John R. Deni

Dr. John R. Deni is a Research Professor of Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM) Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) at the U.S. Army War College, and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. He previously worked for eight years as a political advisor for senior U.S. military commanders in Europe. Prior to that, he spent two years as a strategic planner specializing in U.S. security cooperation and mil-to-mil relations. While working for the U.S. military in Europe, Dr. Deni was also an adjunct lecturer at Heidelberg University’s Institute for Political Science – there, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses on U.S. foreign and security policy, NATO, European security, and alliance theory and practice. Before working overseas, Dr. Deni spent seven years in Washington, DC as a consultant specializing in national security issues for the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, and State. A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Deni completed his undergraduate degree in history and international relations at the College of William & Mary. He went on to earn a masters degree in U.S. foreign policy at American University, and a doctoral degree in international affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of three books and the editor or co-editor of six more. Dr. Deni has also written several peer-reviewed monographs and journal articles, published op-eds in major newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and spoken at conferences and symposia throughout Europe and North America.