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Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990), works in international relations and national security studies. Since 1999, Feaver has been the Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS). From 1998-2001, Feaver was co-Principal Investigator of a large multi-personnel research initiative under TISS auspices, "Project on the Gap between the Military and Civilian Society." Born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, he was educated at Lehigh University (B.A., International Relations and College Scholar, Summa Cum Laude, 1983) and Harvard University (A.M., Political Science, 1986; Ph.D. Political Science, 1990) where he concentrated on the politics of American national security, especially civil-military relations and the nuclear weapons. Feaver is finishing a book-length manuscript, Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations, and is co-authoring a separate book with Christopher Gelpi, Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force. In addition, has research projects ongoing in the areas of nuclear proliferation, and information warfare. Feaver is author of Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons (Cornell Press, 1992), and co-author or co-editor of several other monographs. He has published over thirty articles and book chapters on nuclear proliferation, civil military relations, information warfare, and U.S. national security. He has also published numerous reviews and opinion pieces in a variety of journals and media outlets. Feaver has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Olin Institute at Harvard University, the Mershon Center at Ohio State University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 1993-94, Feaver served as Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council at the White House where his responsibilities included counterproliferation policy, regional nuclear arms control, the national security strategy review, and other defense policy issues. Feaver has won the Duke Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (2001) and the Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award (1994-95). He has also won a Navy Commendation Medal (1994). He is on the editorial board of Security Studies and Armed Forces and Society and on the governing board of the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association and of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Assocation. He is a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve (IRR). Peter D. Feaver
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