Kelly A. Grieco

Grieco is a doctoral candidate at MIT. She is alsoan affiliate of the MIT Security Studies Program. Herdissertation, entitled, "Entangling Alliances: The Effectsof Alliance Institutionalization on Military Performance,"seeks to account for variation in the military performanceof coalitions and alliances on the battlefield. She arguesthat coalition military effectiveness, defined as a coalition's ability to generate maximum war-fighting capabilities from its material resources, depends on both the degree and form of military institutionalization. Her primary research interests are coalition warfare, European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP), North Atlantic TreatyOrganization (NATO) and transatlantic relations, and third party military interventions.