About
About
Ronan Mainprize is a Guest Teacher at the LSE and a PhD Candidate at the University of Warwick.
He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on the role of the CIA in Lyndon Johnson’s foreign policy in Latin America, the Middle East, and South East Asia. The thesis analyses the performance of the Agency in key intelligence cycle functions, and examines the way intelligence was used, abused, and neglected by the Johnson administration.
Ronan is supervised by Professor Christopher Moran and Professor Richard Aldrich, and was awarded a PAIS scholarship for his research.
Expertise
The CIA, Lyndon Johnson’s foreign policy, the Vietnam War, the US and the Middle East, US national security