Jon Askonas

Jon Askonas is an Assistant Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America, where he works on the connections between the republican tradition, technology, and national security. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship. He was a 2017–2018 Predoctoral Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at The University of Texas at Austin.

Jon has a BS in International Politics (summa cum laude) from Georgetown University and both an MPhil(Merit) and DPhil in International Relations from Oxford. He has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. His work has been supported by the Beinecke Scholarship, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Charles Koch Foundation, and the Cyril Foster Fund. His writing has appeared in Russian Analytical Digest, Triple Helix, Fare Forward, War on the Rocks, and the Texas National Security Review.