| Peter Forster, Affiliate Instructor | |
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| Brief Biography | |
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Peter Forster is affiliate faculty in the Department of Political Science and represents the department and the Social Science Research Institute on NATO's Consortium for Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, part of the Partnership for Peace initiative. Although he has participated in a number of the Consortium's activities, he is most active in the Security Sector Reform Working Group. This group's agenda dovetails with his research interest in national security and civil-military relations. Currently, he is pursuing research on civil-military relations in former Soviet Central Asia. He earned a certificate in National Security Studies from Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel in 1989 and received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Penn State in 1997. In addition to national security, he is interested in US Foreign Policy and international relations of the Middle East. Dr. Forster has just completed a co-authored manuscript on the evolution of burden sharing beyond NATO's traditional area of operation. | |