Peter Liberman
Adjunct Research Scholar of International and Public Affairs
Personal Details
Focus areas: International politics, security studies, intelligence, public foreign policy opinion, political psychology.
Peter Liberman is Professor of Political Science at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is a Research Affiliate of Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Peter is also the author of Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies (Princeton University Press, 1996), as well as of numerous articles on nuclear proliferation (focusing on South Africa) and on public attitudes about the use of military force and coercive interrogation. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, Time Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences, the Carnegie Corporation, the Ploughshares Fund, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.
Peter earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Reed College in 1984 and a Ph.D in political science from MIT in 1992.
Education
- PhD in Political Science, MIT
- BA in Philosophy, Reed College