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Peter D. Feaver
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Professor of Political Science
Political Science
pfeaver@duke.edu
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6386-1463
Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
287 Gross Hall, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Other
Provocations on policymakers, casualty aversion and post-heroic warfare
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April 1, 2014
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Strategic Retrenchment and Renewal in the American Experience
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2014
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Eight Myths about American Grand Strategy
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October 2013
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Listening to the Generals: How Military Advice Affects Public Support for the Use of Force
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April 2013
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The Public Listens to Generals
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
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April 2013
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Hagel and the Veteran Effect: Service Tempers Views on the Use of Force
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TheDailyBeast.com
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February 2013
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When the Urgency of Time and Circumstances Clearly Does not Permit: Predelegation in Nuclear and Cyber Scenarios
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2013
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"Has the Obama Response to the Arab Revolutions Been Effective? Yes, Not Really, and Probably Too Soon to Tell"
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2013
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"Assessing Strategic Choices in the War on Terror"
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2013
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“Nuclear Command and Control in Crisis: Old Lessons from New History.”
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2013
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Shadow Government
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2013
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"Brass Politics: How Retired Military Officers are Shaping Elections"
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ForeignAffairs.com
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November 2012
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American Grand Strategy At the Crossroads: Leading From the Front, Leading From Behind, or Not Leading at All,”
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May 2012
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Common Fallacies and Uncommon Fixes in the American Grand Strategy Debate
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2012
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Coercive Diplomacy: Evaluating the Consequences of Financial Sanctions
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2010
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"The Ultimate Balancing Act: Democratic Governance and Nuclear Policy in the United States,"
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2010
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"Domestic Politics and the Long War"
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2010
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Before and After Huntington: The Methodological Maturing of Civil-Military Studies
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2009
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“What Was the Point of SPIR? Strategic Planning in National Security at the White House,”
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2009
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Interagency Perspective – Lessons
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2008
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Why We Went Into Iraq
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2008
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Pentagon Funding? Bring it On
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Foreign Policy Online
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2008
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MoveOn’s McCarthy Moment
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2007
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American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force
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2004
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The Reserves and Guard: Standing in the Gap Before and After 9/11
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2004
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Democratic Governance and Nuclear Policy in the United States
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2004
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Whose Military Vote?
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Washington Post
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2004
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Iraq Messages Need Honing
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Newsday
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2004
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Go Negative On the Allies
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2004
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Let UN Impose New Accountability
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2004
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The Clinton Mind-set
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2004
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The Fog of WMD
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2004
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Civil-Military Relations: Challenges and Opportunities
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2003
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Winning Back Old Europe
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2003
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Casualties Are the First Truth of War
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2003
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Don’t Substitute Spy Services for Leadership
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Raleigh News and Observer
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2003
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Will the UN Really Help?
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2003
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Body Bags Alone Won’t Dampen American Morale
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USA Today
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2003
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Axis of Rudeness
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2003
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Dithering Over Detainees
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2003
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Time for Another Goldwater-Nichols? Military Reform for a New Strategic Era
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2003
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Allies in War, Not in Perspective
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December 2001
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No More Mocking the President
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Parliamentary Brief
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December 2001
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Civilian Control to the Forefront
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Raleigh News and Observer
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October 2001
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To Maintain that Support, Show Us What Success Means
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October 2001
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Cold War II
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October 2001
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The Brits are All Right: Except for their Wobbly Elites
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September 2001
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There’s a Good Reason Those Civilians Were on the Sub
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February 2001
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Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil Military Gap and American National Security
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2001
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Introduction: The Gap Between the Military and Civilian in the United States in Perspective
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2001
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Uncertain Confidence: Civilian and Military Attitudes About Civil-Military Relations
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2001
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Conclusion: The Gap and What it Means for American National Security
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2001
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Gore Steps on a Land Mine
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January 2001
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The Public’s Expectations of National Security
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October 2000
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A Compassionate Foreign Policy?
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2000
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How Many Deaths are Acceptable? A Surprising Answer
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November 1999
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Don’t be Complacent about Public Confidence in the Military
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Contra Costa Times
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1999
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I Love Zhu, Zhu Love Me: Clinton’s China Policy
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1999
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La Guerre de L’Information et le Controle Politique de la Coercition
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1998
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El Control Civil en Pequeñas democracias: La Contribució de las Ciencias Politicas
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1997
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Lessons From Desert Storm: Iraqi Style
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Inter-University Seminar Newsletter
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1996
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Civil-Military Conflict and the Use of Force
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1995
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The Use and Control of Military Power
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1994
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Rethinking Key West: Service Roles and Missions after the Cold War
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1993
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Biographical chapter on Joseph S. Nye
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1993
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Social Sources of Inadvertent Nuclear Use in the Former Soviet Union: Civil-Military Relations and the Black Market
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1992
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Why Sanctions Are an Iffy Remedy
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1992
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Coup’s Lessons for Central Europe
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The Christian Science Monitor
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1991
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Generosity Begins Only After the Battle
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L.A. Times
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1991
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What Colors Should Our Soldiers Be?
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1991
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The Risk of Letting the Warriors Run a War
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Christian Science Monitor
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1991
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The Evolution of American Nuclear Doctrine
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1990
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Meeting Soviet Citizens’ Spiritual Needs
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Christian Science Monitor
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1990
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Does Moscow Know Where Its Nukes Are?
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L.A. Times
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1990
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Problem: Scare the Iraqis You Terrorize the Home Folks
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1990
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Vietnam’s Wrong Lesson in the Gulf
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Christian Science Monitor
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1990
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An Assessment of the Survivability of Unmanned Air Vehicles Performing Target Acquisition for Battlefield Nuclear Forces
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1990
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The Spread of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy: Promise or Peril
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1989
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Who Needs PALs
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October 1988
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Guestposted a discussion on Freakonomics webpage in connection with the second edition of Getting the Best Out of College (http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/11/28/how-to-get-the-best-out-of-college-your-questions-answered/)
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