Mailing address
One Brattle Square 515
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Marisa L. Porges
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-2581
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: marisa_porges@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Marisa L. Porges served as a counterterrorism policy adviser in the U.S. Departments of Defense and the Treasury and was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former naval flight officer in the U.S. Navy, Marisa is a doctoral candidate at King's College London.
April 21, 2013
"Nation's Challenge: Terrorist Next Door"
Op-Ed, Philadelphia Inquirer
By Marisa L. Porges, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"Active support from and cooperation with American Muslims will be one of the most effective ways to thwart future terrorist attacks. As Saudi counterterrorism officials continually remind me, the friends and family of potential jihadists are the best form of defense against radicalization. This approach works in America, too."
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October 23, 2012
"Shopping List Foreign Policy"
Op-Ed, New York Times
By Marisa L. Porges, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"...[T]onight's debate didn't change many (any?) voters' opinions about either candidate. And it left national security wonks I know banging their heads against the table, still wondering how the election will affect America's foreign policies in the years ahead. But at least we're now certain the military has fewer bayonets than it did in 1916."
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September 25, 2012
"Dead Men Share No Secrets"
Op-Ed, New York Times
By Marisa L. Porges, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"But this one-sided approach — always opting to kill instead of capture — is a major weakness of America's current approach to counterterrorism. It deprives us of significant amounts of intelligence about what Al Qaeda is thinking and planning, and information that could help find other senior terrorists. After all, it was intelligence from a detainee that helped American forces track down Bin Laden."
