Ryan Grauer is an Associate Professor of International Affairs and MPIA Program Director in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. His research examines the sources and use of military power in the international arena. He is the author of Commanding Military Power (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and his work has been published in World Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, and the Journal of Global Security Studies, among other outlets. At present, Grauer is working on projects examining the creation, organization, and operation of multinational coalitions in battle; the causes and consequences of soldier surrender in war; and the scope and intensity of uses of force by democracies. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and his BA from the University of Chicago. He has previously been an Academic Visitor in Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.
Courses Taught
- PIA 2468 - Choosing Nuclear Weapons
- PIA 2348 - How to Make War
- PIA 2434 - Civil-Military Relations
- PIA 3019 - Field Seminar in International Affairs
- PIA 2363 - International History
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
- M.A., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
- B.A., Political Science, University of Chicago, 2005
Education & Training
- Understanding Battlefield Coalitions, New York: Routledge, 2023. (edited, with Rosella Cappella Zielinski)
- "The Democratic Embargo: Regime Type and Proxy War," European Journal of International Relations 48 no. 2 (2022): 444-470. (with Dominic Tierney)
- “A Century of Coalitions in Battle: Incidence, Composition, and Performance, 1900-2003,” Journal of Strategic Studies 45, no. 2 (2022): 186-210. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski)
- Military organizations
- International security
- Military history
