M. L. deRaismes Combes

M. L. deRaismes Combes is an Assistant Professor of National Security at The United States Army War College. She was a 2019–2020 postdoctoral fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.

deRaismes received her Ph.D. in International Relations at the School of International Service at American University in 2018. Her dissertation examines the role of 9/11 in formulating, propagating, and contesting U.S. remotely piloted aircraft policies and aviation security from September 2001 to January 2017. She received her AB in French and War & Peace Studies at Dartmouth College (Magna cum Laude) and later completed a dual bilingual Master’s program in Paris on International Relations and the Sociology of Conflict (with distinction).

Her research is interdisciplinary by nature and draws on the historical roots of identity and colonialism to better analyze contemporary U.S. foreign policy and international security, with a focus on the Middle East and South Asia. Her past scholarship and policy work have covered homegrown terrorism, ISIS, the Arab/Israeli conflict, the Islamic world, ethnic and civil wars, irregular warfare, as well as the theoretical underpinnings of international relations.