Dr. Peter Dombrowski is a Professor of Strategy in the Strategic Research Department at the Naval War College. Over the last 25 years he has also held positions as Director of the Naval War College Press, Editor of the Naval War College Review, and Co-editor of International Studies Quarterly. He specializes in naval strategy, science and security.
Dr. Peter Dombrowski is a Professor of Strategy in the Strategic Research Department at the Naval War College.
Previous positions include Director of the Naval War College Press, Editor of the Naval War College Review, Co-editor of International Studies Quarterly, Associate Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University and Defense Analyst at ANSER, Inc.
He has also been affiliated with research institutions including the East-West Center, The Brookings Institution, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, among others.
He has been awarded the Chancellor’s Scholarship for Prospective Leaders from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, and the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Medal.
Dr. Dombrowski specializes in naval strategy, science and security.
He has written Balance Sheet: The Iraq War and U.S. National Security and Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry (co-authored with Eugene Gholz), Policy Responses to the Globalization of American Banking, and Military Transformation and the Defense Industry After Next: The Defense Industrial Implications of Network-Centric Warfare (co-authored with Andrew Ross and Eugene Gholz). He edited Guns and Butter: the Political Economy of the New International Security Environment and Naval Power in the Twenty-first Century: a Naval War College Review Reader.
He received his B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.