Jasen Castillo
Assistant Professor
Dr. Jasen Castillo, Assistant Professor, came to the Bush School after serving as an analyst in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy working on conventional and nuclear deterrence. He also taught as an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Security Studies Program. From 2001 to 2006, he was an analyst at the RAND Corporation, where he led studies on military strategy, nuclear proliferation, and WMD terrorism and authored or co-authored numerous publications including Assessing the Value of U.S. Army International Activities (2006) and Striking First: Preemptive and Preventive Attack in U.S. National Security Policy (2006). Prior to joining RAND, he was a consultant at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Castillo holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. His current project explores the relationship between national cohesion and military staying power. In addition to military effectiveness, his research interests include: U.S. foreign and defense policy, nationalism, deterrence theory, military history, international relations theory, and qualitative methods
