Risa Brooks

Dr. Risa Brooks is Allis-Chalmers Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA, a non-resident fellow in the Future Security program at New America and non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She is the author of Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment (Princeton University Press),  co-editor (with Elizabeth Stanley) of Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness (Stanford University Press), and co-editor (with Lionel Beehner and Daniel Maurer) of Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: Politics, Society and Modern War (Oxford University Press). Her research and commentaries have appeared in publications such as Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The New York Times and in numerous academic journals. Brooks received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, and formerly held positions as research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, U.K. and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her primary research interests include U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, strategic assessment and military professionalism.