Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions
Professor Elizabeth Saunders
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Saunders
Date: October 10, 2008
Description:
Professor Elizabeth Saunders, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University
Elizabeth Saunders is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University. In 2007-2008, she was a postdoctoral fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.
Her research and teaching interests focus on international relations, and include international security, international relations theory, U.S. foreign policy, military interventions, strategy and military power, and the role of leaders and other domestic actors in international relations. Her current research focuses on the impact of leadership on decisions to undertake military interventions and the choice of intervention strategy. She has also published articles on the transatlantic debate over "rogue states" in the international system, and on the political and party preferences of immigrants in Europe.