Dan Lindley
(BA from Tufts University and Ph.D. from MIT) is an associate professor of political science, he worked in Washington, D.C. for Congressman Ratchford, the Center for Defense Information, the Federation of American Scientists, and the Brookings Institution. Lindley's book, Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007. He has published and spoken on U.N. peacekeeping, internal and ethnic conflict, the Concert of Europe, the Cyprus problem and Aegean security, and pre-emptive and preventive war, with articles in: Contemporary Security Policy, International Studies Perspectives, Security Studies, International Peacekeeping, Defense and Security Analysis, Hellenic Studies/Études Helléniques, and PS: Political Science and Politics. He is currently conducting research on the prevalence of pre-emptive and preventive war, and on the extent to which miscalculation and misperception have come to dominate states' decisions for war. He lectured at MIT and was a fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He started as an assistant professor in political science at the University of Notre Dame in Fall, 1999, where he is also a fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.
Advising specialties:
Graduate programs in political science and foreign affairs
Research and teaching interests:
International relations; foreign policy; security studies
Contact Information
Email: Daniel.A.Lindley.3@nd.edu
Academic Office: 448 Decio Faculty Hall
Phone: (574) 631-3226
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556