Benjamin Friedman

Benjamin H. Friedman is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and an affiliate of the Security Studies Program. He is also a Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies at the Cato Institute. His writing deals with counter-terrorism, homeland security and defense politics, with a focus on threat perception. He is co-editing a book on U.S. military innovation since the Cold War. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, the San Francisco Chronicle, the International Herald Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, Washingtonpost.com, Defense News, Regulation and other newspapers and journals. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Recent Publications

"The Problem of Making Policy Based on the Premise 'If'," Australian Financial Review, April 18, 2008
"Don't 'Pull an Iraq' in Afghanistan," Christian Science Monitor, April 3, 2008
"Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq," Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 610, February 13, 2008. With Harvey Sapolsky and Chris Preble
"The Terrible 'Ifs'," Regulation, Vol.30, No. 4 (Winter 2007-2008), pp. 32-40
"The Politics of Chicken Littleism," Washingtonpost.com, Think Tank Town, December 5, 2007
"Fewer Missions, Not More Troops," MIT Center for International Studies, Audit of Conventional Wisdom (July 2007)