Jordan Becker

Jordan Becker is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. His research examines how states generate, sustain and adapt strategic power, with a focus on the political economy of European and transatlantic security: NATO burden sharing, the domestic politics of defence spending, defence industrial policy and the production of military capability.

He was previously Academy Professor of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point and Director of its Social Science Research Lab. In the United States Army, he served as an infantry and Special Forces officer, defence policy advisor at the US Mission to NATO, military assistant to the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee and US Joint Staff liaison to the French Joint Staff. He also holds research appointments at the Brussels School of Governance, IRSEM and IHEDN. In autumn 2027 he joins the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University.

His work has appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science and Defence and Peace Economics, among others. He holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College London, master's degrees from Columbia University and Sciences Po, and a BS from Georgetown University.