A Deal Won’t Forge a Two-State Solution or Push China Out of the Middle East.
Jennifer Kavanagh is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Jennifer Kavanagh was a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A political scientist by training, she has spent her career studying national security threats and their consequences for U.S. foreign policy and defense strategy.
At Carnegie, Jennifer’s research focuses on U.S. defense and military strategy in Asia and the Middle East. In particular, her work examines U.S. military interventions and commitments, alliances and coalition building, and force posture and deterrence.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Kavanagh was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where she led projects focused on deterrence, military interventions, and U.S. military posture for defense and national security clients. She was most recently director of the Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program in RAND’s Arroyo Center, which supports the U.S. Army. Kavanagh also co-authored Truth Decay: An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life, and co-founded and led RAND’s Countering Truth Decay Initiative, a portfolio of projects focused on polarization, disinformation, and civic development in the United States.
Kavanagh received an AB in government from Harvard University and a PhD in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan. She is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.
A Deal Won’t Forge a Two-State Solution or Push China Out of the Middle East.
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