Thinking the World Podcast – Kathleen McInnis

This week on the Thinking Global podcast, Dr. Kathleen McInnis (@kjmcinnis1) speaks with the Thinking Global team about political podcasting. Dr McInnis chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Jennifer (@JenniferEngl) about how they became political scientists in podcasting, about the “Smart women, smart power” program, why political podcasting is so vital, and how we can think more about political podcasting.

Kathleen J. McInnis is a principal investigator and director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Her areas of research include the intersection of gender and national security; global security strategy; defense policy; and transatlantic security. Before joining the Center, she served as an international security specialist at the Congressional Research Service (CRS), where she served as a senior expert to Congress on strategic issues such as defense policy, military operations, civil-civil relations and military, irregular warfare and global strategy. Before joining CRS, she worked as a research consultant at Chatham House in London, writing on issues relating to NATO and transatlantic security. From 2006 to 2009, Mr. McInnis worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy), working on NATO operations in Afghanistan. Dr. McInnis is widely published; his articles have been published in major national and international media. She is the author of two books: How and why states leave the contemporary military coalition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and the novel At the Heart of War: Misadventures at the Pentagon (Post Hill Press, 2018).

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