The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Sean S. Costigan is Director of the Lower Manhattan Project, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Graduate Program in International Affairs. Previously he was Director for Strategic Initiatives, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich and a visiting scholar at The New School. He is co-chair of the Economics of Security Study Group, chair of the editorial board, Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Homeland Security Working Group. He previously served as Executive Editor of Columbia International Affairs Online, Research Associate for Science, Technology and Defense Industrial Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and on the staff of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. His research interests include technology and international security, terrorism and the Internet, environment and energy issues and the history of science. He is the author or editor of a number of works, including Arming the Future, Terrornomics, the blogs Infotechia and Terrornomics and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Security (CQ Press, 2011).