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Micah Zenko is an American political scientist. He is Whitehead Senior Fellow on the US and Americas Programme at Chatham House. He is author of two books.

Education

Micah Zenko earned a PhD from the Department of Politics at Brandeis University in 2009.WEB, DEPARTMENT NEWS,www.brandeis.edu/departments/politics/news/index.html, Department of Politics, Brandeis University, August 1, 2017,

Career

Zenko worked at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs from 2003 to 2008,WEB, Micah Zenko,www.cfr.org/experts/micah-zenko, Council on Foreign Relations, August 1, 2017, first as a research assistant to Graham T. Allison from 2003 to 2006, and a research associate on the Project on Managing The Atom from 2006 to 2008.WEB, Micah Zenko,www.belfercenter.org/person/micah-zenko, Belfer Center, Harvard University, August 1, 2017, He also worked at the Brookings Institution, the Congressional Research Service, and United States Department of State’s Office of Policy Planning. He was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations until 2017. He has published articles in The Atlantic,WEB, MICAH ZENKO,www.theatlantic.com/author/micah-zenko/, The Atlantic, August 1, 2017, The Guardian,WEB, Micah Zenko,www.theguardian.com/profile/micah-zenko, The Guardian, August 1, 2017, Foreign Policy,WEB, Micah Zenko,foreignpolicy.com/author/micah-zenko/, Foreign Policy, August 1, 2017, and Business Insider.WEB, Micah Zenko,uk.businessinsider.com/author/micah-zenko, Business Insider, August 1, 2017, Zenko has authored two books. His first book, Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World, was published in 2010. In a review for the Journal of Peace Research, Mark Naftalin criticized Zenko for leaving out an “analysis and contextualization of concepts, threats and legal and technological frameworks”, adding that there was a “lack of rigorous detail in each of the author’s policy recommendations.“JOURNAL, Naftalin, Mark, Review: Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World by Micah Zenko, Journal of Peace Research, July 2012, 49, 4, 624, 41721624, Zenko’s second book, Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy, was published in 2015. A review in The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada wrote that “Zenko offers a compelling argument for forcing ourselves to think differently, which is ultimately the main purpose of a red team.“NEWS, Lozada, Carlos, How to anticipate unthinkable terrorist attacks? Hire oddballs to think of them.,www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2015/11/19/how-to-anticipate-unthinkable-terrorist-attacks-hire-oddballs-to-think-of-them/, August 1, 2017, The Washington Post, November 19, 2015,

Works

• BOOK, Zenko, Micah, Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World, 2010, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 9780804771900, 762141624,
• BOOK, Zenko, Micah, Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy, 2015, Basic Books, New York, 9780465073955, 927108312,
• BOOK, Zenko, Micah, Cohen, Michael, Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans, 2019, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 9780300222555,

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