Peter D. Feaver is a professor of political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 at Duke University

Duke University

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 and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. He recently returned from a sabbatical in the Bush administration

George W. Bush administration

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, as a special advisor for strategic planning and institutional reform on the National Security Council

United States National Security Council

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. He is a leading scholar in civil-military relations

Civil-military relations

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.

Feaver earned his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and his undergraduate degree from Lehigh University

Lehigh University

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. Feaver also served as Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control at the National Security Council

United States National Security Council

The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...

 during the Clinton administration. He is also a lieutenant commander

Lieutenant Commander

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 in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

External links

• Feaver's Duke homepage
• Feaver's current blog at ForeignPolicy.com
  • Feaver's bio at ForeignPolicy.com
• Bush's Iraq speech echoes a new voice, The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  , December 4, 2005
• Bush Words Reflect Public Opinion Strategy, Washington Post, June 30, 2005