I’d like to thank Prof. Beito for graciously inviting me to guest blog here at Liberty and Power. I’ve long found L&P to be a breath of fresh air, and I feel privileged to be included with its resident bloggers. I have my own blog at http://justinlogan.typepad.com; many of my posts here will be cross-posted at that site. By way of introduction:

I’m a research assistant in Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, though in no way whatever (at all!) do my views necessarily reflect the views of anyone else at Cato. I’m a research assistant – I do what I’m told. My main project at present is assisting Ted Galen Carpenter with research on his upcoming book, The Coming War with China over Taiwan: Inevitable or Avoidable?

I graduated from American University with a bachelor’s in International Studies in 2001, and I am currently preparing to apply for a joint M.A./Ph.D. program. For all readers who happen to be noninterventionist philanthropists, I am also pursuing funding opportunities for said degree. My research interests are, in no particular order, the theoretical underpinnings of the war on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy in Central Asia, and I have an esoteric interest in the conflict in Transnistria.

First substantive post forthcoming.