Dr Emily Whalen

Previously, she was a visiting scholar at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and a Non-Resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Whalen has held fellowships at the Clements Center for National Security, Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Yale University’s International Security Studies Program. She was an affiliated scholar at the American University of Beirut’s Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies.

Prior to completing her PhD, Whalen worked as a historical consultant for the EastWest Institute, an international, non-governmental think-tank specialising in Track-II diplomacy. Her writing appears in several online publications, including the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Foreign Policy, Task and Purpose, Lawfare, H-Diplo, and Engelsberg Ideas. Her first book, on U.S. intervention in the Lebanese civil war, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.