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Will Rogers

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Related Topics: Development and Diplomacy, Natural Resources + National Security = Natural Security, Regional Security Challenges, U.S. Military Forces & Operations, U.S. National Security and Defense Policy
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous LegacyMonsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Research Associate and Joseph S. Nye Jr. Internship Coordinator

Will Rogers is a Research Associate and the Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Internship Coordinator at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). At CNAS, Mr. Rogers’ research focus spans unconventional security challenges, and he has authored or co-authored a range of publications on energy, climate change, environmental cooperation in Asia, and cybersecurity.  He is a co-editor of and contributor to the Natural Security Blog.

He is an author of, most recently, Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in the Digital Age and Sustaining Security: How Natural Resources Influence National Security.

Prior to joining CNAS, Mr. Rogers was an intern with the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he frequently wrote on environmental security for The New Security Beat. Previously, he served as a legislative intern in the office of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.  He has studied abroad at the University of Auckland, in Auckland, New Zealand, where he was a recipient of the 2007 Political Studies Senior Prize Scholarship.

Mr. Rogers has a B.A. in Political Science-International Relations from the University of California, San Diego, with an emphasis in U.S. national security and foreign policy. He is currently a graduate student in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program.

Follow him on the Natural Security Blog, on Facebook and @wmrogers on Twitter.

Areas of Expertise

  • Internet Freedom
  • Natural Security

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