Bio
Andrew C. Winner is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe
Former Professor, Strategic and Operational Research Department, US Naval War College
Andrew C. Winner is a former 20-plus year professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He held the position of Chair of the Strategic and Operational Research Department at the Naval War College from 2013-2019. His areas of focus are the uses of military force, nuclear weapons and deterrence, European security, South Asia and the Indian Ocean, maritime partnerships and strategy, and counterproliferation. At the Naval War College he was the Director of the Indian Ocean Studies Group. In 2019 he was awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his work as department chair. In 2007 he was awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his work on the Navy’s new maritime strategy. Prior to his appointment at the Naval War College, he was a senior staff member at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, a think tank affiliated with The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Prior to joining the institute, he held positions at the U.S. Department of State on the staff of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs and in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs where he worked on nonproliferation, security in the Persian Gulf, NATO enlargement, arms transfer policy, and security assistance. He also worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense on conventional arms control, including several rotations on the U.S. negotiating delegation in Vienna. He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, an MA from Johns Hopkins University SAIS (Bologna and Washington DC), and an AB from Hamilton College.
Courses
- Strategy And Policy
This course is an introduction to strategic studies, which deals with the preparation and use of military power to serve the ends of politics. Two themes run throughout: (1) the nature of war based on the work of major theorists including Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Alfred Thayer Mahan, and (2) the evolution of warfare from the late nineteenth century to the present. Current day events and examples will be used throughout including the current Russia-Ukraine war, the Israeli conflict with Hamas, Iran, and others, and potential for conflict in East Asia. There are no prerequisites for this course; nevertheless, a basic grasp of 20th and 21st century history will help. This course is open to all students who want to learn about how military force is thought about and used and risks associated with militarized conflict.
Prerequisites: Students may not register for this class if they have already received credit for SA.660.740[C] OR SA.502.181[C]