Dan Reiter

{{Short description|American political scientist (born 1967)}}

Dan Reiter (born 29 September 1967, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American political scientist. He is currently{{when|date=June 2021}} the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at the Department of Political Science at Emory University.{{cite web|last=Reiter|first=Dan|title=How War Will End in Afghanistan -- Even if Conflict Does Not|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/06/how_war_will_end_in_afghanistan_even_if_conflict_does_not|work=Foreign Policy|access-date=12 December 2010|archive-date=3 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903013415/https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/06/how-war-will-end-in-afghanistan-even-if-conflict-does-not/|url-status=dead}}

Education

Reiter received his B.A. with honors in political science from Northwestern University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1994.{{cite web|title=Dan Reiter APSA Candidate Statement|url=http://www.apsanet.org/content_46645.cfm|publisher=The American Political Science Association|access-date=12 December 2010}} He was a John M. Olin postdoctoral fellow in national security at Harvard University from 1994 to 1995.{{Cite web|title=Dan Reiter|url=http://polisci.emory.edu/home/people/biography/reiter-dan.html|access-date=19 January 2021|publisher=Emory University}}

Academic career

Reiter has had a number of articles published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the American Political Science Review and World Politics. His book, How Wars End, was the recipient of a 2010 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association.{{cite web|title=APSA's 2010 Best Book Award, Conflict Processes Section, awarded to How Wars End|url=http://press.princeton.edu/blog/2010/10/02/apsas-2010-best-book-award-conflict-processes-section-awarded-to-how-wars-end/|publisher=Princeton University Press|access-date=12 December 2010|archive-date=28 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928092508/http://press.princeton.edu/blog/2010/10/02/apsas-2010-best-book-award-conflict-processes-section-awarded-to-how-wars-end/|url-status=dead}}

Bibliography

Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances and World Wars (Cornell University Press, 1996)

Democracies at War (Princeton University Press, 2002)

Preventive War and Its Alternatives: The Lessons of History (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S., Army War College, 2006)

How Wars End (Princeton University Press, 2009)

Notes

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