Dr. Keir A. Lieber is Director of the Center for Security Studies and Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and Associate Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He has been awarded major fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations and Earhart Foundation, among others. His research and teaching interests include nuclear weapons, strategy, and deterrence, and the causes of war.
Dr. Keir A. Lieber is Director of the Center for Security Studies and Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and Associate Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Government.
He has been awarded major fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Council on Foreign Relations, Earhart Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and Smith Richardson Foundation.
His research and teaching interests include nuclear weapons, strategy, and deterrence; the causes of war; U.S. foreign and national security policy; and international relations theory.
He is the author of War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology; the editor of War, Peace, and International Political Realism; and co-author, with Daryl Press, of a book manuscript, The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age. His articles have appeared in leading scholarly and foreign policy publications, including International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs, and the Atlantic Monthly.
Dr. Lieber received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.