Speaker: Dr. Iskander Rehman
Topic: Learning from History: The Past, Present and Future of Great Power War (focus on Sino-U.S. relations)
Bio: Iskander Rehman is a senior political scientist at RAND, where he focuses on applied history, grand strategy and defense issues. Prior to joining RAND, he was senior fellow for strategic studies at the American Foreign Policy Council and a visiting fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Over the course of his career, he has worked at a number of different think tanks, such as the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and German Marshall Fund of the United States. A tri-national citizen, Rehman has lived in France, India and the United Kingdom and is the founder of the Rochambeau Dialogue, a Franco-U.S. Track 1.5 dialogue on defense issues that took place every year in Newport, RI, from 2018 to 2021.
He is the author of Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great Power War and Sino-U.S. Competition and Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy under Tiberius.
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