Fed Event: CISSM Forum, Feb. 16th, 12:15 PM

CISSM Forum | February 16, 2012

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD
"A Revolution in Intelligence Affairs?"
William J. Lahneman, Assistant Professor, Towson University

William J. Lahneman is an assistant professor of Political Science at Towson University, Towson, MD. He also is a senior research scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), an M.A. in National Security Affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy.

Lahneman has held academic positions as associate director for programs at CISSM, where he conducted several research projects for different parts of the US intelligence community, and as associate chair of the Political Science Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. A former career naval officer, Commander Lahneman, U.S. Navy (retired) was a surface warfare officer with specializations in strategic planning, international negotiations, and nuclear propulsion. Lahneman’s research interests include military intervention and nation building, the future of intelligence analysis, homeland security, and international relations theory.

In 2008, he received one of the Smith Richardson Foundation’s International Security and Foreign Policy Junior Faculty Research Grants for his book project Keeping U.S. Intelligence Effective: The Need for a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs, which was published by Scarecrow Press in March 2011. Other publications include Military Intervention: Cases in Context for the Twenty-first Century (ed.) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); “Estimating Iraqi WMDs: A Simulation” in Simulation and Gaming (with Hugo Keesing) (2009); and “The Need for a New Intelligence Paradigm” in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (2010). He is currently editing (with Joseph Rudolph) From Mediation to Nation Building: Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflicts (Lexington Press, forthcoming late 2012).