Ron Krebs
Ronald R. Krebs
Associate Professor
1233 Social Sciences Bldg.
267 19th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612.624.4356
Fax: 612.626.7599
email: rkrebs@umn.edu
Professor Ron Krebs (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2003) conducts research at the juncture of international relations and comparative politics, with particular interests in the origins and consequences of international conflict and military service and in linguistic practices and politics. He is the author of Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship (Cornell University Press, 2006) and is co-editor of In War's Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Professor Krebs is currently working on two major projects: (1) Liberty's Trial: International Conflict and the Health of Democracy, which explores the long-run effects of international conflict on democratic institutions and processes; and (2) Narrative and the Making of US National Security, which seeks to explain the rise and fall of dominant national security narratives in the United States and to show how those narratives have shaped US foreign policy.
Professor Krebs has published articles in International Organization, International Security, the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Armed Forces & Society, Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Survival, and Orbis, as well as in edited volumes. His commentaries have appeared in Foreign Affairs, ForeignPolicy.com, Slate, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, and the Chicago Tribune. He is also the author of a historical monograph, Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy Toward Eastern Europe Under Eisenhower (Texas A & M University Press, 2001).
Professor Krebs was named a McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota. His research has most recently received support from the United States Institute of Peace and from the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellows Program at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also been awarded research fellowships in the past by, among other institutions, the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, the United States Institute of Peace, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, and the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute.
Prof. Krebs is currently an associate editor at the scholarly journal Security Studies. Prior to graduate school, he was an assistant editor at Foreign Affairs.
Ron Krebs' research interests include: international relations theory; international security; the sociology of war and military service; language and politics; and counterterrorism.
