Colin Dueck

Schar School of Policy and Government George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
cdueck@gmu.edu

January 2019

POSITION

Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, 2016-present

Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, 2017-2019

Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2013-present

Associate Professor in the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University, 2014-2016

Graduate Director in Political Science, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University, 2011-2013

Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University, 2008-2014

Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University, 2006-2008

Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2001-2006

EDUCATION

• Harvard University, John M. Olin Post-Doctoral Fellowship in National Security Studies, 2002-2003.
• Princeton University, PhD in Politics, 1995-2001.
• Oxford University, MPhil in International Relations under a Rhodes scholarship, 1993- 1995.
• University of Saskatchewan, BA, MA in History, 1986-1992.

CITIZENSHIP

American

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Age of Iron: On Conservative Nationalism (forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2019).
• The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today (Oxford University Press, 2015).
• Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II (Princeton University Press, 2010).
• Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 2006; paperback edition 2008). Awarded Choice magazine outstanding academic title for 2007.

Articles and book chapters

• “The Future of Conservative Foreign Policy,” Texas National Security Review, November 30, 2018.
• “Foreign Policy and the 2018 Midterms,” a Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Note, October 26, 2018.
• “GOP Foreign Policy Opinion in the Trump Era,” a Foreign Policy Research Institute E- Note, April 20, 2018.
• “Conservative American Realism,” in James McCormick, ed., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), 43-58.
• “Winter is coming: Observations from the Baltic States,” Center for European Policy Analysis, October 18, 2017.
• “Theodore Roosevelt and American Realism,” Orbis 61:4 (Fall 2017), 541-60.
• “Republican Party Foreign Policy,” in Maud Quessard and Maya Kandel, eds., Les Etats- Unis et la Fin de la Grande Strategie? (Paris: Institut de Recherche Strategique de l’Ecole Militaire, September 2017), 225-234.
• Co-authored with Ted Bromund and Michael Auslin: “Reclaiming American Realism,” American Affairs 1:2 (Summer 2017), pp. 184-198.
• “U.S. Strategic Culture: Liberalism with Limited Liability,” in Ashley Tellis, Alison Szalwinski and Michael Wills, eds., Strategic Asia 2016-17: Understanding Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific (Seattle, WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2016), pp. 194-218.
• “Republican Party Foreign Policy: 2016 and Beyond,” a Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Note, July 2016.
• “Strategic Planning for the Next President,” Orbis 60:3 (Summer 2016), pp. 331-352.
• “Hoover and Offshore Foreign Policy, 1921-1933,” Orbis 60:1 (Winter 2016), pp. 4-21.
• “Strategic Planning for the Next President, Part Two: Recommendations for the NSC Process,” a Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Note, January 2016
• “Strategic Planning for the Next President, Part One: The Downside of Defeatism,” a Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Note, January 2016
• "The Strategy of Retrenchment and its Consequences," a Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Note, April 2015
• "The Role of the National Security Advisor," Orbis 58:1 (Winter 2014), pp. 15-38.
• "Geopolitics Reborn," a Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Note, July 2013.
• “The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (Oxford University Press, 2013)
• “Nuclear Nonproliferation and Obama,” Orbis 56:3 (Summer 2012), pp. 503-512.
• “Jacksonian Republicans: Hawks are set to steer the GOP’s election-year foreign policy debate,” American Review: Global Perspectives on America (February 2012)
• "Ideas, American Grand Strategy, and the War in Iraq," in Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? Jane Cramer and Trevor Thrall, eds. (Routledge, 2011), pp. 49-71.
• “The Accommodator: Obama’s Foreign Policy,” Policy Review 169 (October-November 2011)
• “Hybrid Strategies: The American Experience,” Orbis, Volume 55, No. 1 (Winter 2011), pp. 30-52.
• “Regaining a Realistic Foreign Policy,” Policy Review 162 (August-September 2010)
• “Presidents, Domestic Politics, and Major Military Interventions,” in Neoclassical Realism and the State, Steven Lobell, Norrin Ripsman, and Jeffrey Taliaferro, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 139-169.
• Co-authored with Ray Takeyh: “Iran’s Nuclear Challenge,” Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, No. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 1-17.
• “The Politics of Quagmire,” The National Interest, No. 86 (November/December 2006), pp. 39-42.
• “Strategies for Managing Rogue States,” Orbis, Volume 50, No. 2 (Spring 2006), pp. 223-241.
• “Realism, Culture and Grand Strategy: Explaining America’s Peculiar Path to World Power,” Security Studies, Volume 14, No. 2 (April-June 2005), pp. 195-231.
• “Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 2000-2004,” Review of International Studies, Volume 30 (October 2004), pp. 511-535.
• “New Perspectives on American Grand Strategy,” International Security, Volume 28, No. 4 (Spring 2004), pp. 197-216.
• “Hegemony on the Cheap: Liberal Internationalism, From Wilson to Bush,” World Policy Journal, Volume 20, No. 4 (Winter 2003/04), pp. 1-11.
• “The Sources of American Expansion,” Security Studies, Volume 11, No. 1 (Autumn 2001), pp. 171-189.
• “Détente” and “NSC-68” articles in History in Dispute: The Cold War (2000)

Selected op-eds

• Co-authored with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI): “The Conservative Case for NATO,” National Review, January 30, 2019
• “Trump’s Strategic Unpredictability, Its Pros and Cons,” National Review, December 28, 2018
• “Can a Democrat Win in Virginia’s Fifth District?” National Review, September 20, 2018
• “The Hard Way: John McCain,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, August 31, 2018
• “Will Trump’s Pressure Campaign Work?” The National Interest, July 25, 2018
• “How to Defend the West,” National Review, February 7, 2018
• “Trump’s National Security Strategy,” The National Interest, January 9, 2018
• Co-authored with Dr. Ming Wan: “An Era of Great-Power Leaders,” The National Interest, November 7, 2017
• “This Is the Key to a Successful Trump Foreign Policy,” The National Interest, May 25, 2017
• “Cowboy Diplomacy,” Claremont Review, March 27, 2017
• “Trump, Europe, and the Quest to Save NATO,” War on the Rocks, February 3, 2017
• “Tillerson the Realist,” a Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Note, January 2017
• “Strategic Planning for the New Administration,” Hoover Institution, December 15, 2016
• “A Letter to Republican Friends,” National Review, November 18, 2016
• “A Nuclear-Armed Trump?” National Review, March 7, 2016
• “The Problem with Trump,” Ricochet, February 21, 2016
• “Donald Trump: American Nationalist,” The National Interest, November 3, 2015
• “The Iran Deal and Foreign Policy in 2016,” Hoover Institution, October 15, 2015
• “Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy Problem,” The National Interest, August 13, 2015
• “Who Needs to Bone Up on Foreign Policy?” National Review, June 11, 2015
• “When Doves Cry,” Ricochet, May 18, 2015
• “The Real Obama Doctrine,” The National Interest, April 28, 2015
• Co-authored with Roger Zakheim: "Unleashed," The National Interest, March 20, 2015
• Co-authored with Roger Zakheim: "Why We Like Ike," National Review, January 13, 2015
• Co-authored with Roger Zakheim: "Toward a Reform-Conservative Foreign Policy," National Review, January 5, 2015
• "Why is Obama's Foreign Policy So Unpopular?" Ricochet, July 28, 2014
• "A GOP Civil War?" Ricochet, June 30, 2014
• "Warm Porridge at West Point," RealClearPolitics, May 29, 2014
• "Ukrainian Unrest and Obama's Failed Reset," Ricochet, February 21, 2014
• "The Rand Paul Bubble," Foreign Affairs, January 29, 2014
• "On Iran, Expect a Fool's Bargain," Ricochet, November 15, 2013
• "The GOP and the Arab Winter," Ricochet, August 21, 2013
• "Rand, Rubio, and 2016," Ricochet, April 2, 2103
• "Obama's Strategic Denial," The National Interest, March 27, 2013
• "Is Obama Like Eisenhower?" Ricochet, January 29, 2013
• "Diversionary Peace," Ricochet, November 8, 2012
• "The Debates," Ricochet, October 24, 2012
• "Romney's Foreign Policy," Ricochet, October 9, 2012
• "A 'Smarter' Foreign Policy," Ricochet, September 1, 2012
• “The GOP Primaries and Foreign Policy,” RealClearPolitics, January 25, 2012
• “The Tea Party is Not Isolationist,” New York Times online, October 12, 2011
• “GOP Foreign Policy in Opposition,” RealClearPolitics, September 21, 2011
• “Perry, the GOP, and Cowboy Diplomacy,” RealClearPolitics, September 1, 2011
• "Pawlenty the Hawk," National Review Online, July 8, 2011
• “GOP Isolationist? No, Just More Jacksonian,” RealClearPolitics, June 20, 2011
• “The Al Davis Doctrine,” National Review Online, June 20, 2011
• “Conservative Foreign Policy and Reagan’s Legacy,” RealClearPolitics, March 22, March 30, and April 8, 2011
• “Surging Tea Party Will Not Lead to Isolationism,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 28, 2010

Book reviews and review essays

• Review of Niall Ferguson’s Kissinger. Volume I. 1923-1968: The Idealist, in H- Diplo/ISSF, September 16, 2016
• Review of Choosing to Lead, by the John Hay Initiative, published in National Review, September 29, 2015
• Review of Henry Nau's Conservative Internationalism, published in National Review, October 14, 2013
• "Geography and World Politics," Claremont Review of Books (Spring 2013)
• Review of Stephen Brooks, John Ikenberry and William Wohlforth's "Don't Come Home, America," International Security 37:3, in H-Diplo/ISSF, April 5, 2013
• “Bringing out the Good China,” Claremont Review of Books (Spring 2012)
• “How Wars End,” Claremont Review of Books (Winter 2011/12)
• “The End of the End of History,” a review of Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier’s America Between the Wars, John Dumbrell’s Clinton’s Foreign Policy, Robert Kagan’s The Return of History and the End of Dreams, and Parag Khanna’s The Second World, published in The Claremont Review of Books (Fall 2009)
• Review of Robert Kaufman’s In Defense of the Bush Doctrine, published in The National Interest, No.89 (May/June 2007)
• Review of Christopher Layne’s The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present, published in Perspectives on Politics 5:1 (March 2007)
• Review of Richard Ned Lebow’s The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders, published in Journal of Politics 67:2 (May 2005)
• Review of Arnold Offner’s Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953, published in Presidential Studies Quarterly 34:4 (December 2004)
• Review of John Mearsheimer’s The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, published in Survival 44:3 (Autumn 2002)

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY

• House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, "The Quadrennial Defense Review: Process, Policy, and Perspectives," February 24, 2013

CONFERENCE AND PANEL PRESENTATIONS

• “Foreign Policy and the 2018 Midterm Elections,” a panel discussion with Tom Davis, Myra Miller, Rick Dearborn, and Karlyn Bowman, at the American Enterprise Institute, October 23, 2018, Washington, DC.
• “Discussion of Nationalism and Sovereignty,” a panel discussion with Yoram Hazony, Matt Spalding, and Ryan Williams, at Hillsdale College, October 10, 2018, Washington, DC.
• “What is the United States’ Role in the World?” a talk delivered at Vanderbilt University, October 9, 2018, Nashville, TN.
• “America engaged: attitudes toward US global leadership,” a panel discussion with Ivo Daalder, Dina Smeltz, Karlyn Bowman, and Dany Pletka, at the American Enterprise Institute, October 2, 2018, Washington, DC.
• “Restoring Trust: How Can the American Public Regain its Confidence in its National Security Apparatus?” a panel discussion with Kori Schake and Nikolas Gvosdev, at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, June 11, 2018, New York, NY.
• “Teddy Roosevelt – an American Realist,” a talk delivered at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 25, 2018, Washington, DC.
• “NATO and the Future of the International Order,” a discussion with Ambassador Richard Kauzlarich and Dr. Ellen Laipson, April 18, 2018, George Mason University, Arlington, VA.
• “A Conservative Nationalist Foreign Policy?” a talk given to the AEI Eastern Region Policy Summit, February 24, 2018, Charlottesville, VA.
• “Assessing the Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy,” a panel discussion with Michael Allen, Ted Bromund, and Paul Lettow, at the Heritage Foundation, January 12, 2018, Washington, DC.
• “Winter is Coming: Russia, the Baltic States, and U.S. Policy in Europe,” a panel discussion with Ted Bromund and Jakub Grygiel, at the Heritage Foundation, November 14, 2017, Washington, DC.
• “Rethinking the U.S. Strategic Approach to Baltic Security Challenges,” a panel discussion with Peter Doran and Donald Jensen, Center for European Policy Analysis, October 25, 2017, Washington, DC.
• “Conservative Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy,” a roundtable discussion with Drs. Nikolas Gvosdev and Ray Takeyh, at the Council on Foreign Relations, April 11, 2017, Washington, DC.
• “Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy,” a roundtable discussion with Drs. Keith Shimko, Michael Desch, Peter Feaver, and Christopher Layne, at the International Studies Association annual convention, February 22, 2017, Baltimore, MD.
• “The Presidential Election and its Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy,” a panel discussion with Scooter Libby, Kori Schake, and Lee Smith, at the Hoover Institution, December 12, 2016, Washington, DC.
• “Concepts of Power in the Asia-Pacific,” a panel discussion with Ashley Tellis and Nadege Rolland, The National Bureau of Asian Research, November 16, 2016, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Spalding, Claremont McKenna College, November 15, 2016, Washington, DC.
• “Republican Party Foreign Policy: 2016 and Beyond,” a paper presented at the University of Poitiers, October 14, 2016, Poitiers, France.
• “The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today,” a panel discussion with Drs. William Keylor, Pierre Melandri, Gary Schmitt, and Frederic Heurtebize, at the University of Poitiers, October 13, 2016, Poitiers, France.
• “Foreign Policy in the 2016 Election: Looking Forward from the Obama/Clinton Legacy,” a panel discussion with Drs. Daniel Byman and Matthew Kroenig, Georgetown University, September 20, 2016, Washington, DC.
• “Foreign Policy and the 2016 Election,” a panel discussion with Drs. Robert Deitz, Janine Wedel, Mark Katz, and Ming Wan, Schar School of Policy and Government, September 12, 2016, Fairfax, VA.
• “U.S. Offshore Strategy in the 1920s,” a discussion with Dr. Jakub Grygiel of Johns Hopkins SAIS, May 12, 2016, Washington, DC.
• “America in the World 2017: The Future of U.S. Grand Strategy,” a discussion with Michele Flournoy and Richard Fontaine of the Center for a New American Security, April 22, 2016, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a debate with Dr. Joshua Busby at the University of Texas, April 11, 2016, Austin, TX.
• “Is American Grand Strategy Possible?” a paper presented at the International Studies Association annual convention, March 17, 2016, Atlanta, GA.
• “Goodbye Hegemony, Hello Multiplex World?” a roundtable discussion with Drs. Amitav Acharya, Simon Reich, Oliver Stuenkel, and Yaqing Qin, at the International Studies Association annual convention, March 16, 2016, Atlanta, GA.
• “Grand Strategy in Action,” a panel discussion with Dean Cheng, Sebastian Gorka, and James Carafano, at the Heritage Foundation, March 11, 2016, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a talk delivered at the College of William and Mary’s Washington Center, January 11, 2016, Washington, DC.
• “When Should America Act to Maintain International Order?” a panel discussion with former Congressman Mike Rogers, Ben Friedman, Brian Hook, and Francois-Henri Briard, at the annual convention of the Federalist Society, November 13, 2015, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a debate with Dr. Bruce Jentleson at George Washington University, November 10, 2015, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a talk delivered at Harvard University’s Program on Constitutional Government, October 30, 2015, Cambridge, MA.
• “The Pivotal Moment: How the Iran Deal Frames America’s Foreign Policy Choices,” a panel discussion with James Carafano and Kim Holmes at the Heritage Foundation, October 6, 2015, Washington, DC.
• “A Consensus American Grand Strategy for the Post-Obama Era,” a panel discussion with Drs. Paul Carrese and Jakub Grygiel at the Hudson Institute, September 24, 2015, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a talk delivered at the Institute of World Politics, June 24, 2015, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a talk delivered to the Alexander Hamilton Society, June 13, 2015, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a talk delivered at American University, June 12, 2015, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a talk delivered at the Hoover Institution, June 4, 2015, Washington, DC.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a talk delivered at Seattle Town Hall, June 1, 2015, Seattle, WA.
• “The Obama Doctrine,” a talk delivered at the Heritage Foundation, May 13, 2015, Washington, DC.
• "The Obama Doctrine," a talk delivered at the American Enterprise Institute, May 11, 2015, Washington, DC.
• "The Obama Doctrine," an interview with Ron Granieri, Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 5, 2015, Philadelphia, PA.
• "The Obama Doctrine," a talk delivered at George Mason University, April 29, 2015, Fairfax, VA.
• "What's Wrong with Obama's Foreign Policy?" a debate with Dr. Trevor Thrall, George Mason University, April 21, 2015, Fairfax, VA.
• "The Obama Doctrine," a talk delivered at Princeton University, April 13, 2015, Princeton, NJ.
• "U.S. Foreign Policy in the Obama Administration," a debate with Dr. Joshua Rovner at Southern Methodist University, October 30, 2014, Dallas, TX.
• "The Obama Doctrine," a talk delivered at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, September 25, 2014, Durham, NC.
• "Obama's Foreign Policy: What Is It, and Is It Working?" a debate with Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, George Mason University, November 5, 2013, Fairfax, VA.
• "The Syria Crisis," a panel discussion with Drs. Peter Mandaville, Bassam Haddad, Greg Koblentz, and Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University, September 18, 2013, Fairfax, VA.
• "A New Look at American Foreign Policy," a panel discussion with Kim Holmes and Paul Saunders, at the Heritage Foundation, August 28, 2013, Washington, DC.
• "U.S. Grand Strategy: Intended and Actual Outcomes," a panel presentation at the Naval War College Current Strategy Forum, June 18, 2013, Newport, RI.
• "Offshore Balancing and the Obama Doctrine," presented at the American Enterprise Institute, May 9, 2013, Washington, DC.
• "The American Experience with Hybrid Strategies," presented at The Institute of World Politics, November 14, 2012, Washington, DC.
• Panelist and commentator, "Retrenchment and/or Renewal: Grand Strategy in Times of Fiscal Restraint," University of North Carolina, November 10, 2012, Chapel Hill, NC.
• "The Foreign Policy of the Obama Administration," a panel discussion with Drs. Daniel Deudney and Steven David, Johns Hopkins University, October 25, 2012, Baltimore, MD.
• "The Obama Doctrine vs. the Romney Doctrine," a panel discussion with Dr. Marc Gopin at George Mason University's School of Public Policy, October 22, 2012, Arlington, VA.
• "Grand Strategy in the Next Four Years," panel presentation at the annual conference of the Alexander Hamilton Society, October 13, 2012, Washington, DC.
• "U.S. Foreign Policy Strategy under a Romney Administration," an address given to the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, August 28, 2012, Oslo, Norway.
• "Does President Obama have a Grand Strategy?" a debate with Dr. Daniel Drezner of Tufts University, sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Society, June 17, 2012, Washington, DC.
• "The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II," an address given at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, September 22, 2011, Philadelphia, PA.
• “Foreign Policy in the 112^th Congress,” presented at the Foreign Policy Initiative, November 15, 2010, Washington, DC.
• “Republicans, Conservatives, and Foreign Policy,” presented at the Heritage Foundation, October 28, 2010, Washington, DC.
• “The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy,” presented at the Nixon Center, October 25, 2010, Washington, DC.
• “The New Conservative Foreign Policy Realism,” presented at George Washington University’s Elliot School, October 21, 2010, Washington, DC.
• “Foreign Policy Realism and the Republican Party,” presented at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, October 4, 2010, Charlottesville, VA.
• “Theodore Roosevelt and Cowboy Diplomacy,” presented at Johns Hopkins-SAIS, September 30, 2010, Washington, DC.
• “Hybrid Strategies: The American Experience,” a paper presented at a conference co- hosted by Peking University and Texas A&M, May 20, 2010, Beijing, China.
• Co-organized conference with Drs. Aaron Friedberg and Jakub Grygiel on “Conservatism and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Age of Obama,” held at Princeton University, November 5-7, 2009, Princeton, NJ.
• Organized and presented paper at panel entitled “Party Politics and Foreign Policy,” at the International Studies Association’s annual convention, February 16, 2009, New York, NY.
• “Presidents, Domestic Politics, and Major Military Interventions,” a paper presented at the University of Virginia’s Department of Politics, April 11, 2008, Charlottesville, VA.
• Organized and presented paper at panel entitled “Why Realists Disagree about American Foreign Policy,” at the International Studies Association’s annual convention, March 28, 2008, San Francisco, CA.
• Co-organized a conference with Dr. Aaron Friedberg on “Conservatism and American Foreign Policy,” held at Princeton University, May 1-3, 2008, Princeton, NJ.
• “Presidents, Politics, and War,” presented at the American Political Science Association’s annual convention, September 1, 2007, Chicago, IL.
• “The Wilsonian Tradition and its Alternatives,” presented at Johns Hopkins’ SAIS International Relations Program, February 28, 2007, Washington, DC.

REFEREE

• Cambridge University Press, Congressional Quarterly Press, Contemporary Security Policy, Cornell University Press, Diplomatic History, European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Georgetown University Press, International Relations, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, Journal of American History, Journal of Global Security Studies, Millenium, Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Perspectives on Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Princeton University Press, Review of International Studies, Routledge, Security Studies, Stanford University Press, SUNY Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Michigan Press, University Press of Kentucky, W.W. Norton.

COURSES TAUGHT

George Mason University

International Relations Theory - GOVT 322
American Foreign Policy - GOVT 344
American National Security Policy - GOVT 346
Issues in International Studies: Grand Strategy - GOVT 444
Synthesis Seminar: Conservative Political Thought - GOVT 490
International Relations, graduate seminar - GOVT 540
American Foreign Policy, graduate seminar - GOVT 741
International Security, graduate seminar - GOVT 745
PhD Research Seminar - GOVT 800
Grand Strategy, graduate seminar – PUBP 504

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

• Outstanding Scholar Award, George Mason University’s School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, 2016.
• Celebration of Scholarship Award, George Mason University, 2012.
• John M. Olin Post-Doctoral Fellow, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, 2002-2003.
• Princeton Wilson Fellowship, Society of Fellows of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University, 1999-2000.
• Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, Princeton University, 1995-1997.
• Princeton Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University, 1995-1999.
• Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford University, 1993-1995.