Michael Mazarr

Michael Mazarr is a senior fellow in the Technology and International Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Prior to coming to Carnegie, Mazarr was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he conducted studies on a wide range of strategic and military operational issues, from U.S.-China competition to deterrence and escalation to U.S. force posture in key regions to the societal foundations of national competitive advantage.

He has served as special assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, president and CEO of the Henry L. Stimson Center, senior vice president for strategic planning at the Electronic Industries Alliance, legislative assistant and political speechwriter in the U.S. House of Representatives, and senior fellow and editor of The Washington Quarterly at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before his time at RAND Mazarr served as professor of national security strategy and associate dean at the U.S. National War College in Washington, D.C. Earlier in his career he served as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He holds AB and MA degrees from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs.