Penn State Department of Political Science: Faculty Bios

Peter Forster, Affiliate Instructor
	Contact Information: 115 Mitchell University Park, PA 16802-6200 Office phone: 863-8304 pkf1@psu.edu Office Hours: Please click here for this semester's office hours.

Brief Biography
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. Dr. Forster is currently the Associate Director for Academic Programs in Penn State's World Campus. He has used his background in history and international relations to develop new international initiatives at Penn State that include the first distance learning program to be established in Russia outside of St. Petersburg and Moscow. He also has consulted on the development of national distance education programs in Central Asia and presented papers and written on distance education.

Brief Biography

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.

Dr. Forster is currently the Associate Director for Academic Programs in Penn State's World Campus. He has used his background in history and international relations to develop new international initiatives at Penn State that include the first distance learning program to be established in Russia outside of St. Petersburg and Moscow. He also has consulted on the development of national distance education programs in Central Asia and presented papers and written on distance education.