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Charles Glaser

    Term

    September 2, 2014 — May 22, 2015

    Professional affiliation

    Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, George Washington University (Former Wilson Center Fellow)

    Wilson Center Projects

    "Analyzing U.S. National Security Policy toward China"

    Full Biography

    Charles L. Glaser is professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, and is the Director of the Elliott School’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies.  His research focuses on international relations theory and international security policy.  Glaser is currently working on energy security and on U.S.  policy toward China.  Glaser holds a Ph.D. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard  University. He received a BS in Physics from MIT, and an MA in Physics and an MPP from Harvard. Before joining the George Washington University, Glaser was the Emmett Dedmon Professor of Public Policy and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He has also taught political science at the University of Michigan; was a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford; served on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon; was a peace fellow at the United States Institute of Peace; and was a research associate at the Center of International Studies at MIT.

    Major Publications

    Rational Theory of International Politics: Logic of Competition and Cooperation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010

    “How Oil Influences U.S. National Security,” International Security (Fall 2013)

    “Will China’s Rise Lead to War?: Why Realism Does Not Mean Pessimism,” Foreign Affairs, (March/April 2011).