Episode 3.13: the venn diagram of policy, experience and research

In episode 13 of Battle Rhythm season 3, Steve and Wendy (Professor of Political Science and Principal’s Research Chair at the University of British Columbia) discuss Kamala Harris as the new Democratic presidential nominee and the implications for US foreign policy; Chief of Defence Staff Change of Command Ceremony; the CrowdStrike outage as well as Korean laser drones. Today's feature interview is with this year's CDSN postdoc, Manaswini Ramkumar. She is completing her PhD in International Relations at the School of International Service, American University in Washington DC, where she examines civil-military relations in the context of democratic erosion. She also studies postcolonial statebuilding, subnational democracy, and authoritarian resistance. Her work has been funded by American University, The Association for Documentary Editing and the American Political Science Association. She received her MPhil in IR from American University and MSc in Strategic Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where she previously worked as an Associate Research Fellow in the Military Studies program and was a lecturer in Professional Military Education to the Singapore Armed Forces.