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John Deni

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service Dr. John R. Deni is a Research Professor of Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM) Security Studies at the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute (SSI). He previously worked for 8 years as a political advisor for senior U.S. military commanders in Europe. Prior to that, he spent 2 years as a strategic planner specializing in the military-to-military relationship between the United States and its European allies. While working for the U.S. military in Europe, he was also an adjunct lecturer at Heidelberg University’s Institute for Political Science where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses on U.S. foreign and security policy, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, European security, and alliance theory and practice. Before working in Germany, Dr. Deni spent 7 years in Washington, DC, as a consultant specializing in national security issues for the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, and State. He has spoken at conferences and symposia throughout Europe and North America. Dr. Deni is the author most recently of the book Alliance Management and Maintenance: Restructuring NATO for the 21st Century, as well as several journal articles and monographs. He has published op-eds in major newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun.