Education:
Ph.D., University of Southampton
Expertise:
U.S. arms sales policies, U.S. counter-proliferation policies, and transatlantic relations
Background:
Dr. Spear is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Elliott School's Security Policy Studies Program. Previously, she served as Director of GW's U.S. Foreign Policy Institute. Before joining GW, Dr. Spear was Director of the Graduate Research Program and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, King's College, London. In addition, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution.
Dr. Spear is the author of Carter and Arms Sales: Implementing the Carter Administration's Arms Transfer Restraint Policy (Macmillan 1995), and The Changing Political Economy of the International Defense Trade in the Twenty-first Century (forthcoming, Brookings Institution). She is also the co-editor of The Changing Labour Party with Martin J. Smith (Routledge, 1992), and has written numerous book chapters and articles. Her research interests also include the global defense trade and post-conflict reconstruction. Dr. Spear has worked with the Governments of Japan and Norway on issues of small arms and political economies of conflict.
Courses Taught:
IAff 190 Transnational Security Threats
IAff 275 Transnational Security Policy
Last update: 10/25/2007
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