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Peter D. Feaver

Peter D. Feaver

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Political Science

D-Index
27
Citations
8857
World Ranking
1408
National Ranking
699

Overview

Peter D. Feaver is affiliated with Duke University in the United States, specializing in the social sciences with a focus on political science and international relations. Their research portfolio comprises work across several subfields including economics and econometrics, enriching their broad disciplinary approach.

The primary topics of Peter D. Feaver's scholarship include military history and strategy, military and defense studies, defense, military, and policy studies, nuclear issues and defense, international relations and foreign policy, and American constitutional law and politics. This multidisciplinary coverage is reflected in their extensive publication record and research interests.

Feaver's recent published papers are as follows:

  • Right or Wrong? The Civil-Military Problematique and Armed Forces & Society's 50th, 2024, Armed Forces & Society
  • What Not to Worry About in the Policy-Academy Gap Debate: A Contrarian Take, 2021, Armed Forces & Society
  • The United States: Politicians, Partisans, and Military Professionals, 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • Replication Data for Thanks For Your Service and Technical Appendix, 2023, Harvard Dataverse

Feaver frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Armed Forces & Society
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • Harvard Dataverse

The scholar has collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Stephen Biddle
  • Hal Brands
  • Giles David Arceneaux
  • Damon Coletta

Best Publications

  • Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations

    Peter D. Feaver

  • The Civil-Military Problematique: Huntington, Janowitz, and the Question of Civilian Control:

    Peter D. Feaver

  • Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force

    Peter D. Feaver;Christopher Gelpi

  • Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq

    Christopher Gelpi;Peter D. Feaver;Jason Reifler

  • Paying the Human Costs of War: American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conflicts

    Christopher Gelpi;Peter Feaver;Jason Aaron Reifler

  • FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ELECTORAL CONNECTION

    John H. Aldrich;Christopher Gelpi;Peter Feaver;Jason Reifler

  • CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS

    Lindsay Cohn;Damon Coletta;Peter Feaver

  • Administrative Procedures and Political Control of the Bureaucracy

    Steven J. Balla;John Aldrich;Bill Bianco;John Brehm

  • CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS1

    Peter D. Feaver

  • Let's Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War

    Joseph M. Grieco;Christopher Gelpi;Jason Reifler;Peter D. Feaver

  • Guarding the guardians: Civilian control of nuclear weapons in the United States

    Peter Feaver

  • Soldiers and civilians : the civil-military gap and American national security

    Andrew J. Bacevich;Peter D. Feaver;Richard H. Kohn

  • Crisis as Shirking: An Agency Theory Explanation of the Souring of American Civil-Military Relations:

    Peter D. Feaver

  • The Right to Be Right: Civil-Military Relations and the Iraq Surge Decision

    Peter D. Feaver

  • Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick? Veterans in the Political Elite and the American Use of Force

    Christopher Gelpi;Peter D. Feaver

  • Command and Control in Emerging Nuclear Nations

    Peter D. Feaver

  • Iraq the Vote: Retrospective and Prospective Foreign Policy Judgments on Candidate Choice and Casualty Tolerance

    Christopher Gelpi;Jason Reifler;Peter Feaver

  • Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?)

    Peter D. Feaver;Gunther Hellmann;Randall L. Schweller;Jeffrey W. Taliaferro

  • Guarding the guardians

    Peter Feaver

  • Managing Nuclear Proliferation: Condemn, Strike, or Assist?

    Peter D. Feaver;Emerson M. S. Niou

  • Elite Military Cues and Public Opinion About the Use of Military Force

    James Golby;Peter Feaver;Kyle Dropp

  • Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security

    Peter Karsten;Peter D. Feaver;Richard H. Kohn

  • Choosing Your Battles

    Peter D. Feaver;Christopher Gelpi

  • CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS 1

    Peter D. Feaver

  • Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States

    Lawrence Badash;Peter Douglas Feaver

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Reifler
Jason Reifler University of Southampton
John H. Aldrich
John H. Aldrich Duke University
Andrew Moravcsik
Andrew Moravcsik Princeton University
Roger G. Noll
Roger G. Noll Stanford University
William C. Wohlforth
William C. Wohlforth Dartmouth College
Paul J. Wahlbeck
Paul J. Wahlbeck George Washington University
Emerson M. S. Niou
Emerson M. S. Niou Duke University
Richard K. Betts
Richard K. Betts Columbia University

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