Sean I. Kay
Dr. Sean Kay is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Ohio Wesleyan University specializing in international politics, international security, international organizations, and US foreign and defense policy. He is also the chair of the International Studies Program and holds the Libuse L. Reed Endowed Professorship. Sean Kay is a Mershon Associate at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University and a non-resident fellow at the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, DC, specializing in international security.
Sean Kay has held positions as visiting assistant professor of international relations at Dartmouth College, assistant professor of international studies at Rhodes College, research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (US Department of Defense), instructor in the Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; he has worked on the International Secretariat of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels and been a visiting scholar at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and a visiting scholar at the Center for International Relations, University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In the US Department of Defense, Sean Kay worked on policy and analysis dealing with NATO enlargement, the Balkans, NATO's internal transformation, and US-Russia relations. He was also an advisor to the Department of State on NATO enlargement. He received his Ph.D., dissertation with honors, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, specializing in international relations. He has been a post-graduate student at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and holds an M.A. degree in international/strategic studies from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium; and M.A./B.A. degrees from Kent State University.
Publications include the books Global Security in the 21st Century: The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), Limiting Institutions: Security Governance in Eurasia (Manchester University Press, 2003); NATO After 50 Years (Scholarly Resources, 2001), and NATO and the Future of European Security (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1998). Sean Kay is the author of numerous book chapters and peer-review journal articles focusing on international relations including the journals Current History, International Politics, European Security, Mediterranean Quarterly, Security Dialogue, Contemporary Security Policy, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and Problems of Post-Communism. He has written Op-Ed pieces for The Wall Street Journal Europe, The International Herald Tribune, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Washington Times, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, and Defense News; is the author of several US government studies; and has spoken at numerous scholarly, think-tank and government/international conferences. He has been interviewed by and quoted in major media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, The Christian Science Monitor, Defense News, Stars and Stripes, The Commercial Appeal, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Akron Beacon Journal, Japan Today, Scripps Howard, Gulf Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Harpers, The Columbus Dispatch, The Associated Press, Reuters, The Baltimore Sun, and The New York Times in addition to major European outlets, Ohio News Network, WOSU Public Radio, local network affiliates, and national networks CNN and MSNBC.
Sean Kay is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and other professional organizations and is a member of the editorial board of Contemporary Security Policy. He is featured in Who's Who in America and Who's Who Among America's Teachers and in 2005 was awarded the Bishop Francis Kearns award for outstanding teaching at Ohio Wesleyan University and was the first recipient of the Libuse L. Reed Endowed Professorship.