Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey 
, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
Elizabeth N. Saunders
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Monroe 468, 2115 G Street, N.W.
Phone: (202) 994-1437
Fax: (202) 994-7743
E-mail: esaunder@gwu.edu
Web: http://home.gwu.edu/~esaunder
Education:
Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise:
International security, U.S. foreign policy
Background:
Elizabeth N. Saunders is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Her research and teaching interests focus on international security and foreign policy. Her book, Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions, was published by Cornell University Press in 2011. Her doctoral dissertation, "Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions," was a co-recipient of Yale University's John Addison Porter Prize, as well as the award for best dissertation in strategic studies from the Committee for the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy.
Professor Saunders has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University; a visiting scholar at the American Political Science Association's Centennial Center; a Brookings Institution Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies; and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her work has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Security, the American Journal of Political Science, and International Studies Review.