Micah Zenko is a Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he worked for five years at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in a number of research positions, and in Washington D.C. at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, Veterans for America, and State Department's Office of Policy Planning, where he was a contributor to the Department's Kosovo History Project.  Micah received a Ph.D. in political science from Brandeis University, where he completed a policy-evaluative dissertation on U.S. uses of limited military force in the post-Cold War world. He has also published on a range of national security issues, including op-eds in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Boston Globe, and articles in Parameters, Defense and Security Analysis, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.