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Peter D. Feaver, Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor

Peter D. Feaver
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Education:

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

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

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 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.

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. P.D. Feaver, S Wasiolek, A Crossman,, Getting the Best Out of College (forthcoming 2008), Ten Speed Press .
  2. P.D. Feaver, C Gelpi, J Reifler, Iraq the Vote: Retrospective and Prospective Foreign Policy Judgments on Candidate Choice and Casualty Tolerance, Political Behavior, vol. 29 no. 2 (Summer, 2007) .
  3. P.D. Feaver, MoveOn's McCarthy Moment, Boston Globe (11 September 2007) .
  4. P.D. Feaver, E Seeler, The Soldier and the State: The Anatomy of a Classic & Methodological Transformation of a Subdiscipline, in American Civil-Military Relations: Fifty Years Since The Soldier and the State (2008 forthcoming), manuscript under review .
  5. P.D. Feaver, J. Aldrich, C Gelpi, K Sharp, J Reifler, Foreign Policy and the Electoral Connection, Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 9 (2006) .