Keir A Lieber
Associate Professor
Center for Security Studies
Center for Security Studies
United States of America
Biography
Keir A. Lieber is Associate Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government. Lieber’s research and teaching interests include the causes of war; nuclear weapons, deterrence, and strategy; U.S. foreign policy; and international relations theory. He is author of War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology (Cornell University Press, 2005, 2008) and editor of War, Peace, and International Political Realism (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009). His articles have appeared in leading scholarly and foreign policy publications – most recently in International Security, Foreign Affairs, and the Atlantic Monthly. He has been awarded fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations, Earhart Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Smith Richardson Foundation. He is currently writing a book (with Daryl Press, Dartmouth College) on nuclear weapons and international relations. Lieber received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a proud product of the D.C. public schools.
Research Interest
Security studies
Publications
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Lieber KA, Daryl G Press (2013) Why States Won’t Give Nuclear Weapons to Terrorists. Int Security 38.1 : 80-104.
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Lieber KA, Daryl G (2013) The New Era of Nuclear Weapons, Deterrence, and Conflict. Strategic Studies Quarterly 7.1: 3-12.
