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Peter D. Feaver, Professor, Political Science

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- 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)
- 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]
- Feaver, PD; Keohane, RO, In Memoriam Ole R. Holsti, Ps: Political Science & Politics, vol. 53 no. 4 (October, 2020), pp. 816-816
- Feaver, PD; Brands, H; Lissner, RF; Porter, P, Correspondence: The establishment and U.S. grand strategy, International Security, vol. 43 no. 4 (April, 2019), pp. 197-204 [doi]
- Feaver, PD; Brands, H, The Establishment and US Grand Strategy, International Security, vol. 43 no. 4 (April, 2019), pp. 197-199, M I T PRESS
- Feaver, P, Too many leaks, Foreign Affairs, vol. 97 no. 6 (November, 2018), pp. 199-202