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Bernie Kaussler

bernie-kaussler.jpeg Bernie Kaussler
Professor of Political Science,
James Madison University

Dr. Bernie Kaussler is Professor of Political Science at James Madison University. His scholarship and teaching focuses on diplomacy and statecraft, conflict management, US foreign policy and international security. He is author of four books on US foreign policy and Middle East security, and disinformation and weaponization of nonsense by populists. His latest book is on the proxy war in Yemen. He enjoys the intersection of scholarship and the policy-making community. To that end, he has produced national security teaching materials, including simulations on national security decision-making for the US Air Force, NATO ACT and participated in AWG war games on the Middle East. He has been teaching 'Hacking for Diplomacy' and ‘Hacking for Defense’ at the JMU X-Labs since 2017. He received his PhD in International Relations and his M.Litt in Middle East Politics from the University of St Andrews.