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Peter D. Feaver, Professor, Political Science
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Teaching (Spring 2024):
- POLSCI 365D.001, FOREIGN POLICY OF THE US
Synopsis
- Social Sciences 136, MW 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
- (also cross-listed as PUBPOL 376D.001)
- Social Sciences 136, MW 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
- POLSCI 365D.01D, FOREIGN POLICY OF THE US
Synopsis
- Gross Hall 105, F 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
- (also cross-listed as PUBPOL 376D.01D)
- Gross Hall 105, F 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
- POLSCI 365D.02D, FOREIGN POLICY OF THE US
Synopsis
- LSRC D243, Th 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
- (also cross-listed as PUBPOL 376D.02D)
- LSRC D243, Th 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
- POLSCI 365D.03D, FOREIGN POLICY OF THE US
Synopsis
- Gross Hall 111, F 12:00 PM-12:50 PM
- (also cross-listed as PUBPOL 376D.03D)
- Gross Hall 111, F 12:00 PM-12:50 PM
- POLSCI 497S-3.01, SENIOR SEMINAR IN SPC
Synopsis
- Gross Hall 270, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- (also cross-listed as PUBPOL 497S.01)
- Gross Hall 270, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- POLSCI 497S-3.01, SENIOR SEMINAR IN SPC
Synopsis
- Gross Hall 104, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- POLSCI 562S.01, AMERICAN GRAND STRATEGY
Synopsis
- Gross Hall 111, Tu 10:05 AM-12:35 PM
- (also cross-listed as HISTORY 567S.01, PUBPOL 501S.01)
- Gross Hall 111, Tu 10:05 AM-12:35 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. Harvard University 1990 A.M. Harvard University 1986 B.A. Lehigh University 1983
- Specialties:
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International Relations
Political Science/Government
Security, Peace, & Conflict
- Research Interests: Security Studies, Civil-Military Relations and Nuclear Weapons
Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is Professor of Political Science at Duke University and Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS). Feaver is author of Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (Harvard Press, 2003),and co-author, with Christopher Gelpi, of Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force ( Princeton University 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). And he is author of Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992). He has published several other monographs and over thirty articles and book chapters on nuclear proliferation, civil-military relations, information warfare, and U.S. national security. He won the Duke Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2001 and the Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994-95. 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. He is a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve (IRR). He is married to Karen Feaver, and they have two children, a son and a daughter.
- Keywords:
- U.S. • Political Science • Military • National Security
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Nathaniel J. Harris
- Seth Cantey
- Daniel Krcmaric
- Andrew Bell
- Daniel Bessner
- Christopher Q. Barnett
- Eric B Lorber
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Urben, HA, Book Review: Thanks for your service: The causes and consequences of public confidence in the U.S. military, Armed Forces & Society (October, 2023), SAGE Publications [doi]
- Feaver, PD, Thanks for your service: The causes and consequences of public confidence in the US military (July, 2023), pp. 1-310, ISBN 9780197681121 [doi] [abs]
- Feaver, P, What Not to Worry About in the Policy–Academy Gap Debate: A Contrarian Take, Armed Forces and Society, vol. 49 no. 1 (January, 2023), pp. 20-25 [doi] [abs]
- Brands, H; Feaver, P, Getting grand strategy right, in The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy (September, 2021), pp. 559-574, ISBN 9780198840299
- Dunlap, C, Civil-Military Relations, edited by Nelson Polsby, et. al, eds., vol. 2 no. 1 (2021), pp. 211-241, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISSN 1094-2939 [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]