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Institutional
Affiliations
Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies: Director, Center for
Strategic Studies (1)
Project
for the New American Century: Has signed at least a half
a dozen PNAC letters and participated and collaborated on the group’s
“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” report (6)
Committee
for the Liberation of Iraq: Member
American
Enterprise Institute:
Member of Council of Academic Advisers
Naval
War College:
Member, Strategy Department, 1985 (2)
Harvard
College:
Assistant Professor of Government and Assistant Dean, 1982-1985
(2)
American Committee for Peace in Chechnya:
Member
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
Defense
Policy Board: Member (2)
Gulf
War Air Power Survey: Director
and Editor, 1991-1993 (2)
Office
of the Secretary of Defense: Policy
Planning Staff, 1990 (2)
Department
of Defense: Director,
National Security Leadership Course (3)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Strategic
Education Associates, LLC: Owner (3)
Education
Harvard
University:
Ph.D. in Political Science, 1982 (2)
Harvard College:
B.A. in Government-Political Science, 1977 (2)
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Highlights
& Quotes
Eliot
Cohen, called by one observer “the most influential neocon
in academe,” is a well-known scholar of military affairs based
at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),
which has served as a base for a number of prominent neoconservatives,
including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz and political scientist Francis
Fukuyama. Cohen heads SAIS's Center for Strategic Studies, a
program founded in 2003 with a generous grant from Philip
Merrill, a minor media mogul who heads the U.S. Ex-Im Bank and
serves as an adviser to the hawkish Center
for Security Policy. Cohen is famous for his thesis that the
war on terror constitutes World War IV, and that the Cold War should
really be considered World War III. (5)
Cohen
has been affiliated with a number of hawkish advocacy groups, including
the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and the Project for the
New American Century. He also serves on the Defense Policy Board,
the Pentagon’s in-house think tank, which has been heavily
criticized for members’ conflicts of interests and for its
stilted ideological profile. (Nearly a third of the board members
come from the staunchly conservative Hoover Institution.)
Cohen
is the author of Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership
in Wartime, 2002, which George W. Bush reportedly read in preparation
for the invasion of Iraq; Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure
in War, 1990; and Citizens and Soldiers, 1985. (2)
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