SSP News
June 6, 2025
"Owen Coté was an irreplaceable talent in the field of security studies. He taught us much about naval warfare, military innovation, and geopolitics. And he had more in progress at the time he departed. Even at the very end of his life, he was talking about his book and inquiring after the well-being of the security studies program he realized he would soon be leaving behind."
-H-Diplo, Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum
On June 6, H-Diplo, Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum published a tribute honoring Owen’s scholarship and legacy:
"Owen’s obvious talent and evident enthusiasm made him a prime candidate for the summer internship offered in those days by the journal, International Security. It was easily arranged because Owen was a local boy from nearby Winchester, Massachusetts. We envisioned Owen primarily as a proofreader, a task for which he proved strikingly ill-suited. Nearly worthless at catching typos, Owen proved very adept at detecting flaws in the arguments of mature scholars many years his senior. His unusual analytic mind was evident even then."
From H-Diplo, Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum