Dr. Elizabeth N. Saunders is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Over the last decade she has held numerous fellowships, with her research and teaching interests focusing on international security and U.S. foreign policy, including the politics of using force.
Dr. Elizabeth N. Saunders is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
She has previously been a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; a postdoctoral Fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University; a Brookings Institution Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies; and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.
Her research and teaching interests focus on international security and U.S. foreign policy, including the presidency and foreign policy, and the politics of using force.
Her book, Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions, was published in 2011 and won the 2012 Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Award from APSA’s International History and Politics section. Further work has been published in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, The American Journal of Political Science and International Studies Review. She is also an editor and contributor to The Washington Post ‘Monkey Cage’ blog.
Dr. Saunders holds an A.B. in Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics from Harvard College; an M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge; and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.