Dan Reiter APSA Candidate Statement

Career and Accomplishments

Dan Reiter received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1994.  He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Olin Institute in 1994-1995, and since then has taught at Emory University, where he served for five years as director of graduate studies and is now full professor and department chair.  In 2002, he received the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association, given “annually to a scholar under the age of forty, or within ten years of the acquisition of his or her Doctoral Degree, who is judged to have made, through a body of publications, the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research.”  Dr. Reiter has published three books and monographs, including Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars (Cornell, 1996) and, with Allan C. Stam, Democracies at War (Princeton, 2002).  He has also published 22 articles in refereed, academic journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, Journal of Politics, International Security, and others.  He has served on the editorial board of Journal of Politics, and is slated to serve on the editorial board of International Studies Notes.  He has served on the ISA Deutsch Award committee, and the APSA Helen Dwight Reed Award committee.  His past research interests have included learning and foreign policy, alliances, the causes of war, the democratic peace, the determinants of war outcomes, terrorism, the bargaining model and war, the international determinants of democratization, the Bush Doctrine, nuclear non-proliferation policy, “rally ‘round the flag,” statistical methodology, coercive airpower, military strategy, and others.  His primary current research interests include war termination and the determinants of postwar peace.