Sean McFate
Africa, Foreign Policy, National Security
Related Programs:
The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program
The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program
Sean McFate is currently an Assistant Professor at National Defense University where he teaches conflict management strategy to senior U.S. military officers and government officials. Prior to this, he advised senior leadership of Fortune 500 firms on international relations. Mr. McFate spent several years in Africa for DynCorp International, where he helped demobilize and raise security forces in Liberia, Burundi and elsewhere. Prior to this he was a policy adviser for Amnesty International USA on foreign security forces training and human rights. He also served as an officer in the U.S. Army, primarily as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division.
Sean has published in African Affairs, Military Review, RUSI Journal, Review of African Political Economy and a US Institute of Peace Special Report on security sector reform. He has also authored several book chapters in edited volumes on foreign affairs and was a contributor to The Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and also War Crimes and Trials: A Historical Encyclopedia. Mr. McFate holds double bachelors degrees from Brown University, a masters in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and is completing his PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics.
As a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, Mr. McFate researches and writes on U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy, stabilizing fragile states, the private military industry, and sub-Saharan Africa.
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