Dr. Emily Whalen specializes in long-term national security strategy development. She is trained as an historian. Her research interests span a wide range of subjects, including the history of U.S. foreign policy, 20th century Middle East politics and culture, and the evolution of the nation-state at the turn of the century.

Currently, Dr. Whalen is Research Fellow in Net Assessment at the Centre for Statecraft and National Security at King’s College London. She is co-founder of a boutique consulting firm, alongside Dr. Ashlyn Hand, which focuses on long-range strategic analysis and applied history.

Previously, Dr. Whalen was a visiting scholar at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and a Non-Resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She has held fellowships at the Clements Center for National Security, Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Yale University’s International Security Studies Program. She was also an affiliated scholar at the American University of Beirut's Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies.

Prior to completing her PhD, Emily worked as a historical consultant for the EastWest Institute, an international, non-governmental think-tank specializing in Track-II diplomacy, and as a coder for the Armed Conflict Location and Event Database, covering political violence in Pakistan. Her writing appears in several online publications, including the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Foreign Policy, Task and Purpose, Lawfare, H-Diplo, and Engelsberg Ideas. Her first book, on U.S. intervention in the Lebanese civil war, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

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