Lionel Beehner, PhD

Lionel Beehner, Ph.D., is senior editorial director and adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He is also a senior analyst on Russia at TRADOC/G2’s Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO). He is formerly an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was director of research at the Modern War Institute at West Point.

His commentary and analysis have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Military Review, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and Security Studies, among other publications. Beehner is a regular book reviewer with Parameters. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and is the coeditor of Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War (Oxford University Press, 2021).