thomas.rid@jhu.edu Dr. Thomas Rid is the second Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow at the CTR. From 2006 to 2008, Thomas was a Transatlantic Fellow at the RAND Corporation in Washington, DC, at the Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri) in Paris, and at SAIS. From 2005 to 2006, he coordinated the foreign policy program of the American Academy in Berlin. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Fritz-Thyssen-Fellow at the German government’s foreign policy think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) and at RAND. He holds a doctorate in political science of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. His first book, War and Media Operations (Routledge), was published as a paperback in 2008. War 2.0 (Praeger), a book on irregular war in the information age coauthored with Marc Hecker, and Understanding Counterinsurgency Warfare (Routledge), coedited with Thomas A. Keaney, will come out in 2009. His articles appeared in Die Zeit, Neue Züricher Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, Merkur, Policy Review, Military Review, and others. Thomas Rid’s main research interests are civil-military relations, particularly the emergence of the local civilian population as a concept in military thinking, and the impact of telecommunication technology on fragile states and armed conflict. He is also working on European and German foreign and security policy. Publications and CV: http://thomasrid.wordpress.com/ | 
