Jorge Benitez is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College. Before he joined the faculty of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Dr. Benitez served as a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, where he regularly briefed senior US and foreign officials on national security issues. Earlier in his career, he served as assistant for Alliance issues to the Director of NATO Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He also worked on international security issues at the Department of State and the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. You can follow his coverage of security issues on Twitter @NATOSource.
Dr. Benitez received a B.A. with honors from the University of Florida where he majored in both political science and history. He later graduated with an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Recent Publications
“Will the NATO Alliance Survive a Second Term of Donald Trump? Foreign Affairs Asks the Experts,” Foreign Affairs, July 19, 2024.
“Why NATO Needs Ukraine,” National Interests, July 8, 2024.
“Biden is wrong to oppose a NATO invitation for Ukraine,” The Hill, July 12, 2023.
“U.S. NATO Policy in the Age of Trump: Controversy and Consistency,” Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Winter 2019, Vol. 43:1.
“How to navigate Trump’s tectonic change in transatlantic relations,” CNN, February 16, 2017.