Dr Joshua Shifrinson

Dr Joshua Shifrinson is an Associate Professor of International Policy with the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and a Non-Resident Senior Foreign Policy Fellow with the Cato Institute. A graduate of Brandeis University (BA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD), Shifrinson’s research focuses on great power politics, international security, and US foreign policy. The author of Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts and co-editor of Evaluating NATO Enlargement, his research has also appeared with Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, International Security, and other venues. Shifrinson is currently working on a book investigating when and why grand strategy goes awry, with heavy emphasis on post-Cold War US policy toward NATO.