Biography

WILLIAM ROSENAU, Ph.D. is a political scientist in the Rand Corporation's Washington Office, where he specializes in the study of insurgency, terrorism, intelligence, and military special operations. He is also the chairman of RAND's Insurgency Board. Dr. Rosenau has served in the US State Department's counterterrorism office (S/CT); as a congressional legislative assistant; on the US Department of Defense Commission on the Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces (CORM); and in the office of the US assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict (OASD/SOLIC). He is also an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Security Studies program. He is the author of US Internal Security Assistance to South Vietnam: Insurgency, Subversion, and Public Order (Routledge, 2005). Dr. Rosenau's RAND publications include "Corporations and Counterinsurgency" (forthcoming, 2009); "From the Ashes? The Phoenix Program and Contemporary Counterinsurgency" (forthcoming, 2009); Subversion and Insurgency (2007); Confronting the "Enemy Within": Security Intelligence, Police, and Counterterrorism in Four Democracies (2004); Aum Shinrikyo, Al Qaeda, and the Kinshasa Reactor: Implications of Three Case Studies for Combating Nuclear Terrorism (2005); and Trends in Outside Support to Insurgent Movements (2001). He holds an A.B. In political science (Columbia), an M.A. in history (Cambridge), and a Ph.D. in War Studies (King's College, London).