About Brendan Green

Visiting Fellow

Brendan Green is assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati. His interests include: U.S. foreign policy, liberalism and world politics, military doctrine, the role of ideas in international politics, and diplomatic and military history. He is editor and a coauthor, with Harvey Sapolsky and Benjamin H. Friedman, of U.S. Military Innovation since the Cold War: Creation Without Destruction (Routledge 2009). He has been selected for several honors and awards, including a Miller Center Fellowship in American Politics, Foreign Policy, and World Politics at the University of Virginia and a Belfer Center Fellowship in International Security Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He also has consulted for the RAND Corporation on counter-insurgency. Green hails from Akron, Ohio, and holds an A.B. in political science from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a fan of political science, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Cleveland Indians, and lost causes.