Scholars@Duke
Peter D. Feaver

Peter D. Feaver CV

Professor of Political Science
Political Science
Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
287 Gross Hall, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708
CV

Academic Honors

Spirit of Inquiry Teaching Award, 1st Place

Other Unknown · December 2013

Spirit of Inquiry Teaching Prize, Second Place,

State Pope Center, Raleigh · November 2009

News Items

Published September 16, 2025
What Makes a Good Leader? Ret. Gen. CQ Brown Reflects
Published November 19, 2024
Preparing a New Generation of Military and National Security Strategists at Duke
Published November 8, 2024
Post Election Panel: Duke Experts Talk About What Happened in the Election
Published October 1, 2024
Judith Deckers Prize Finalists Announced
Published November 16, 2023
Army Secretary Talks About Recruiting Challenges, Effect of Political Polarization on Military
Published October 26, 2023
Good Reads for the Fall: New Books From Duke Authors
Published September 22, 2023
Coach K, Gen. Dempsey, Adam Silver, Sarah Hirshland to Discuss America’s Role in Global Sports
Published August 28, 2023
Thanks for Your Service: America’s High But Hollow Support for the Military
Published May 11, 2023
A ‘Staff Ride‘ in Italy Provides the Big Picture on Strategy and War
Published April 13, 2022
Exploring the Waters of Pearl Harbor
Published April 8, 2022
Team 2030 Report Charts Course for Duke's Future
Published November 12, 2021
'You Don’t Just Throw in The Towel Just Because You Don’t Like It'
Published October 18, 2021
Popular, Controversial and Consequential, Colin Powell Was “Quintessential Man in the Arena”
Published August 20, 2021
Six Duke-Penned Books to Prep for Back-to-School
Published February 26, 2021
Duke Government Relations
Faculty Offer Recommendations on National Security and Military-Civilian Relations
Published January 7, 2021
Lessons From the U.S. Capitol Riot
Published November 20, 2020
Duke in the News: Holiday Travel, COVID Testing, Middle Age Brains
Published October 30, 2020
Duke in the News: Family Political Divides; COVID Third Wave; Wilmington, 1898
Published October 9, 2020
Duke in the News: VP Debate, Economic Future and What to Expect on Election Night
Published April 15, 2020
Peter Feaver: Who Are Your Trusted Sources on COVID-19?
Published November 8, 2018
How the Trauma and Struggles of World War I Helped Shape the Modern World
Published January 11, 2018
Winter Forum: Shots Are Fired, A Crisis Ensues and Duke Students Try to Figure Out Solutions
Published November 14, 2017
Duke Professor Testifies on the Control of Nuclear Weapons
Published May 10, 2017
Faculty Members Say Firing of FBI Director Challenges Constitution, Democracy
Published February 14, 2017
An Uncommon Learning Experience: A 'Staff Ride' in Vietnam
Published January 6, 2017
The Future of US Global Military Commitments
Published November 9, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Can Donald Trump be a Good President?
Published November 1, 2016
It's Time To Reassess U.S. Grand Strategy
Published October 24, 2016
Zeroing In on the Price of US Defense
Published October 19, 2016
Power Struggle: Peter Feaver on the Growing Distrust Between the Civilian and Military Leadership
Published September 27, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: The world was watching Monday's debate, but the candidates had little to say about the rest of the world
Published September 14, 2016
The New York Times
Peter Feaver comments: Donald Trump's admiration of Putin's ruthless use of power
Published September 12, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: The candidates underperformed, not Matt Lauer
Published September 6, 2016
FiveThirtyEight.com
Peter Feaver Comments: Who Will Win the Military Vote?
Published August 12, 2016
Roll Call
Peter Feaver comments: House GOP report -- intelligence officials pressured to alter reports on ISIS
Published August 10, 2016
The Washington Post
Commentary: At annual experts' debate on strategy, zero Republicans make the case for Trump
Published August 5, 2016
PolitiFact
Peter Feaver comments: Did Trump campaign soften platform language to benefit Russia?
Published August 4, 2016
The Hill
Peter Feaver: Veteran community is not one that either candidate can afford to lose
Published August 3, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Controversy over military partisan cheerleading continues
Published August 3, 2016
The Hill
Peter Feaver comments: Fears grow as military pulled into presidential politics
Published August 3, 2016
Foreign Policy
Military Leaders as Partisan Cheerleaders
Published August 1, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: We don't need generals to become cheerleaders at political conventions
Published July 28, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: How should the United States respond to Russia's election meddling?
Published July 27, 2016
Foreign Policy
Russia’s Election Meddling
Published July 7, 2016
ABC-Australia’s “The World Today”
Foreign policy analysts concerned Donald Trump may not assemble network of expert advisers
Published June 17, 2016
News Tip: Obama's Syria Policy ‘An Exceedingly Slow-Motion Train-Wreck,’ Expert Says
Published June 15, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Taking the blame game too far
Published June 3, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: The bloody toll of non-intervention
Published May 31, 2016
CBC
Peter Feaver: Should Obama apologize for the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima?
Published May 25, 2016
Military.com
Peter Feaver comments: Inside Donald Trump's complex relationship with the military
Published May 23, 2016
Foreign Policy
Campaign Rhetoric Can Undo Foreign Policy
Published May 18, 2016
The New York Times
Peter Feaver comments: A combat veteran runs for Congress, and the scrutiny intensifies
Published May 9, 2016
The Christian Science Monitor
Peter Feaver comments: Why Trump-inspired Americans overthrew the GOP
Published May 4, 2016
News Tip: ‘Burden Now On Trump to Unify the Party,’ Expert Says
Published April 28, 2016
KCRW-Santa Monica’s “To the Point”
Peter Feaver Comments: Trump Gets 'Presidential'
Published April 22, 2016
TIME
Charles Dunlap, Peter Feaver discuss military generals and the presidency
Published April 19, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver, co-author: The (im)precise language of the Iran deal
Published April 18, 2016
The New York Times
Peter Feaver comments: Cruz's policies would herald shift to right
Published April 4, 2016
CNN
Peter Feaver comments: Donald Trump's bad week
Published March 24, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Is this the Trump list we have been waiting for?
Published March 23, 2016
The Christian Science Monitor
Havana speech: Why foreign addresses are a hallmark of Obama’s presidency
Published March 23, 2016
The New York Times
Peter Feaver comments: Top experts confounded by advisers to Donald Trump
Published March 22, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: So you wouldn’t work for Donald Trump?
Published March 22, 2016
Politico
Trump's foreign policy team baffles GOP experts
Published March 11, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: A dispatch from a train wreck -- Obama's national security legacy
Published March 8, 2016
The Washington Post
Peter Feaver comments: At U.S. Central Command, a solitary general prepares to step down
Published March 7, 2016
The New York Times
Peter Feaver: Country needs our A-team
Published March 7, 2016
The Straits Times, AFP
Peter Feaver comments: Trump backtracks on vows to torture terror suspects, kill their families
Published March 1, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Will the military obey President Trump's orders?
Published February 24, 2016
The Week
Peter Feaver: Would a President Trump ruin America's foreign policy -- or save it?
Published February 24, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Trump's national security policy would look like a high school model U.N.
Published February 8, 2016
Gen. Dempsey and Denis McDonough to Speak at Duke
Published January 28, 2016
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Obama might be doing the right thing in Afghanistan -- but is it too late?
Published January 20, 2016
The New York Times
Peter Feaver comments: Iran negotiations add to special envoy's reputation as 'a doer'
Published December 11, 2015
Huffington Post
Obama's tricky balancing act in getting Muslim-Americans to fight radicalization
Published December 9, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: President Obama should have given Senator Ben Sasse's speech
Published December 8, 2015
The Washington Post
Peter Feaver: After San Bernardino, how the foreign policy debate may be shifting for GOP candidates
Published December 7, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Obama's thin grey line
Published December 4, 2015
Duke Campaign Stop 2016
Jentleson and Feaver on Tensions Between Russia & Turkey (video)
Published December 4, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver, co-author: The coming wave of sanctions
Published December 3, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: In memoriam -- Samuel “Sandy” R. Berger
Published November 30, 2015
The New York Times
Peter Feaver quoted: Obama seeks to reassure skeptical public on ISIS fight
Published November 19, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Awkward questions for President Obama about fighting the Islamic State
Published November 17, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Are the Republicans all over the map on foreign policy?
Published October 27, 2015
Foreign Policy
Trump's Lack of a Foreign Policy
Published October 27, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Trump's foreign-policy legacy -- not having a foreign policy
Published October 21, 2015
General Abizaid: US Can't Turn Its Back on 'Chaos' in the Middle East
Published October 16, 2015
Former Middle East Commander Gen. Abizad to Speak at Duke
Published October 14, 2015
Foreign Policy
Commentary: The foreign policy question Democrats hope to avoid
Published October 13, 2015
Bloomberg
Commentary: For Democrats, this is the hard stuff
Published October 2, 2015
Politico Defense Pro
Dempsey heading to Duke
Published October 1, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: What the next president should learn from this one -- process matters
Published September 21, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver, co-author: Obama's sanctions flip-flop
Published September 10, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: Is it worth giving Obama advice he won’t listen to?
Published August 19, 2015
Foreign Relations
Peter Feaver: Hillary Clinton and the inconvenient facts about the rise of the Islamic State
Published August 19, 2015
Foreign Policy
Hillary Clinton and the Rise of Islamic State
Published August 12, 2015
KMPH-Fresno
Peter Feaver comments: Trump reveals how he would 'knock the hell out' of ISIS
Published August 6, 2015
New York Times
It’s either Iran nuclear deal or ‘some sort of war,’ Obama warns
Published July 22, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver, co-author: Do the Iran deal's 'snapback' sanctions have teeth?
Published July 15, 2015
The Washington Post
Peter Feaver comments: By embracing Iran deal, Hillary Clinton puts herself in a sales role
Published July 9, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: How to read the new national military strategy
Published July 8, 2015
The Christian Science Monitor
Peter Feaver: Why Greece and Iran seem willing to take on the world
Published July 1, 2015
Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver: The U.S. doesn't have a backup plan for negotiations with Iran