Dr. Austin Long is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation and non-resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was previously an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. His research interests include low-intensity conflict, military innovation and the political economy of national security.
Dr. Austin Long is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
He was previously an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Nuclear Security, serving in the Joint Staff Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Policy Division. Prior to that, he was an analyst and advisor to the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
His research interests include low-intensity conflict, intelligence, military operations, nuclear forces, military innovation and the political economy of national security.
Dr. Long’s research has appeared in International Security, Security Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Orbis, and Survival. He is also the author of The Soul of Armies: Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the United States and United Kingdom.
He received his B.S. from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Articles
Russian Nuclear Forces and Prospects for Arms Control
This testimony was presented before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade on June 21, 2018. It provides...