Shira Cohen

Shira Cohen

Morgenthau Fellow  |  2025

UC Berkeley

Shira E. Cohen is a Political Science Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in International Relations and Methods. Her research interests include military strategy, emerging technologies, and religion. Shira holds degrees from the B.A. Honors Track in Security, Strategy, and Decision-Making and from the M.A. thesis track in Government at Reichman University. She worked at the Institute for the Study of Intelligence Methodology, the Israeli National Cyber Directorate, and the Strategic Planning Department at IDF Planning Directorate. She is also a member of the International Student/Young Pugwash leadership team. Among her publications, she published an article on the first international crisis of AI in the West Point Journal of Politics and Security.