About the author
Professor Jennifer Lind is an associate professor with the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, a faculty associate with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University, and an associate fellow with the US and the Americas Programme and the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House.
Professor Lind holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s in Pacific international affairs from the University of California, San Diego, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Lind is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics, a book that examines the effect of war memory on international reconciliation (Cornell University Press, 2008). She has authored scholarly articles in International Security and International Studies Quarterly, and writes for wider audiences in outlets such as Foreign Affairs and National Interest. She has been quoted and interviewed by PBS Newshour, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal.
In recent years she has been a visiting scholar at Waseda University, Japan, and at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Professor Lind has worked as a consultant for RAND and for the Office of the Secretary, US Department of Defense. Her current research examines the speed and complexity with which countries rise to become great powers.