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Elizabeth N. Saunders

Department of Political Science, George Washington University

Last updated: April 2012

 

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University. 

 

My research and teaching interests focus on international relations, and include international security, international relations theory, US foreign policy, military interventions, strategy and military power, and the role of leaders and other domestic actors in international relations.  My book, Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions, was published by Cornell University Press (in the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs series) in 2011, and received the 2012 Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Award from APSA’s International History and Politics section.  An article drawn from the book was published in the Fall 2009 issue of International Security.  I have also published articles on military force structure, the transatlantic debate over “rogue states” in the international system, and on the political and party preferences of immigrants in Europe.

 

In 2012-2013, I will be on leave as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  In 2007-2008, I was a postdoctoral fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. 

 

Please feel free to contact me for further information.