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Senior Fellow

Peter Trubowitz is Associate Professor of Government and specializes in US foreign policy and international relations. Dr. Trubowitz has held research and teaching positions at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, the University of California at San Diego, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Universidad de Chile, and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Trubowitz worked on defense issues at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The author of Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy (Chicago) and The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests (Columbia), Dr. Trubowitz has published numerous articles, chapters, and commentary on US foreign policy, and American politics. His book, Defining the National Interest, won the J. David Greenstone Book Award from the American Political Science Association. Dr. Trubowitz is currently writing a book on how presidents make grand strategy.

Dr. Trubowitz has received grants and fellowships from various foundations including the John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur and John M. Olin Foundations and the Social Science Research Council. In 2002-03, he was J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing, China. He is also a recipient of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award here at the University of Texas.

Dr. Trubowitz received his B.A. from Clark University, where he graduated with honors and highest distinction, and his Ph.D. from MIT.

Selected Research:

• "Dead Center: The Demise of Liberal Internationalism in the United States," International Security, Fall 2007

Selected Commentary:

• "Making peace with Americans," Los Angeles Times, Oct 2007