Keir A. Lieber
(BA, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; MA, Univ. of Chicago; PhD, Univ. of Chicago) Assistant Professor, is also a faculty fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. His current research focuses on the international politics of contemporary American grand strategy and U.S. nuclear weapons policy. Lieber received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His articles have appeared in leading scholarly and foreign policy journals -- most recently, in International Security and Foreign Affairs -- and he is the author of the book War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology (Cornell University Press, 2005), which explores the relationship between technological change and the causes of war. He has held fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Earhart Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, and Smith Richardson Foundation.
Advising specialties :
Graduate programs in political science; foreign affairs
Research and teaching interests:
International relations theory; international security; war; U.S. foreign policy
Contact Information
Email: Keir.Lieber.1@nd.edu
Office: 447 Decio
Phone: (574) 631-0379
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Curriculum Vitae Last updated June 15, 2007