Stephen Van Evera
Stephen Van Evera teaches international relations at MIT, where he is professor of political science. He received his B.A. in government from Harvard and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include the causes and prevention of war, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. national security policy, and social science methods. He is author of Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science (Cornell, 1997), Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict (Cornell, 1999), and articles on the causes of World War I, nationalism and the war problem, American intervention in the Third World, American defense policy, and Europe's future international relations. During the 1980s he was managing editor of the journal International Security.
Further articles and radio interviews by Professor Van Evera can be found at his Security Studies Program profile page.
Subjects
Selected Articles re: War on Terror
- "The War on Terror: Forgotten Lessons from WWII" Middle East Policy (Vol. XIV, No. 2, Summer 2007) (pdf, 46KB, 10p)
- "Iraq: Canary in a Coal Mine," MIT International Review, Spring 2007 (pdf, 188KB, 4p)
- "Bush Administration, Weak on Terror," Middle East Policy (Vol. XIII, No. 4, Winter 2006.) (pdf, 142KB, 11p)
- "On Every Front: A Strategy for the War On Terror" is one of many papers on broad strategy for American foreign policy and on strategy against al-Qaeda available at the Tobin Project's National Security Working Group web site.
- "Assessing U.S. Strategy in the War on Terror," The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science (Vol. 607, September 2006) (pdf, 76KB, 17p)
- "Israel-Palestine," in Derek S. Reveron and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, eds., Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism ( New York: Palgrave, 2006) (pdf, 93KB, 30p)
- Why U.S. National Security Requires Mideast Peace Audits of the Conventional Wisdom, MIT Center For International Studies, April 2005 (pdf, 210KB, 8p)
- Vital Interest : Winning the War on Terror Requires a Mideast Peace Settlement The American Conservative, March 14th, 2005, p.7 (pdf, 74k, pp. 4)
- Strategy for the Terror War (appeared in Newsday, October 4, 2001) (pdf, 52k, pp. 3)
Other Articles
- "Why States Believe Foolish Ideas: Non-Self-Evaluation By States And Societies," Andrew K. Hanami, ed., Perspectives on Structural Realism (NY Palgrave, 2003): 163-198. (pdf, 120k, pp. 46)
- Militarism (work in progress) (pdf, 328k, pp. 141)
- "Primordialism Lives!", APSA-CP: Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comperative Politics of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Winter 2001): 20-22.
Papers on broad strategy
for American foreign policy and on strategy against al-Qaeda are found at the following website: http://www.tobinproject.org/national_security/

Office: E38-610
Phone: 617-253-0530
email: vanevera@mit.edu
Curriculum Vitae (2/08, pdf)