Elizabeth N. Saunders
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Ph.D., Yale University, 2007
Office: Monroe 468
Phone: (202) 994-1437
Fax: (202) 994-7743
Email: esaunder@gwu.edu
Website: http://home.gwu.edu/~esaunder
Expertise
International security, U.S. foreign policy
Background
Professor Saunders's research and teaching interests focus on international security and foreign policy. Her main research project examines how leaders shape military interventions, including both the decision to intervene and the choice of intervention strategy. Her doctoral dissertation, “Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions,” received Yale University’s John Addison Porter Prize, a university-wide student prize for scholarship in any field. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University; a visiting scholar at the American Political Science Association’s Centennial Center; a Brookings Institution Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies; and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and the International Studies Review.
