Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, and an affiliate with Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her career also includes six years as an Air Force Officer in South Korea and Japan. Her research now focuses on the intersection of technology, national security, and political psychology with a special interest in cyber, unmanned technologies, and Northeast Asia.
Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, and an affiliate with Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Naval War College as well as a senior policy advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
She is an active member of the defense policy community with adjunct positions at the Center for a New American Security and previously at the RAND Corporation.
Before beginning her academic career, she spent six years as an Air Force Officer in South Korea and Japan and is currently a reservist assigned to U.S. Cyber Command.
Her research focuses on the intersection of technology, national security, and political psychology with a special interest in cybersecurity, autonomous technologies, wargames, and Northeast Asia.
Her work has appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and Strategic Studies Quarterly, and online at Foreign Affairs, Cipher Brief, War on the Rocks, The Washington Post, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The National Interest, and The Center for a New American Security. Dr. Schneider was a 2020 winner of the Perry World House-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize
She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at George Washington University, and her M.A. at Arizona State University. She received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University.
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A Strategic Cyber No-First-Use Policy? Addressing the US Cyber Strategy Problem
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“Training the Military for the Next War”
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