Caroline Turner is a former Research Assistant with ELAC who investigated how the military industrial complex affects threat perception. Specifically, she sought to understand how the procurement and acquisition policies of defense assets potentially inflate threat perception and subsequently escalate security dilemmas between major powers including the US and China. Her research was inspired by the 2022 NATO Strategic Concept, specifically how deterrence affects good governance and democracy.
Caroline is a nuclear submarine officer in the US Navy and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) graduate from the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford, Caroline attended the US Naval Academy where she graduated with distinction and commissioned, earning a degree in Operations Research.
