Owen Cote

OWEN R. COTÉ, JR. joined the MIT Security Studies Program in 1997 as Associate Director. Prior to that he was Assistant Director of the International Security Program at Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs, where he remains co-editor of the Center's journal, International Security. He received his Ph.D. from MIT, where he specialized in U.S. defense policy and international security affairs. His dissertation, which he is now revising for publication, analyzed the sources of innovative military doctrine, using cases that compared U.S. Navy responses to different Cold War nuclear vulnerability crises. He is also the author of The Third Battle: Innovation in the U.S. Navy's Silent Cold War Struggle with Soviet Submarines, a book analyzing the sources of the U.S. Navy's success in its Cold War antisubmarine warfare effort, and a co-author of Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material. He has also written on the future of naval doctrine, nuclear force structure issues, and the threat of WMD terrorism. After graduating from Harvard College and before returning to graduate school, he worked at the Hudson Institute and the Center for Naval Analyses.

Courses

• 17.480 Understanding Modern Military Operations

Media Appearances

• March 2, 2011, on WGBH's "Greater Boston" to discuss the fate of the backup engine for the F-35 fighter jet.
• January 11, 2007, NPR's Here and Now, on a show titled "Reaction to Bush's Iraq Speech."
• December 6, 2006, New England Cable News.Topic: Bush's options in Iraq.
• December 6, 2006, WBUR's Here and Now. Topic: Iraq Study Group's report. Click here to listen to the broadcast.