Dan Lindley


(B.A., Tufts University 1984; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) Associate Professor, Dan Lindley received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and French from Tufts University in 1984.   Before starting graduate school in the Security Studies Program at MIT, he worked for Congressman Ratchford, the Center for Defense Information, the Federation of American Scientists, and the Brookings Institution.  Lindley’s book, Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.  He has published and spoken on U.N. peacekeeping, internal and ethnic conflict, the Concert of Europe, the Cyprus problem and Aegean security, and pre-emptive and preventive war, with articles in or forthcoming in:  Contemporary Security PolicyInternational Studies Perspectives, Security Studies, International Peacekeeping, Defense and Security Analysis, Hellenic Studies/Études Helléniques, and PS: Political Science and Politics,.  He is currently conducting research on public diplomacy, and on the extent to which miscalculation and misperception have come to dominate states’ decisions for war.  He lectured at MIT and was a fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.  He started as an assistant professor in political science at the University of Notre Dame in Fall, 1999, where he is also a fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. 

For more information, please consult: http://www.nd.edu/~dlindley/

Advising specialties:

Graduate programs in political science and foreign affairs

Research and teaching interests:

International relations; foreign policy; security studies

Contact Information

Email: Daniel.A.Lindley.3@nd.edu
Office: 448 Decio Faculty Hall
Phone: (574) 631-3226

Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN  46556

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