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Lindsay P. Cohn, Ph.D.

Professor National Security Affairs
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Biography

Dr. Cohn teaches International Security, Foreign Policy, Strategy, and Civil-military Relations. Her research and publications focus on military organizations, civil-military relations, international law of war, militarized policing, and foreign policy/public opinion. She spent a year at the Pentagon in the office of Special Operations and Combatting Terrorism, and has spent time at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the Bundeswehr’ SOWI, the Free University Berlin, and Harvard's Olin Institute. She serves on the board of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society and the editorial board of the journal Armed Forces and Society.

Contact Information

(401) 856-5327

Areas of Expertise

  • Civil-Military Relations
  • COIN
  • Economics
  • Ethics
  • Europe
  • Foreign Policy
  • International Law
  • NATO
  • Terrorism

Professional Highlights

2025

Professor - US Naval War College, Newport, RI

Promoted to Full Professor
2019

Awarded Tenure under new tenure system

2017

Associate Professor - US Naval War College, Newport, RI

Promoted to Associate Faculty exchange with Strategy & Policy - taught senior class S&PTook on role of course-wide session coordinator
2014

Senior Assistant Professor - US Naval War College, Newport, RI

Joined National Security Affairs DepartmentTeach Policy Analysis, Strategy, Civil-Military Relations
2013

Assistant to DASD for Special Operations and Combatting Terrorism - DOD, Washington, DC

Spent one year at the Pentagon on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. Action officer for Section 1206 Global Train and Equip Program (now Section 2282 USC 10) for CENTCOM and EUCOMWomen in the Services Review for Special Operations Community
2009

Assistant Professor - University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Joined the Political Science DepartmentTaught International Relations, International Security, US Foreign Policy, Terrorism and Insurgency, Politics of the Middle East, and several Honors seminarsCo-Chaired the Center for International Peace and Security StudiesVeteran Student Services Committee
2008

Policy Research Associate - Center for Transatlantic Relations, Washington, DC

Post-doctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Transatlantic RelationsPolicy research and writing
2007

Policy Research Associate - Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, GER

Post-doctoral fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und PolitikPolicy research and writing
2007

PhD - Duke University, Durham, NC

Successfully defended dissertation "Who Will Serve: Education, Labor Markets, and Military Personnel Policy" to committee of Peter D. Feaver, David Soskice, Chris Gelpi, Alex Downes, and Tim Buethe, all of Duke University
2006

Pre-Doctoral Fellow - Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Dissertation research and writing

Education

Ph.D., Duke University, 2007, Political Science (International Relations/Political Theory)

M.A., Duke University, 2006, Political Science

B.A., Duke University, 1999, Political Science (minors: History and Medieval/Renaissance Studies; certificate: Linguistics)

Certificate , University College, 1998, Cork, Celtic Civilization (Irish language, history, literature, archaeology)

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Research Contributions and Publications

Publications by this Professor

Awards and Decorations

Meritorious Civilian Service Award from the Department of the Navy, for her work as NSA Final Exercise Director

Commander’s Award for Public Service from the Department of the Army, for her work with UNI ROTC cadets preparing to deploy to Afghanistan

Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, for her work on Building Partner Capacity programs at SOLIC/SOCT

External Memberships and Associations

American Political Science Association (APSA)

International Security and Arms Control (ISAC)
Section 19

International Studies Association (ISA)

Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)

Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS-AFS)

European Research Group on the Military and Society (ERGOMAS)

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