Joshua Rovner
Associate Editor
Joshua Rovner is an associate professor in the School of International Studies at American University, where he teaches courses on strategy, intelligence, and international affairs. He is the author of 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. He also is co-editor of Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the 21st Century (Columbia University Press, 2018); and The Liberal Order Strikes Back? Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the Future of International Politics (Columbia University Press, forthcoming). In addition to his academic work, Rovner writes a regular column at War on the Rocks. In 2018-2019, he served as scholar-in-residence at the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command.
Author's Articles
Remembering Robert Jervis
In this roundtable, our contributors look back on the life and work of Robert Jervis. A towering figure in international relations, Jervis made crucial contributions to multiple academic fields as well as the U.S. government. He is remembered for his scholarly…
Policy Roundtable: Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest
In this policy roundtable, part of our special issue on cyber competition, the panelists explore whether cyber conflict might better be understood as a form of intelligence competition.
Book Review Roundtable: Nuclear Spies
1. Introduction: Scientific Expertise, Bureaucratic Politics, and Nuclear Intelligence Galen Jackson In The Nuclear Spies: America’s Atomic Intelligence Operation Against Hitler and Stalin, Vince Houghton seeks to explain why the United States succeeded in…