon 忙中閑あり

Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at the Atlantic, reviews books for Foreign Affairs. https://www.a

Cognitive psychologist | Wittenberg University Cog/neuro/science, gender, race, 🎵, 🇵🇱 US Fulbright Scholar '10-'11 | Witt in Poland '13, '18 | Fulbright-Hays

PhD, Associate Professor in Poli Sci, interested in political systems of the Global South, increasingly concerned about democratic backsliding in my own country