DAVID B. KANIN, PH.D.
Adjunct Professor
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Dr. David Kanin came to DMGS after a 31-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He spent much of his last decade at the Agency as founding member of the Red Cell, an alternative analysis and brainstorming group. His responsibilities included challenging Agency judgments on topics worldwide and presenting alternative worldviews to senior policymakers. Described by one of his students as “the most educated man I have ever met”, Dr. Kanin is also much appreciated by his students for his varied and engaging teaching style.
Dr. Kanin has also served as Director of Long-Range Identity Studies on the National Intelligence Council and as senior political analyst on the Director of Intelligence’s Interagency Balkan Task Force during the wars that followed the collapse of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
He was selected as a member of both the U.S. delegation to the Madrid Review conference of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1981 and the Rambouillet Peace Talks on Kosovo in 1999.
Furthermore, Dr. Kanin managed the production of National Intelligence Estimates and other Community products on Balkan and wider European issues intelligence work as a Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Europe from 1993 to 1996. He also analyzed European security issues, Yugoslavia, North Korea, and counterintelligence.
Dr. Kanin holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
From 1993-1996 Dr. Kanin was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Europe, in which capacity he managed the production of National Intelligence Estimates and other Community products on Balkan and wider European issues. Before then he worked as an analyst on European security issues, Yugoslavia, North Korea, and counterintelligence. He was a member of the US delegation to the Madrid Review conference of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1981 and the Rambouillet peace talks on Kosovo in 1999.>
Dr. Kanin is a Professorial Lecturer at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and an Analytic Director with Centra Technology.
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Aug 16, 2018 WATCH: The main issue is the sovereignty of Kosovo, not the exchange of territories (VOA Interview)
A Balkan affairs expert, the former senior CIA analyst for the region and Europe, says that the pathology of the West for any territorial displacement stops discussing Kosovo and Serbia. David Kanin, professor of European Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, says Europe’s history is a story of changing borders.
May 24, 2017 WATCH: Will the Balkan Tinderbox Ignite, Again? (The Cipher Brief)
David B. Kanin is a Professorial Lecturer at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and an Analytic Director with Centra Technology. In 2010 he retired as a senior analyst after a 31- year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He spent much of his last decade at the Agency as founding member of the Red Cell, an alternative analysis and brainstorming group. Dr. Kanin’s responsibilities included challenging Agency judgments on topics worldwide and presenting alternative worldviews to senior policymakers.
RECENT
MEDIA
Aug 16, 2018 WATCH: The main issue is the sovereignty of Kosovo, not the exchange of territories (VOA Interview)
A Balkan affairs expert, the former senior CIA analyst for the region and Europe, says that the pathology of the West for any territorial displacement stops discussing Kosovo and Serbia. David Kanin, professor of European Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, says Europe’s history is a story of changing borders.
May 24, 2017 WATCH: Will the Balkan Tinderbox Ignite, Again? (The Cipher Brief)
David B. Kanin is a Professorial Lecturer at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and an Analytic Director with Centra Technology. In 2010 he retired as a senior analyst after a 31- year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He spent much of his last decade at the Agency as founding member of the Red Cell, an alternative analysis and brainstorming group. Dr. Kanin’s responsibilities included challenging Agency judgments on topics worldwide and presenting alternative worldviews to senior policymakers.
