The National Security Strategy

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Directors’ Seminar with Dr. Peter Feaver, former Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council, on Monday, September 25th. 

Peter D. Feaver is the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and the Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS). Feaver recently returned to Duke after working as the Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council at the White House, where he was responsible, amongst other things, for creating and projecting the White House Public Strategy on the Iraq War. 

Dr. Feaver received his Ph. D in Government from Harvard University in 1990 and is the author of various publications including Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (Harvard Press, 2003), and a co-author of Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force ( Princeton University Press, 2004). He is co-editor, of Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (MIT Press, 2001); and author of Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992). He has published over thirty articles and book chapters on American foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, civil-military relations, information warfare, and U.S. national security.

From 1993-1994, 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.  He currently serves as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve.