Allis Chalmers Professor
Political Science
Risa Brooks is Allis Chalmers Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, senior fellow at West Point’s Modern War Institute (2017-2020), and a non-resident senior associate in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Professor Brooks is the author of Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2008). She is also coeditor (with Lionel Beehner and Daniel Maurer) of Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: Politics, Society and Modern War (Oxford University Press) and coeditor (with Elizabeth Stanley) of Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness (Stanford University Press, 2007). She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, and her professional experiences include positions as research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). She has served as associate editor for the academic journals International Security and Security Studies.
Education
Ph.D., UC-San Diego, 2000
Courses Taught
- POSC 4376 National Security Policy
- POSC 4631 World Conflict & Security | Syllabus
- POSC 4931 Terrorism | Syllabus
Publications
Books
- Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2008)
- Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness (Stanford University Press, 2007) (co-edited with Elizabeth Stanley).
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Integrating the Civil-Military Relations Sub-Field" Annual Review of Political Science (forthcoming 2019).
- "Improving Strategic Assessment in the Executive Branch: Lessons from the Scholarly Literature" in Heidi B. Demarest and Erica D. Borghard, eds. U.S. National Security Reform: Reassessing the National Security Act of 1947 (Routledge, 2019).
- "Territorial Havens and the Risk of Complex Attacks in the United States," in Feisal al-Istrabadi and Sumit Ganguly, eds. The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications. (Brookings Institution Press, 2018).