Joshua Rovner

Joshua Rovner is an associate professor of international relations at American University, and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. His books include Strategy and Grand Strategy (IISS, Adelphi Series, 2025); and Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell University Press, 2011), which won the International Studies Association best book award for security studies and the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award. Rovner is also co-editor of Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the 21st Century (Columbia University Press, 2018); and Chaos Reconsidered: The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics(Columbia University Press, 2023). Rovner previously held the John Tower Goodwin Distinguished Chair in National Security and International Politics at SMU, and served as associate professor of Strategy & Policy at the U.S. Naval War College. In 2018-2019, he served as scholar-in-residence at the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command.