Senior Research Fellow
Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

Dr. Lahneman has held academic positions as Associate Chair of the Political Science Department at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Adjunct Professor at Towson University. He has consulted on energy and environmental security issues for the World Bank, the US government, and the private sector. His personal research interests include the future of intelligence analysis; homeland security; military intervention and post-conflict nation building; and the application of international relations theory to American foreign policy.

A former career naval officer, Commander Lahneman, U.S. Navy (retired), served as a Surface Warfare Officer in a number of combatant ships in both the Pacific and Atlantic fleets. In addition to his duties aboard ship, CDR Lahneman held subspecialties in International Negotiations, Strategic Planning, and Nuclear Propulsion.

Dr. Lahneman holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), an MA in National Security Affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a BS with Distinction from the United States Naval Academy.

Publications

"Knowledge Sharing in the Intelligence Community After 9/11." Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence , (Fall 2004).

Editor, Military Intervention: Cases in Context for the Twenty-First Century (Boulder, Colo.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).

" Outsourcing the IC's Stovepipes?" International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence , v. 16, no. 4 (Winter 2003-2004), 573-593.

"Changing Power Cycles and Foreign Policy Role-Power Realignments: Asia, Europe and North America," International Political Science Review , v. 23, no. 1 (January 2003), 97-111.

"Interdicting Drugs in the Big Pond," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 116: 56-63 (July 1990).

"Portrait of a Modern Drug Smuggler," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 116: 60-61 (July 1990).

Papers

"Modeling Hegemony Using Both Power and Ideas as Endogenous Variables in a Positivist Theory of International Relations," International Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, 19 March 2004.

"The War on Terrorism and System Transformation," 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, 29 August 2003.

"The Precarious Balance Revisited: The War on Terrorism and System Transformation." Central and East European International Studies Association/International Studies Association Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 27 June 2003.

"Knowledge Management: Essential Ingredient for Effective Intelligence Analysis." International Studies Association Annual Conference, Portland, OR, 28 February 2003.

"The Role of Intelligence in a Post-9/11 World." October 15, 2002.

"Restructuring the U.S. Intelligence Community: Outsourcing the Stovepipes?" International Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 2002.

"Asia, Europe, and North America: Foreign Policy Role Realignments," International Political Science Association Triannual Congress, Quebec City, July 2000.

Dr. William Lahneman's CV is available here .

PUAF-698N Spring 2005 - check out the syllabus for Dr. William Lahneman's spring course, Intelligence Policy and Organization.