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Sean Kay, Non-Resident Fellow
Sean Kay is an associate professor in the department of politics and government at Ohio Wesleyan University. He specializes in U.S. foreign and national security policy, international security, and international organizations. He is also the chair of the international studies program.
Kay previously held positions as a visiting assistant professor at Dartmouth College and at Rhodes College. He was also a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (U.S. Department of Defense) and at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He was a former political science instructor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and worked on the International Secretariat of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels.
While in the U.S. Department of Defense, he worked on policy and analysis dealing with NATO enlargement, the Balkans, NATO's internal transformation, and U.S.-Russia relations. He also served as an advisor to the Department of State on NATO enlargement ratification/congressional issues.
Kay received his PhD, dissertation with honors, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, specializing in international relations. He was a post-graduate student at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.; and holds an MA in International/Strategic Studies from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium; and MA/BA degrees from Kent State University in Ohio.
Publications include the books Limiting Institutions: Security Governance in Eurasia; NATO after 50 Years; and NATO and the Future of European Security, as well as numerous scholarly works on international relations. He has written op-ed pieces for a wide range of national and international newspapers and is regularly consulted by the media for his expertise on international relations. In addition, he has written several U.S. government studies and spoken at numerous conferences.
Kay is a Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in addition to a number of other professional organizations.
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