PhD, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA, International Security Policy, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs BA, Slavic Studies, Columbia University
Bio
Suzanne Freeman is a Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellow at American University’s School of International Service in the Foreign Policy & Global Security Department. She focuses on international security and researches civil-intelligence relations, the causes of war, nuclear issues, grand strategy, and authoritarian politics. Methodologically, she focuses on archival research, structured interviews, and wargaming. Freeman’s book project, anchored in her work on Russia and the Soviet Union, examines the strategies that authoritarian intelligence agencies employ to intervene in their own state’s foreign policy decision-making process about the use of force. Her broader research agenda examines the impact of coercive institutions on domestic and foreign policy in authoritarian states. She has received fellowships and awards, including a pre-doctoral fellowship at George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the Elliott School of International Relations and a Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship. Her peer-reviewed research has been published in PS: Political Science & Politics. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was affiliated with the Security Studies Program.
