Author Details

Alan Dowd

Senior Fellow and Senior Editor, The Fraser Institute

Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, conducting research into defense and security, and the Senior Editor of fraseramerica.org. He is a contributing editor with The American Legion Magazine. His writing also has appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Military Officer, The Baltimore Sun, The Sacramento Bee, the Detroit News, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The American Enterprise, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, World Politics Review, American Enterprise Online, National Review Online, and Weekly Standard Online, among others. Before joining the Fraser Institute, Mr. Dowd was a senior fellow with the Sagamore Institute and, earlier, director of the Hudson Institute’s corporate headquarters. He has served as director of constituent services for a US congressman and adjunct professor at Butler University. He holds a B.A. with high honors in political science from Butler University and an M.A. in philanthropic studies from Indiana University.