Dr. Bradley A. Thayer

Senior Analyst

Dr. Thayer is an international and national security affairs senior analyst. He has written on a broad range of national security issues, including information warfare, the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation, the origins of wars, terrorism, and United States national security policy.

He is the editor of American National Security Policy: Essays in Honor of William R. Van Cleave (Fairfax, Va.: National Institute Press, forthcoming 2007) and the author of Darwin and International Relations: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004). He is the co-author of American Empire: A Debate (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2006) and America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998).

Dr. Thayer has published articles in Comparative Strategy, Defense News, International Security, and Security Studies, and also is the author of many book chapters in edited collections.

He has been a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a consultant to the Rand Corporation.

Presently, Dr. Thayer is an associate professor in the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies of Missouri State University (located in Fairfax, Va.). Before joining the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, he taught at Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota.

He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago. He was granted a B.A. degree (cum laude) in philosophy and a B.A. degree (cum laude) in economics and political science from the University of Arizona.

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