Professor Joshua Rovner, John Goodwin Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security, Department of Political Science, Southern Methodist University, will be speaking tot he NSA Department on 7 November 2016. His talk is titled "Two Kinds of Catastrophe: Nuclear Escalation and Protracted War in Asia." Professor Rovner earned his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008. He has taught at Clark University, the College of the Holy Cross, Williams College, Columbia University, and the U.S. Naval War College. His first book, Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2011) won the ISSS Best Book Award. He has published widely on international relations and national security with numerous articles on intelligence, counter-insurgency, strategy, and grand strategy.

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