About

Dr Thomas Rid is a Reader in War Studies at King’s College London. He also is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, DC.

In 2009/2010, Rid was a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University and the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. From 2006 to 2009 he worked at the Woodrow Wilson Center and the RAND Corporation in Washington, and at the Institut français des relations internationales in Paris. Rid wrote his first book and thesis at the Berlin-based Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany’s major government-funded foreign policy think tank. Rid holds a PhD from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Thomas Rid published three books, Understanding Counterinsurgency (Routledge 2010, co-edited with Tom Keaney), War 2.0 (Praeger 2009, with Marc Hecker, currently translated into the Chinese by the People’s Liberation Army Press), and War and Media Operations (Routledge 2007). His numerous articles appeared in major English, French, and German peer-reviewed journals as well as magazines and newspapers.

When he finds time, Rid is working on a slow-cooking book manuscript that tries to liberate the concept of deterrence from its suffocating cold-war corset.

Thomas lives in the Barbican in the City of London. Originally he is from Aach, a village in Baden-Württemberg’s lavish most southern region.