Senior Non-Resident Associate Fellow
Dr Andrew Monaghan
Dr. Monaghan specializes in Russian grand strategy, particularly Moscow’s thinking about the future and ways in war.
He is a Senior Associate Fellow in the Research Division at the NATO Defence College, where he is also Commissioning Editor of the NATO Defence College's Russian Studies series. He has lectured to numerous courses at the NDC, and from 2006 to 2012 led the Russia-related research in the Research Division. In this role, he was Commissioning Editor of the NDC’s Russian Studies Series, and the NDC’s senior researcher on energy security matters.
He is also currently a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute in Washington, DC.
Previously, he has directed research on Russia at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Centre. Additionally, he has worked at Chatham House and the UK's Defence Academy, and been both an Academic Visitor at St Antony's College, Oxford and a George F. Kennan Fellow at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute.
Dr. Monaghan is widely published, and his books include Power in Modern Russia - Strategy and Mobilisation (2017), Dealing with the Russians (2019), Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition (2022) and The Sea in Russian Strategy (2023). A new, second edition of The New Politics of Russia: Interpreting Change was published in spring 2024. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and literary festivals, and has acted as a consultant to parliaments, government ministries and militaries in the UK and US, NATO, the EU and to major international companies.
He began his education as an historian at the University of Edinburgh, before graduating from the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London, first from the MA programme with Distinction and the Simon O’Dwyer Russell prize in 2001, and then with a PhD in 2005.