Dan Reiter, Emory University
Council, 2007-09

Dan Reiter is professor and, starting in fall 2007, chair of the department of political science at Emory University. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University in 1989 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1994. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Olin Institute at Harvard from 1994–1995. He served as a Winship Research professor at Emory from 2000–2003. He has authored or coauthored three books and monographs, Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars (1996), Democracies at War (2002) (with Allan C. Stam), and Preventive War and Its Alternatives: The Lessons of History (2006). His books, articles, and chapters in edited volumes cover an array of topics, including the democratic peace, the Bush Doctrine, why democracies win wars, international alliances, the causes of suicide terrorism, the international sources of democratization, military strategy, the causes of war, counter-proliferation strategy, coercive airpower, learning in foreign policy, the application of advanced statistical methods to international relations scholarship, rally ‘round the flag effects, nationalism and military effectiveness, and others.

In 2002, he received the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association, an award “presented 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.” His current research focuses on war termination, absolute war, postwar peace duration, and the bargaining model of war.