Leadership Team

AGS is led by its founder and director, Dr. Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy at Duke University. 

Peter D. Feaver, Director

Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. From June 2005 to July 2007, Feaver was on leave to be Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council Staff at the White House where his responsibilities included the national security strategy, regional strategy reviews, and other political-military issues. Feaver is author of Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (Harvard Press, 2003) and of Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992). He is co-author, with Christopher Gelpi and Jason Reifler, of Paying the Human Costs of War (Princeton University Press, 2009), co-author, with Susan Wasiolek and Anne Crossn, of Getting the Most Out of College (Ten Speed Press, 2008), and co-author, 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, ma2001). He has published numerous other monographs, scholarly articles, book chapters, and policy pieces on American foreign policy, public opinion, nuclear proliferation, civil-military relations, information warfare, and U.S. national security. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and blogs at shadow.foreignpolicy.com. In 1993-94, Feaver served as Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council at the White House where his responsibilities included the national security strategy review, counterproliferation policy, regional nuclear arms control, and other defense policy issues.

 

 

Bo Carlson, Program Coordinator

Bo Carlson '20 has joined AGS for the spring semester of 2021. While at Duke, Bo was a member of AGS Council and majored in economics and political science, graduating summa cum laude. He previously interned at the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Bo has been published by CSIS, the National Interest, and El Faro, a Spanish-language newspaper. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese and studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Reach Bo at bo.carlson@duke.edu

 

 

Rebecca Dudley, Graduate Fellow

Rebecca Dudley is a Political Science PhD student with a concentration in security, peace, and conflict and a second field in methodology (applied statistics). Her research interests focus on conflict resolution and American foreign policy, with an emphasis on the institutional and individual mechanisms of resolving conflict. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and French Studies from Brigham Young University.

Reach Rebecca at rebecca.dudley@duke.edu.

 

Beth O'Brien, Program Assistant 

Beth provides programmatic support for AGS, the CTPP Fellowship Program and the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. 

Reach Beth at marybeth.obrien@duke.edu