Daniel Bessner
Contact
- dbessner@uw.edu
- Thomson Hall 326
- http://danielbessner.com/
About
Prof. Bessner is accepting new MA students for the 2026-2027 academic year
Daniel Bessner is the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. He is a historian of U.S. foreign relations whose work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, and other venues.
Education
- Duke University, Ph.D. History, 2013
- Duke University, M.A. History, 2010
- Columbia University, B.A. History, 2006
- Jewish Theological Seminary, B.A. Jewish History, 2006
Selected Courses
Selected Publications
Rethinking U.S. World Power -Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations
Publication type:
Book
Co-Editor(s):
Michael Brenes
Publisher:
Springer
Publication Date:
2024
Empire Burlesque -What comes after the American Century?
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Harper's Magazine
Publication Date:
2022
Democracy in Exile -Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Publication Date:
2018
Organizing Complexity -The Hopeful Dreams and Harsh Realities of Interdisciplinary Collaboration at the Rand Corporation in the Early Cold War
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 51, Issue 1
Publication Date:
2015
How Realism Waltzed Off -Liberalism and Decisionmaking in Kenneth Waltz’s Neorealism
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Nicolas Guilhot
Published in:
International Security
Publication Date:
2015
Weimar Social Science in Cold War America -The Case of the Political-Military Game
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
German Historical Institute, Bulletin Supplement 10
Publication Date:
2014
Murray Rothbard, Political Strategy, and the Making of Modern Libertarianism
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Intellectual History Review
Publication Date:
2014
“Rather More than One-Third Had No Jewish Blood” -American Progressivism and German-Jewish Cosmopolitanism at the New School for Social Research, 1933–1939
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Religions
Publication Date:
2012
Toward a Theory of Civil–Military Punishment
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Eric Lorber
Published in:
Armed Forces & Society
Publication Date:
2012
Tender Hands -Terrorism, Women, and Emancipation in Karl Heinzen’s Work
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Terrorismus und Geschlecht: Politische Gewalt in Europa seit dem 19. Jahrhundert
Publication Date:
2012
Karl Heinzen and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Terror
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Michael Stauch
Published in:
Terrorism and Political Violence
Publication Date:
2010
