Peter Krause

Associate Professor

Political Science Department

Profile

Professor Krause’s research and writing focuses on Middle East politics, terrorism, insurgency, national movements, and international security. Krause has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout the Middle East and has recently published two books: Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win, and a co-edited volume entitled Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics. He has published articles on the effectiveness of terrorism and insurgency, U.S. intervention in the Syrian civil war, the politics of division within the Palestinian national movement, the war of ideas in the Middle East, and a reassessment of U.S. operations at Tora Bora in 2001. Professor Krause has offered his analysis in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, and he has conducted television interviews with CNN, MSNBC, Fox-Boston, CBS-Boston, NBC-Boston, ABC-Boston, NECN, and Al-Jazeera English, as well as with radio and print media.