Peter D. Feaver, Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Sanford School of Public Policy and Director, Triangle Institute for Security Studies  

Office Phone: (919) 660-4331
Email Address: pfeaver@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • International, Conflict Prevention and Peacekeeping
  • National Security and Defense, Homeland Security

Education:
PhD, Harvard University, 1990
A.M., Harvard University, 1986
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Lehigh University, 1983

Research Categories: Security Studies, Civil-Military Relations and Nuclear Weapons

Research Description: 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).

Feaver is on leave from Duke and working as the Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council Staff at the White House. Feaver co-directed (with Bruce Jentleson) a major research project funded by the Carnegie Corporation, “Wielding American Power: Managing Interventions after September 11.” 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, 2004). He is co-editor, with Richard H. Kohn, of Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (MIT Press, 2001); and 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 American foreign policy, 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 married to Karen Feaver, and they have three children, two sons and a daughter.

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • Polsci 93d.001, International relations Synopsis
    Social sciences 136, MW 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
  • Polsci 219s.01, American grand strategy Synopsis
    Perkins 307, W 03:05 PM-05:25 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. P.D. Feaver, E Seeler. "Before and After Huntington: The Methodological Maturing of Civil-Military Studies." American Civil-Military Relations: Realities and Challenges. Johns Hopkins Press, 2009
  2. P.D. Feaver, C. Gelpi, J. Reifler. Paying the Human Costs of War. Princeton, 2009.
  3. P.D. Feaver and W. Inboden. "“What Was the Point of SPIR? Strategic Planning in National Security at the White House,”." Avoiding Trivia: The Role of Strategic Planning in American Foreign Policy. Ed. Daniel Drezner Brookings, 2009
  4. P.D. Feaver. ""Domestic Politics and the Long War"." Lessons of the Long War. Ed. Thomas Donnelly AEI, 2009
  5. P.D. Feaver. "Anatomy of the Surge." Commentary (April 2008).

Curriculum Vitae

Peter D. Feaver