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Elizabeth N. Saunders

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Monroe 468
2115 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-1437
Fax: (202) 994-7743
E-mail: esaunder@gwu.edu
Homepage: http://home.gwu.edu/~esaunder

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University

Expertise:

International security, U.S. foreign policy

Background:

Elizabeth N. Saunders is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Her research and teaching interests focus on international security and foreign policy. Her main research project examines how leaders shape military interventions, including both the decision to intervene and the choice of intervention strategy. Her doctoral dissertation, "Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions," received Yale University's John Addison Porter Prize, a university-wide student prize for scholarship in any field. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University; a visiting scholar at the American Political Science Association's Centennial Center; a Brookings Institution Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies; and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and the International Studies Review.

Courses Taught:

PSc 146 U.S. Foreign Policy
PSc 246 US Foreign Policy Making
Psc 289 Military Intervention

Last update: 10/14/2009