Jonathan Renshon
Department of Government
Harvard University
I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where my advisor is Stephen Peter Rosen. My sub-field within the department is International Relations. My particular interests are in national security decision-making, intelligence, foreign policy analysis and political psychology (the study of decision-making, in particular).
I completed my BA in Government at Wesleyan University in May, 2004. In my senior year, I wrote a thesis entitled “The Psychological Motivations for Preventive War,” which received unanimous high honors. That thesis was the basis of my book, Why Leaders Choose War: The Psychology of Prevention (Greenwood, 2006).
I received an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in September, 2005.
In 2008-9, I was a Graduate Fellow at the American Academy of Political and Social Science. I have also been a Graduate Student Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University since 2008. From 2008-2010 I will be a Bradley Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
