Marina Henke - Intervention entrepreneurs and the fall of the Libyan dictator Gaddafi

Prof. Henke’s academic expertise is in military interventions, peacekeeping and European security and defense policy. She examines questions such as: Why do military interventions occur? How are coalitions-of-the-willing constructed? And what are the long-term political effects of military interventions? Her academic work has been published in Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly, International Peacekeeping, Providing for Peacekeeping, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, and Conflict Management and Peace Science.

Prof. Henke holds a Ph.D. in Politics and Public Policy from Princeton University, a Double-MS in Development Studies and International Political Economy from Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics, and a BA (summa cum laude) in Economics, Politics and Latin American Studies from Sciences Po Paris.

Prior to joining Northwestern University, Prof. Henke was a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). She also served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public and International Affairs (JPIA) and worked with the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the German Foreign Office as well as NGOs in Mexico and Argentina.