Jeffrey W. Legro

Jeffrey W. Legro

E-mail: legro@virginia.edu

Phone: 434-924-3958

Jeffrey W. Legro is Compton Professor of World Politics and Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is a Faculty Associate in the Governing America in a Global Era Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. A specialist on international relations, Legro has served as a consultant to foundations, think tanks, publishers, and government agencies. He is currently the chair of an American Political Science Association Task Force on U.S. standing in the world. Legro is co-editor, with fellow GAGE Faculty Associate Melvyn P. Leffler, of To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine (2008); the author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (2005) and Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II (1995); and a contributor to The Culture of National Security (1996). Legro has written articles on such topics as American foreign policy, international cooperation and conflict, international norms and law, military doctrine and strategy, and the causes of foreign policy revolutions. He is on the editorial board of the Washington Quarterly. In 2002–2003, Legro was a Fulbright professor at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing.