Kevin McNamara

Associate Scholar, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Kevin McNamara, an FPRI associate scholar, is a former journalist for Calkins Newspapers, former aide to the late U.S. Congressman R. Lawrence Coughlin (R-Pa.), and Assistant Vice President of Drexel University.

His articles have appeared in the American Spectator, Commentary, Defense News, National Review Online, Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, University Bookman: A Quarterly Review, The World & I, the Chicago Tribune/cite>, Detroit News, Newsday/cite>, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Seattle Times. The author of a children’s book, The Presidency, he has been awarded three grants and fellowships from the Earhart and Tawani Foundations in support of a book he is writing about the Russian Civil War.

He earned the B.A. and M.A. degrees (journalism and political science) from Temple University. He also earned a certificate in national security law from the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia’s School of Law, as well as a certificate in nonprofit management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. McNamara is a member of the Philadelphia Committee on Foreign Relations.

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The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al Qaeda
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