Jeffrey W. Legro

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Jeffrey W. Legro is Compton Professor of World Politics and Chair. He is Co-director of the Governing America in a Global Era Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. A specialist on international relations, Legro has served as a consultant to foundations, think tanks, publishers, and government agencies. He is the author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (2005) and Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II (1995) and a contributor to The Culture of National Security (1996). He is the editor (with Melvyn Leffler) of To Lead the World: U.S. Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008). Legro’s most recent articles include “What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power,” Perspectives on Politics (September 2007) and “The Plasticity of Identity under Anarchy,” European Journal of International Relations (forthcoming 2008). His articles on American foreign policy, international cooperation and conflict, China’s future in world politics, international norms and law, military doctrine and strategy, and the causes of foreign policy ideas and national identity have appeared in Foreign Policy, The American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Security, Perspectives on Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Survival, and Parameters. He is on the editorial board of the Washington Quarterly. He has been awarded fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Institute of Peace, The Ford Foundation, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Institute for the Study of World Politics, and Harvard University’s Olin Institute and Center for Science and International Affairs. Legro received his B.A. from Middlebury College and Ph.D. from UCLA. He previously was on the faculty at the University of Minnesota and has been a Fulbright professor at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing.

Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order

To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine