Faculty

Trubowitz, Peter
Associate Professor

Office: BAT 3.152
Phone: 512-232-7257
trubowitz@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Dr. Trubowitz received his B.A. from Clark University and his Ph.D. from MIT.

Research interests:
Peter Trubowitz specializes in international relations and foreign policy. His current research interests include: electoral politics and foreign policy, political leadership and grand strategy, and Sino-American relations. Dr. Trubowitz has held research and teaching positions at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, UCSD, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Universidad de Chile, and the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) in Mexico City.

Field(s) of Study: International Relations; American Politics

Awards/Honors:
Dr. Trubowitz has received grants and fellowships from various foundations including the John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur and John M. Olin Foundations and the Social Science Research Council. In 2002-03, he was J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) in Beijing, China. In 1999, his book, Defining the National Interest, won the J. David Greenstone Book Award from the American Political Science Association. Dr. Trubowitz has also received the President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award.

Recent Publications:
His publications include the award-winning Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy and various articles, chapters, and opinion pieces on world politics, foreign policy, and American politics. Most recently, Dr. Trubowitz has published "Dead Center: The Demise of Liberal Internationalism in the United States," International Security (Fall 2007); "Grand Strategy for a Divided America," Foreign Affairs (July/ August 2007); and "'Going Bipartisan:' Politics by Other Means," Political Science Quarterly (Fall 2005). He is currently writing a book on how presidents make foreign policy.