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"American Grand Strategy and Northeast Asian Security"
Peter Feaver
Professor of Political Science, Duke University
12:00-1:30 pm, September 13, 2007
116 Old Chemistry, Duke University West Campus
Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS).
From June 2005 to July 2007, Feaver was on leave to be Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council Staff at the White House.
Feaver is author of Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (Harvard Press, 2003) and of Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992). He is co-author, with Christopher Gelpi, of Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force (Princeton University Press, 2004), co-author, with Christopher Gelpi and Jason Reifler, of Paying the Human Costs of War (Princeton University Press, forthcoming), and co-author, with Susan Wasiolek and Anne Crossman, of Getting the Most Out of College (Ten Speed Press, forthcoming). He is co-editor, with Richard H. Kohn, of Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (MIT Press, 2001). He has published several other monographs and over thirty scholarly articles and book chapters on American foreign policy, public opinion, nuclear proliferation, civil-military relations, information warfare, and U.S. national security.
In 1993-94, Feaver served as Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council at the White House where his responsibilities included counterproliferation policy, regional nuclear arms control, the national security strategy review, and other defense policy issues.