Welcome
I am an Assistant Professor of Security Studies in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, where my research spans international security and US foreign policy, with an emphasis on the ways that powerful states try to shape their security environments.
My research agenda encompasses three strands: security cooperation, the political economy of power projection, and great power competition in contemporary international politics. My book project examines the effectiveness of security assistance as a tool of influence in US foreign policy. In other projects, I consider questions of power, influence, and the military, economic, and ideological tools that states use to build order and compete with each other. To address these questions, I use mixed methods, including survey experiments, interviews, statistical analysis, and archival research.
My work is published or forthcoming in International Security, Perspectives on Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Political Science Quarterly, and policy outlets including The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, Lawfare, Inkstick, and PRISM. My research has been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Charles Koch Foundation, and the Eisenhower Institute.
I am a research affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program, an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation, and an external advisor for the US Institute of Peace’s Security Sector Governance and Reform Program. Previously, I was an assistant professor of politics at Brandeis University. I have also previously held fellowships with the Irregular Warfare Initiative, a jointly sponsored program between the Modern War Institute at West Point and the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, Harvard Kennedy School’s International Security Program and MIT’s Security Studies Program, and George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies.
I received a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 2020. Before academia, I was an analyst in the Department of Defense.
Contact:
Email: rj602 (at) georgetown (dot) edu Twitter: @RenanahJoyce