Sebastian Rosato

Director of Graduate Studies
Affiliate, Notre Dame International Security Program
Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Fellow, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies

Sebastian Rosato is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and the Notre Dame International Security Center. He is the author of Europe United: Power Politics and the Making of the European Community (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011), Intentions in Great Power Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), and Homo Theoreticus: Rationality in International Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming) (with John Mearsheimer). He has also published scholarly articles in several journals, including the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, International Security, Perspectives on Politics, and Security Studies. Professor Rosato has been a fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He received a B.A. (Honors) in History from Cambridge University, an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Before attending graduate school, he worked for Goldman Sachs in London.