Logan was funded by the Rockefeller Center for a Summer 2014 internship, with generous support from the Mr. E. John Rosenwald Jr. ’52 Public Affairs Internship Fund.

1. Logan Brog ’15 graduated from Bentley School in Lafayette, CA. At Dartmouth, he is double majoring in Government and French Studies. He participated in the Arabic Language Foreign Study Program in Tangier, Morocco and interned with the International Organization for Migration in Kuwait City, Kuwait. He is a James O. Friedman Presidential Scholar research assistant for Professor Dirk Vandewalle, for whom he researches politics in post-Qadhafi Libya. He is also a War and Peace Fellow with the Dickey Center for International Understanding and was previously a Great Issues Scholar. Logan is currently captain of the Dartmouth Parliamentary Debate Team and President of Dartmouth College Democrats. After graduating, he hopes to pursue a career in international relations or academia.
Logan was funded by the Rockefeller Center for a Summer 2014 internship, with generous support from the Mr. E. John Rosenwald Jr. ’52 Public Affairs Internship Fund.
Executive Summary from Logan’s final report:
From June through August 2014, I interned for the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). ISW is a small think-tank that carries out rigorous open-source analyses of kinetic conflicts and potential flashpoints around the world to inform civilians making decisions about defense and foreign policy. During this internship, I was a part of the Lebanon portfolio attached to Syria Team. I was responsible for delivering a daily briefing to analysts working other portfolios and leadership, creating a document containing all significant kinetic and political events in Lebanon called a Commander’s Critical Information Requirement (CCIR), and using Palantir software to visualize complex networks of militant activity in the western Levant. I also wrote an analytical report for ISW’s Syria website on Syrian militants’ takeover of a town in eastern Lebanon and briefed high-ranking members of the defense community on the crisis.
[MR. E. JOHN ROSENWALD JR. ’52 PUBLIC AFFAIRS FUND INTERN PROFILE]
“I would … like to thank Mr. John E. Rosenwald, Jr. ’52 for his generosity. I hope he knows that his kindness and willingness to assist Dartmouth students seeking to enter the public policy world go noticed.”

2. Additionally, I assisted the Iraq team by researching Shi’a militia mobilization and military activity in the vicinity of Baghdad. My internship at the Institute for the Study of War has direct impacts on my future plans. This year, I plan to write a Government Honors Program thesis on how security forces’ reactions to civil strife are impacted by a government’s level of democracy or autocracy. I hope to use some of the cases that I studied at ISW, including Lebanon and Iraq, for this project. I also learned methodologies and methods of analysis that will enable me to do better work. In the long term, I hope to pursue work that will allow me to use Arabic while studying politics or conflict. This summer taught me about different career options in the field, especially those with nongovernmental organizations and think tanks.
I would like to sincerely thank the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College for the assistance and advice that made this summer such an enriching and enormously positive experience. It was a life-changing opportunity that will have a strong impact on what I do in the future. I would also like to thank Mr. John E. Rosenwald, Jr. ’52 for his generosity. I hope he knows that his kindness and willingness to assist Dartmouth students seeking to enter the public policy world go noticed.
Logan Brog points to Arsal, a Lebanese town hit by a Syrian rebel offensive during his internship at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, DC.
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