Micah Zenko | |
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![]() Zenko in 2013 | |
Alma mater | Brandeis University |
Occupation | Political scientist |
Known for | Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations |
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.
Micah Zenko earned a PhD from the Department of Politics at Brandeis University in 2009. [1]
Zenko worked at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs from 2003 to 2008, [2] 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. [3] He also worked at the Brookings Institution, the Congressional Research Service, and United States Department of State's Office of Policy Planning. [2] He was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations until 2017. [2] He has published articles in The Atlantic , [4] The Guardian , [5] Foreign Policy , [6] and Business Insider . [7]
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." [8] 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." [9]