Mark Toukan

Mark Toukan is a Lecturer at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University and an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. His work focuses on strategic competition, proxy warfare, conflict management, and military training, with recent projects on defense modeling, alliance dynamics, and network analysis.

• PhD in Political Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MA in International Relations from University of Chicago
• BA in Middle Eastern Studies and French from Ohio State University

At CMIST, he teaches courses on Military Strategy and Doctrine (84-328/84-628) and Terrorism and Insurgency (84-389/84-689). His research combines empirical analysis with defense-focused applications, including conflict forecasting and acquisition studies.