March 16, 2005

Speaker Biographies

Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University where he also serves as director of the university’s Center for International Relations. He is the author most recently of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (Oxford University Press, 2005). His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy (Harvard University Press, 2002) and The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2003). His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications to include The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today among other newspapers. In 2004 he was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Before joining the faculty of Boston University, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins.

Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy studies at AEI. He is the author of Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, 2004), AEI’s monthly National Security Outlook, and a forthcoming study, The Defense Requirements of the Bush Doctrine (AEI Press, 2005). In February 2005, he was appointed by Senator Bill Frist to a two-year term on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Before coming to AEI, he served as the director of strategic communications and initiatives at Lockheed Martin and as deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century. From 1995 to 1999, he was the policy group director, as well as a professional staff member, for the Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Donnelly has also been the executive director of The National Interest, editor of the Army Times, and deputy editor of Defense News.

Peter D. Feaver is the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS). He is co-directing a major research project funded by the Carnegie Corporation, “Wielding American Power: Managing Interventions after September 11.” He is author of Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (Harvard University Press, 2003), and coauthor, with Christopher Gelpi, of Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force (Princeton University Press, 2004). He is co-editor, with Richard H. Kohn, 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 several other monographs and over thirty articles and book chapters on American foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, civil-military relations, information warfare, and U.S. national security. He won the Duke Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2001 and the Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994–95. In 1993–94, he served as the director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council at the White House, where his responsibilities included counter-proliferation policy, regional nuclear arms control, the national security strategy review, and other defense policy issues. He is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve (IRR).

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