Andrew C. Winner

Andrew C. Winner is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe, and Professor Emeritus, US Naval War College. He held the position of Chair of the Strategic and Operational Research Department at the Naval War College from 2013-2019. His areas of focus are the uses of military force, nuclear weapons and deterrence, European security, South Asian and Indian Ocean security, maritime strategy, and counterproliferation. At the Naval War College, he was the Director of the Indian Ocean Studies Group. In 2024, he was awarded the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award for his work on nuclear deterrence including the US government’s Deterrence Escalation and Review wargame, maritime strategy, and maritime cooperation with European allies and partners. In 2019 he was awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his work as department chair. In 2007 he was awarded the Navy’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his work on the Navy’s new maritime strategy. Prior to his appointment at the Naval War College, he was a senior staff member at the Institute for Foreign Policy analysis, a think tank and defense contractor affiliated with The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Prior to joining the Institute, he held positions as a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. Department of State on the staff of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs and in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs where he worked on nonproliferation, security in the Persian Gulf, NATO enlargement, arms transfer policy, and security assistance. He also worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense on conventional arms control, including several rotations on the U.S. negotiating delegation in Vienna. He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MA from Johns Hopkins University SAIS (Bologna and Washington DC), and an AB from Hamilton College.